More Rogers family located

I was searching through some old Oil City newspapers online when I came across an obituary.  The obituary was for my great uncle Bert Harry Rogers.  To my surprise I discovered that even though he passed away at 24 years of age of TB he had been married and had two sons!  All these years I had thought he was single when he passed away.
The search was on, if he had two sons I wondered if any information about them could be found.  My first search turned up that Bert's first son Bert Jr had passed way in California.  Then I managed to locate his second son, Don.  After some additional digging I was able to locate Don's son.  I managed to find an email address for Don's son and sent an email with some family details.

Next thing I know I had a response and he knew of my great grandfather Frank Rogers!  Next I was told that his father Don wanted to talk to me so I phoned and we spent more than an hour and a half on the phone.  It was great!  I've since spoken with Bert Jr's son, and Don's children.  The family is alive and well and we have new 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins!

Rogers Family

A brick wall as it's called in genealogy has started to fall for the Rogers family!

A couple weeks ago I decided to search the familysearch.org website to see if there was anything new. There sure was, the had the images for two of Frank J Rogers my great grandfathers marriages and two images of my 2nd great grandparents marriage, Harry Lewis Rogers and Carrie Fisher. The later provided me with the names of my 3rd great grand parents, Joseph J. Rogers and Elizabeth Lewis. I was also able to locate the death certificate for Joseph J. Rogers who passed away in Hamilton, Ontario.

I decided to subscribe to a website called newspaperarchive.com and so far it has been well worth the money. I've located obituaries for various branches of the family including the Rogers family of Oil City, PA.

I have also been in touch with a new cousin related on the Lewis side of the family.

Ron