The Story Behind GenealogyBuff.com
GenealogyBuff.com was created by Bill Cribbs as a suggestion by his ailing wife for a website to help beginning genealogists get started. Bill announced the story of how he got this website started in a press release today.
Bill works as a Pressure Vessel Inspector, and visits oil refineries throughout the State of Texas. One day in 1989, while visiting a refinery, he met another man with the same last name as his. The ensuing conversation revealed that the two were distantly related. This got Bill started on researching his family history.
After spending years researching the Cribbs family lineage, he had pieced together a family tree with more than 3,000 names. When he discovered the Internet, he decided to publish his research on a website. This opened his eyes to a whole new world of research and publishing.
In 1998, he launched a website called "Obituary Links Page" providing an organized directory of links to online obituary transcriptions. Two years later he launched "Obituary Central" which provides an online search engine of obituary records across the Internet.
In 1998, Bill's wife Tina was diagnosed with breast cancer. For the next three years, Bill took time off from his websites and focused his time as Tina's primary caregiver. In 2001, her cancer went into remission, and Bill continued with his websites.
However in 2004, more devasting news came as it was discovered the cancer returned in Tina's lymph nodes, and spread into her lungs, liver and bones. It was during this time that Tina inspired him to begin a new site for beginning researchers. GenealogyBuff.com was born.
GenealogyBuff publishes transcriptions of records with an emphasis on obituaries, including search engines to find records across the Internet. It has since grown to become Bill's most popular website.
Now juggling a fulltime job as his wife's caregiver, a father of four children, a refinery inspector by day, and a webmaster by night, Cribbs' accepts his challenges with resolve.
Bill works as a Pressure Vessel Inspector, and visits oil refineries throughout the State of Texas. One day in 1989, while visiting a refinery, he met another man with the same last name as his. The ensuing conversation revealed that the two were distantly related. This got Bill started on researching his family history.
After spending years researching the Cribbs family lineage, he had pieced together a family tree with more than 3,000 names. When he discovered the Internet, he decided to publish his research on a website. This opened his eyes to a whole new world of research and publishing.
In 1998, he launched a website called "Obituary Links Page" providing an organized directory of links to online obituary transcriptions. Two years later he launched "Obituary Central" which provides an online search engine of obituary records across the Internet.
In 1998, Bill's wife Tina was diagnosed with breast cancer. For the next three years, Bill took time off from his websites and focused his time as Tina's primary caregiver. In 2001, her cancer went into remission, and Bill continued with his websites.
However in 2004, more devasting news came as it was discovered the cancer returned in Tina's lymph nodes, and spread into her lungs, liver and bones. It was during this time that Tina inspired him to begin a new site for beginning researchers. GenealogyBuff.com was born.
GenealogyBuff publishes transcriptions of records with an emphasis on obituaries, including search engines to find records across the Internet. It has since grown to become Bill's most popular website.
Now juggling a fulltime job as his wife's caregiver, a father of four children, a refinery inspector by day, and a webmaster by night, Cribbs' accepts his challenges with resolve.
"I do it all for Tina. She's the love of my life and I want her to be taken care of. The sites help to pay for her treatments with the few Ancestry.com commissions that I make and my job provides some health insurance."Bill has published a page dedicated to his wife Tina.
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