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, 2006 and try to update it monthly so I urge you to check back often.
I've just been looking over my previous posting (back on September 1st, I'm sorry to say) and I find that I had been planning to get all of the new material I had waiting for generation 6 posted to the site by the end of the year. And I am happy to say that, in spite of the fact that I missed both the October and November updated, I have finished that task a month early! It has been quite a large update. In addition to the approximately 300 new pieces of source material I've added this time (for about 80 families), I've had to update the family pages for about 50 families due to new material I've added to my data base.
Much of the new material has come from several people who have contacted me with information about their branch of the family so you will see many updates to the Olive Vibbert - Warren Buckland branch due to the kindness of Steve Wiley, one of their descendants. Likewise, my longtime Vib research buddy, Kathy Kuroda, has passed along a bunch of new information she received from a non-Vib researcher on the Mary Adeline (Vibbard) and Isaac Lane family. And this past summer, I received quite a bit of new material from John Kitchell who descends from Elisha Vibbert through a New Jersey branch.
So even though I sometimes get quite overwhelmed, I am very grateful to the above people and so many others of you who pass along small pieces of their own family history that add up to a clearer and more complete big picture.
This will be the last update to the site as it currently exists. As I mentioned last time, I will be freezing the site in order to prepare for a major site redesign. The conversion will take quite some time but the freeze allows me to continue to make the information I have posted up to now available to new researchers and those of you who already use the site. Please continue to send me any new information you have to contribute or any errors you see.
The main purpose of the redesign is to reduce the amount of time I have to spend doing the updates but it's not just about me - the less time it takes for me, the quicker you will see new material. The new site will be built on a data base that will be automatically updated monthly to show all the latest data I have. And freeing up my time means I will be able to spend more of it scanning and researching.
There are also some secondary reasons for the changes - the new design will include full indexing of all names and it will allow me to add more families. Currently, the site stops with generation 6 because some generation 7 families still have living members. But the new site will use standard practices for masking information about living persons thus allowing me to show more families.
I appreciate your patience while these changes are being built. There will hopefully be no interruptions of service to the old site during the development process and when the new version is ready it will replace the old one using the same address. Although I do not have a target date for the cutover yet, I will update this page to give you progress reports as often as possible.
Thanks for all of your interest and support over the past six years. I hope that the 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.
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 keep in mind 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)