Roberts Roots & Branches

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Park Hotel, Rock Springs, Wyoming, September 2013, RR&B 19 Elk Street, Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming The Park Hotel opened in 1914 and was the hub of Western Wyoming until the late 1950’s. It was the largest and most modern hotel in the city. Advertisements boasted of hot and cold water in each of its 38 rooms, twenty of which had private baths and toilets. The fourth floor was added in the 1920’s. The Park Hotel catered to commercial men and automobile tourists traveling the Lincoln Highway. The hotel had a boisterous barroom and a sedate restaurant with sparking white table cloths. Rock Springs Miner, 30 January 1914, page 1, Wyoming Newspaper Project online. One memory of the Park Hotel, is related by Thomas P. Cullen, “One summer afternoon while walking up Elk Street toward the C Street Crossing, my attention was drawn to the small crowd assembled near the north end of the Park Hotel. A slight man, of short stature, stood rolling up his pantlegs...

Do you ever have questions while watching "Who Do You Think You Are?"   I have.  I wonder: do the celebrities get copies of the research including any documents that were found are the reactions genuine and in real time who (the tv show or the celeb) chooses which line to follow for the show who pays for the travel what if the researchers hit a brick wall do the researchers prep the celebrities before they are filmed what if the family secrets are too dark to tell (so far none have been and there have been some dark history revealed!) has a celebrity ever backed out because they were ashamed or embarrassed by their ancestors has the show ever researched two celebrities who were related have family members of the celebrities ever nixed the research process because of personal issues dealing with their ancestors why do some celebrities get driven while others drive themselves Some of the above questions were answered in an interview by Thomas MacEntee with...

For what is the worth of a human life  unless it is woven into the lives of our ancestors. ---Cicero 106-43BC Keep in touch on Facebook, email, or call.

Most of us old timers began family history work before the digital age, and now we are trying to update and organize our information while still trying to research.   Our old photographs and documents we are trying to scan and digitize, so these precious relics can be saved and shared among many family members. We have been thrust into technology as a wonderful tool to assist in our family history research.   We see the value in technology and we see the advantage of utilizing technology.   We have been hurled into the technology world out of necessity to improve and assist in our passion of finding our ancestors and documenting their lives. Because technology came after we began our research, we are stumped by the little things like how to name and organize our files and pictures; scanning techniques; and how the cloud works.   We have had to learn about pixels, jpegs, and backing up our files in addition to learning how to operate personal computers ...

“It pains me at times, when I think about the wonderful family stories we are losing everyday as our older generation passes away.   For hundreds, even thousand of years, families had a connection with their past in the oral traditions passed down from generation to generation.   They told stories as they worked together, or hunted together, or as they sat around the campfire or the fireplace.   In some small way, I had that as a child, too, when I attended the extended family gatherings we had for holidays.   After a satisfying meal round my grandmother’s large dinner table, my grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles told stories and laughed until tears flowed.             “We don’t do that anymore.   The distances are too great; our lives are too busy, too complicated.   So the older folk keep hundreds of stories inside, stories about what people were like, people we will never know; wh...

Everything you wanted to know about "Scanfest" is here on AnceStories , including simple and basic scanning procedures.  AnceStories also includes how to "chat" with other genealogists who are scanning! August Scanfest is on the 24th.  Here is some incentive to   scan those  photographs  and  documents!

On census records, examine the neighbors.