A Website for Descendants of
John Vibert and Mary Neell
married February 26, 1705/6 in Saybrook Connecticut
Welcome everyone. My name is Ann Vibert Wuelfing. This site is intended to extend the research I have been working on for the last nine years (with much help from others, some related and some not) on the family that descended from the marriage of John Vibert and Mary Neell in Saybrook, Connecticut on February 26, 1705/6, 300 years ago. I opened the site in February, 2003 and try to update it monthly so I urge you to check back often.
I have just completed the second consecutive monthly update for this year and hope to be able to continue the trend back towards my normal monthly schedule. So far, these updates have been occurring a little behind schedule and I expect that to continue for another month or so at least. But I hope by the end of the summer to be able to have the updates made on the first of the month as before. That way, those of you who want to check back regularly can do so more easily.
As with last month, this update is a limited one. I have set up new family pages for 15 6th generation families and updated another 17 family pages in the 5th and 6th generations. I have now eliminated the backlog and, as far as I know, there are pages on the site for all families through the 6th generation.
Starting next month, I will be making changes to the site structure to enable me to maintain it more easily and to prepare for eventual changes to the look of it. To begin with, I will be starting to display all of the documents that relate to a family on a single page instead of having separate pages for census, VRs, military, etc. like I do now. I'll begin the conversion process with the new families I've added this month and last, then work my way back through the other families, picking up all new documents that haven't been added yet as I go.
Once these initial changes have been completed, I will be able to eliminate many of the buttons from the family pages and start converting the site to a cleaner look. But all of this will take some time to complete. In the meantime, I will continue to add new source documents to the site as quickly as I can. I appreciate all of your interest and support and hope that the updated site will continue to be of use to you all. For those of you who have contributed material, a special thanks. For those who have not, please consider doing so.
Perhaps you are thinking that no one else will be interested in your grandfather's death certificate. But that document may well provide a mother's maiden name for a descendant of one of his siblings. Or it may mention someone as an informant that no one knew was related to him. Or it may lead someone else to a family cemetery.
And even if nothing else is accomplished by sharing your documents, please consider that they provide another way to preserve them for posterity. If your records are ever lost or destroyed, there will be an extra layer of backup provided by the website itself. Accidents do happen and nature takes its course but your documents can live on if you share them. So please consider doing this for yourself and for others.
Please get in touch and do your part! You can reach me by email at annvwuelfing@thevibsite.com.
(including Viberts, Vibberts, Vibarts, Vibbarts and Vibbards and other variations)