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Person · Thomas W. Roberts
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationThomas W. Roberts
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 13 May 1887
- Died
- 25 March 1905
- Parents
- Henry S. Roberts
- Sources
- 1
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1887
Born 13 May 1887, Bellaire, Ohio; died 25 March 1905, Wheeling, West Virginia
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Parents—
his Ohio birth record and West Virginia death record both name them
S92In the record
Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents
- S921900 US Federal Census — Henry Roberts household, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. Henry Roberts, 45, Head, b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, Glass Blower, married 25 years; Rose A Roberts, 45, Wife; Etta, 19; Florence, 17; Sam, 15; Thomas, 13. Henry's parents both b. Ohio. NARA T623, Roll 1769, Page 10, ED 0125. Ancestry collection 7602, record 62778072. Image examined, read 24 September 2026: 1590 Warren St.; Rose A. born Nov 1854, W. Va., both her parents b. Ohio, mother of 13 children, 7 living; Etta b. Feb 1881, Florence Feb 1883, Sam Mar 1885, Thomas May 1887. Anna Blanche is not in this household. Only four of Rose's seven living children are at home, so a daughter of seven living elsewhere is consistent with her own count. Siblings Etta (Henrietta), Florence, Sam, and Thomas confirmed.