Welcome everyone. My name is Ann Vibert Wuelfing. This site is intended to extend the research I have been working on for the last eight 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 plan to update the site monthly - the updates will be available on the first of each month - so I urge you to check back often.
I can't believe it's already May - and I'm behinder than ever! I have no new research summaries and no new families but I have managed to get a few updates done. I hope to be able to do better next month. In the meanwhile, I hope you find something useful in this latest version. Thanks, again, to all of you who have sent me material. If you don't see your contributions here yet, I will hopefully get them linked in soon.
And, once again, I would like to encourage any of you reading this who may have vital record documents (including cemetery records and pictures) for your own Vib ancestors to consider sending copies to me for inclusion on the site. Although I have a lot of documents, many VRs are still only accessible on the local level and I just do not have the time or money to search for all of them. But if you all contribute what you have, I will be able to make the site more useful to others.
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.
Editor's Corner - May 1, 2008