Shorter pieces than the full family history — focused looks at a person, a place, or a piece of published work.
On the nation's 250th July 4th, a look at the life of Des Arc blacksmith and wagon maker John Wesley Robinson — forge, wagon factory, grocery, and the caskets he built by hand for neighbors who needed them. Originally published in the Wayne County Journal Banner.
Read the storyIsaac Robinson crossed three states and married at least three times — maybe four. For years, online trees gave him a wife he never had at all — a fully cited look at what's proven, what's probable, and the marriage that turned out to belong to a different man entirely.
Read the storyAbsalom Parker Robinson is documented cleanly for fifty years — five censuses, two marriages, a death certificate — and almost not at all before that. A fully cited look at what's known, what's family memory, and what's still an open question about his origins.
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