This month’s 12 for’25 is a bit different because I’ve already done a deep dive to fill in as many details about my ancestor’s life as I can. This lengthy life sketch is the compilation of all those facts into George Rogers Tarbox’s life story. He is one of my 3X great grandfathers and one for whom a lot is known AND I am the caretaker of many family photos which have been passed down to descendants.
Today, in Part 1, I’ll share the Cover Sheet (used when I create a PDF of the entire sketch to share with descendants) and the Life Timeline for George.
The cover sheet is simple and only identifies George in time and place.
As can be seen from the timeline, quite a bit is known about the life and times of George:
Next up, I’ll begin to tell the life story of George Rogers Tarbox and bring George and his family to life.
Did you use genealogy software to generate the timeline or a spreadsheet?
I created it the old fashioned way – by myself using Word.
A timeline does help with creating a life’s sketch. I need to create more of them.
I shared this sketch with my cousin. She absolutely loved it and is sharing it with her children. She never knew where our grandfather, Vernon Tarbox Adams, got such a unique middle name. Now she not only knows, she knows what the Tarbox family looked like.
Exc ellent work! I like the timeline.