The Vibsite - Vibert, Vibbert, Vibart, Vibbart, Vibbard

Hi everyone

This month the fourth installment of 300 documents have been added for generation 7. These documents are completely new to the site since the original site only covered generations 1-6. The list below shows which families have new documents this month. Please also note the information in the Known Problems section. As always, on this site each family is considered to be headed by the Vib-related person, regardless of sex and all documents are tied to this person.

Also, any changes made to the data in my master file have been uploaded into this site's data base as well as included in the PDF book version of the Descendants of John Vibert and Mary Neell which can be accessed using the last button to the left of this section.

For the remainder of this year, I plan to continue moving all of the documents I already have in digital formats to the site, starting with generation 7 and eventually moving on to generations 8-11. I expect to be able to add about 300 documents each month for a total of about 3000 new documents to be added during 2012 to the 3400 documents already on the site. So it will be a very busy year and I hope you will all stop back from time to time to see the progress and perhaps to send along some new data.

In the meantime, I wish you all a safe and happy 2012.

Ann Vibert Wuelfing

Click here for the new Vibsite or read on for more background.

More Information About this Site

More Data:

The new site generates pages "on the fly" from a database which contains every person I have data about. It protects the privacy of living persons by not displaying personal data anyone who has no date of death and is less than 110 years old. All persons deemed to be living are shown simply as Living + surname with no other data.

The database itself contains the latest information I have entered into my own FamilyTreeMaker database, updated monthly. Also, some new information on female branches will be available. These include the ancestry of Dorcas Dix, wife of James Vibert (generation 2), Lovina Wrisley, wife of Timothy Vibert (generation 4), Nancy Loomis, wife of Oliver Vibert (generation 5), Margaret Fallow, wife of Watson Vibert (generation 6), Marjorie R. Monteith, wife of Robert K. Vibert (generation 7) and Eileen M. Hawkes, wife of John Vibert (generation 8). Unfortunately, I have little information on Mary Neell, wife of John Vibert (generation 1) and Betty (--?--), wife of John Vibert (generation 3) at this time and no information on their ancestry.

More Documents:

The site currently contains copies of documents pertaining to many people in generations 1-6 and more documents will soon be added for generations 7-11. In the most recent monthly site update documents were added for the following families, all in generation 7:

Generation 7

John Bradford Vibbard
John Charles Fremont Wilds
John Crosley Miller
John McCoy
John Philetus Longwell
John Stuart Parsons
John S. Vibbert
John V. Harris
John V. Tibbetts
John Wesley Cochran
John W. L. Vibbert
John W. Vibbird
Jonathan Leroy Vibbert
Joseph Alvin Vibbert
Joseph D. Booker
Josephine (Vibbert) Ransom
Joseph Laurence Vibbert
Joseph Watson Vibert
Joseph Wesley Vibbard
Kathryn Elizabeth (Vibbard) Brown
Kenneth Vibbert
Laura J. (Harlow) Knowlton
Leita Estrella (Vibberts) West
Lelah (Tolles) Wheeler
Lena A. (Vibbard) McRorie
Lena A. (Weed) Alward
Leo Frederick Vibbert
Leona Marion (Vibbert) Williams
Leonard Northrup Vibbard
Leonidas Chandler Pelton
Lester Albert Vibberts
Lester J. Vibbert
Lewis Sumner Vibbard
Louisa J. (Harding) Trumbull
Louis Vandon Vibert
Lucy J. (Vibbert) (Grow) Brewer
Lyman Edgar Van Horne
Lyman W. Vibbert
Mable Adeline (Vibbard) Post
Margaret E. (Buckland) (Cook) Baker
Margaret H. (Viberts) Meyn
Margaret (Lorom) Doerr
Margaret M. (Vibbert) Yates
Margaret (Tenney) Warner
Marian Louise (Vibert) Symington
Marion McClehon Vibbert
Martha (McNeil) Klein
Martin V. Vibbert
Mary Ann Catherine (Vibbert) Eldridge
Mary Ann (McCoy) Arment
Mary Ann (Vibbert) Strope
Mary D. (Elwood) Weldon
Mary Frances (Vibbert) Wood
Mary Harris (Teller) Batting
Mary Howard (Vibbert) Keasbey
Mary Murphy (Anderson) Hale
Mattie W. (Vibbert) Bundy
Maude Almina (Vibbard) Howard
Melvina (Vibbert) Evans
Milford Angus Vibbard
Myra (Holt) Russell
Nancy Jane (Vibbart) Tankersley
Nettie E. (Lyman) Randal
Norman Chauncey Vibbard

More Features:

In addition, the new site design includes full indexing and searching for all names - a major feature that was missing from the old site. Other features of the site include the ability for each visitor to bookmark persons they return to often, better display of sources and notes, built-in ancestor and descendant charts and improved support of printing.

A popular feature of the old site is also available in the new one but in a slightly different form. All documents relating to each descendant of John Vibert and Mary Neell can be found displayed in the lower part of their page where they can be opened and downloaded.

Finally, in addition to providing a Contact Us direct email facility on the new home page, the new site has a great Suggest feature on the Person pages which allows you to email me information about that person. It automatically generates a subject heading of "Proposed Change: [name of person] and embeds specific information in the body of the message to guide me back to exactly the page you were looking at.

Known problems:

I will be making some additional changes to the new site in the near future to correct problems.

At this point, the most serious issue is that some people who are obviously dead are erroneously being treated as Living. That causes their first name to be displayed as "Living" and all of their personal data to be suppressed. It is not supposed to happen if the person has a Date of Death or if their Date of Birth is more than 100 years ago but in some cases it is. I am working with Ancestry.com on a resolution for this problem but there is no fix for it yet.

Another known problems is duplication of facts and notes for certain individuals. This problem has largely been eliminated but there are still a few duplicated facts and notes I have not yet cleaned up. Please be patient - these will gradually be eliminated over time.

There are also a few adjustments I need to make to the color scheme but I just have not had time to make them. They have no effect on the site functionality.

Finally, some of the menu functions on the new home page are not working yet - there are no entries under Most Wanted and Reports yet, the Cemeteries link is not yet connected to my cemetery pictures and the Dates and Anniversaries link is working, but very slow. The What's New link is also working but it is not providing any useful information since all the data is considered new by the database. If you spot any other problems, please let me know.

Still available here:

The PDF book version of the Descendants of John Vibert and Mary Neell is still available from this screen as before and will continue to be updated each month until it is moved to the new site. The photo galleries of cemetery pictures are also available here for now but will not be updated. Eventually all the pictures will be moved to the new site as well.

Thanks:

Thanks for all of your interest and support over the past seven - years. I hope that the new site will continue to be of use to you all in the future. For those of you who have contributed material, a special thanks. For those who have not, please consider doing so.

Ann

And now over to the new:

Please note that once you are on the new home page, you will need to search for a name to get started. You can start by searching for your ancestor and then moving up and down the tree by clicking on the links (as in the old site) or you can start at the top by typing in John Vibert. I recommend that you click the Bookmark button when you are looking at pages you plan to return to - this will allow you to go directly to those pages in the future without searching. Enjoy!

Click here for the new Vibsite

(and including Viberts, Vibberts, Vibarts, Vibbarts and Vibbards and other variations)