(Edited forward from published book, fourth edition 2019)
The following pages take the reader through the Family Tree from Cornelius Robertson born in the 1600's down through the generations to 2019.
Drawing on extensive research by “Aunt Tommy” (AT) (page 04.01) and Douglas, (page 06.01) my father’s brother, the original version of the material contained in this book was “published” in 2003 by myself in the form of over 100 interactive digital audio visual presentations. Virtually all members of the family under the Alan lineage (see page 05) received copies to run on their computers.
For many reasons, I decided to convert the material to hard copy of which this book is the product. (I recognize this is opposite to today’s trends of going from hard copy to digital.)
Updates were requested, and where provided, have been made to the 2003 material. Some re-alignment of the pages has also been done as have some typos been corrected. There were a number of the 2003 presentations done by narrations of letters or spoken recollections. Unfortunately that aspect could not be carried through and thus the voices of some of the family have been lost to this version. The letters and transcripts of the recollections however have been included.
While a majority of the book deals with the generations before today, there is a heavy pictorial aspect of the book dealing with the current generations of my direct family (see page 14.04). Throughout the book I used my own photographs, copies from family photo albums, plus photos provided in response to requests for photographic material from everyone.
While consistency in both the content and format of information presented was sought, some inconsistencies might have survived various reviews and edits.
Concurrent with the publication of this book, a second book, “The Collected Writings of Dick Robertson”, is also being published. A good portion of those writings deal with events within Dick’s immediate family but some also deal with events within the larger family, that of Alan Robertson (see page 05). Two appendices from the digital Family Tree have been moved to the Collected Writings book.
Jim Robertson, Ottawa, 2019
Update to above: A second supplementary book has since been published: "Selected Letters and More, James Alan Stone Robertson"