I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here.

While finding info on very recent ancestors isn't usually as difficult as finding info on very distant ancestors, it can present its own set of challenges. The biggest of which is the fact that there will be fewer people with that ancestor in common with you and therefore there is less opportunity to benefit from the research of others. Often, you will have to do more of your own work in tracking down things like birth and death certificates, census records, etc. vs. just a simple web search on a genealogy site. However, often, as with this individual, it is still pretty easy to find info online. Though I don't have a death date, William Paisley Roberts was born in 1922. His wife died in 2008. FamilySearch (and I'm sure other sites) still had census records, marriage records and more.

I'm still exploring GedSite, a program that takes a gedcom file and converts it into html and The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding which is web based and requires a setup with a web server, php and mysql. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG but I'll get back to GedSite eventually. When it comes to converting this stuff to web pages, every piece of software available seems to have advantages and disadvantages and it is hard to settle on just one. One of the things I like about TNG is how you can easily switch between different chart styles. I've shown a bunch of different ancestor chart styles already and I'll show some others soon. As soon as I pick an individual with a decent number of descendants (and there are none for this person), I'll start showing some of the descendant charts. The above chart is an ancestor chart from Gramps.

Gramps calculates William P. Roberts to be my sixth cousin three times removed.