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(Source:  Rock Springs Rocket, 26 December 1919, online at Wyoming Newspaper Project.)   The question is good enough for 1919 and it is good enough for 2014: What will YOU write? This coming year, will you: write regularly in your journal write your life sketch write your autobiography write stories about your parents write the history of your family write letters or emails to family members write personal essays about things you have learned

Always make a copy.

Be Prepared to Help Census Enumerator The actual work of taking the United States census for 1920 will begin on January 2 nd .   The enumerators will make a house to house canvas to secure the information which they are required to collect.   It will be a matter of great assistance to the enumerators and will enable them to accomplish their work more rapidly and more accurately if the members of each family will prepare themselves with the following information in advance and have it ready for the enumerators when they come. First :   The name and age of each member of the family, place of birth, education, place of birth of parents and native tongue. Second :   In case of a farm or ranch the amount of hay, live stock, butter, and eggs, milk, fruit, vegetables, minerals, if any, and the value of all products o the farm or ranch—a detailed statement of all the products during the year 1919 should be prepared for the enumerator. Third :   If you are going to be

Kemmerer Republican, 24 December 1920 Rock Springs Rocket, 20 December 1918, page 6

Published:  Rock Springs Rocket, 29 March 1941

Family Tree Magazine July/August 2013, page 43-47 1-       Customize your views.   2-       Open multiple family files at the same time.   This is helpful if you are reviewing a GEDCOM from another researcher. 3-       Create new fact types.   You can create custom facts that are not in your program’s list of predefined fact type. 4-       Speed up source citation.   Software can help you cite sources efficiently. 5-       Find relatives faster.   By using software tools to search by name, date, place or other criteria. 6-       Search for relatives online.   Most software will automatically, when directed, do a basic online search for names. 7-       Create to-do lists.   You can use your software to organize your genealogy to-do’s. 8-       Attach media to your tree.   Some programs will allow you to attach a media item to a specific fact or event.   You may also attach photographs. 9-       Put your family tree online.   Posting family information on line

This was published in the Rock Springs Rocket, 19 December 1948.

--#164, 188, 58 Time Means Nothing at City Hall "Time means nothing at the Rock Springs city hall.   It hasn’t for 55 years! For the past 55 years, the four clocks adorning the tower of the city municipal structure have been halted at 8:20. Many person in Rock Springs thought the locks were just in need of repair, but workmen preparing for the installation of new chimes in the city hall found that the timepieces were for purposes of adornment only.   The hands were nailed in position and not the least semblance of clock works was discovered in the tower.   When the city structure was completed in 1895, the clocks were installed and the hands fixed in position at 8:20.   During the years a legend has arisen which contends that all dummy clock faces are stopped at 8:20 in commemoration of the time at which President Abraham Lincoln died. Two Rock Springs jewelers refute this story.   They say that clock hands are affixed in that position because it makes

“Knowing how family history impacts us can help us decide why we are keeping records.     Knowing those motives will help us decide what to record and why.”   (RootsTech 2013, Friday, 22 March 2013)

Always search the siblings of your ancestor, after all they lead back to the same parents and grandparents.