Category Archives: Rigg Family

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  Richard Collins Rigg and Nancy Jane Taylor – pioneers, Civil War POW, land speculators

  Posted on January 22, 2015 by Jill in Rigg Family.

  I put together a bio and some photos of our Rigg great-great-grandparents, including some quotes from my dad, Robert W. Rigg, Sr., and from his uncle, Rollie Robert Rigg. Hopefully all of you Rigg kin will enjoy getting to know them a bit better. I’ve loved retracing their footsteps a bit in Kentucky, Missouri, and […]

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  Added some Rigg family stories

  Posted on November 13, 2014 by Jill in Rigg Family.

  Stories give life to our heritage, and I so wish I was a better story teller.  (Too bad I didn’t work harder in my creative writing classes…) I thought I would start with the easiest, and share a few things about my father, Robert Williams Rigg, Sr.,  who passed away in August.  As it turns […]

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  Family locations plotted on google maps

  Posted on November 9, 2014 by Jill in Rigg Family.

  Yay!  I figured out how to geocode the locations on all the people on our pedigree charts/family group sheets.  Now when you click on someone, you can see a google map showing where they lived. Very cool!

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  Pedigree charts uploaded – hurray!

  Posted on November 7, 2014 by Jill in Rigg Family.

  I worked for a few days on cleaning up my pedigree chart and loading it to my site. I also started adding some basic photos. Then I learned to index it and submit to some genealogy search engines like gendex. Check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions to make it […]

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  The Tipping Point

  Posted on November 6, 2014 by Jill in Rigg Family.

  I’ve made a few attempts from time to time over the years — tried to figure out how to share and collaborate on family history research.  I’ve dabbled in different sites and systems.  Nothing seemed to “do the trick.” However, these past few months our family was caught by surprise at the death of my […]

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