The members of the Robertson Tree featured in this website are descendants of Alan (1872-1942) and Charlotte (1867-1913) Robertson from Liverpool. But it does trace the lineage back approximately 200 year before Alan.
This website was created in answer to several family members requesting I re-create the former pages on a web service that used to host the family pictures. That web service literally crashed and burned in March of 2021. This version will hopefully remain here until I am no longer, at which point the pictures will no longer be available.
The website contains a copy of the Family Tree Book that I published in 2011 and revised a number of times, the latest version being 2019 when I located a missing “branch” of the family. The book was a recapitulation of a digital version done in 2003 using 110 interconnected "slide shows". The book version of course could not contain the "slide shows" that contained audio. Those "slide shows" have been resurrected, converted to video and included here.
I did not do the research on the Family Tree, that was done by "Aunt Tommy" aka "AT".
The family picture "galleries" are digital copies of pictures collected from various sources, grouped by family member. There will be duplicate pictures where more than one individual is in a picture. The picture collection is rough and somewhat thrown together. The 2,600+ pictures are from 1700's to 2003 when the Tree was created. A few more pictures were added in later editions. While the pictures were looked at on the other website for about 10 years, there were no comments re the roughness, so I only took the time to add names which appear in the captions of each picture when moused over or clicked on to enlarge the picture.
Not all the pictures that are in the Book, will be in the photo collections.
Please note:
- pictures are not always in chronological order
- dating of pictures is sometimes a guesstimate
- not all pictures have been fully digitally processed. They can be on request.
- there are some near duplicate pictures, but I didn’t select one from amongst them as there might be a story behind on behind particular one.
- it is certainly very evident that the first born has the most pictures taken.
- I collected pictures from all family members but an overwhelming number of the pictures are from my direct family. They were posted before, and now, because I had them.
You can’t tell the players without a program: (“pg” refers to page number in the Book)
“Great” = Mary Catherine Robertson pg 05
“Connie” = Connie McCallum friend of Phyllis from New Brunswick
“Doug” = Doug Heard pg 15-02 , Doug Robertson pg 12-04
“Douglas”= Douglas Robertson pg 05
“Jim” = Jim (Dick’s brother) pg 05, Jim (Dick’s son)pg 14-04
“Ann” = Ann (Jim's, Dick’s son, wife) pg 24.02, Ann (Dick brother Jim’s wife) pg 12-04
“AT” = Aunt Tommy pg A04-04-01
“Geoff” = Geoff Jim’s son pg 24-02, Geoff Muir pg A05-02
“Stella”, “F”= Friends of Great
“Ralph” is pronounced Rafe pg 11-02
Jim Robertson
Ottawa 2021