In Their Time: A Timeline Journal For Placing Family Events Into Historical Context 1000-2076

A timeline-based journal for recording your family events in an historical context. Each page represents a year in time from 1000AD to 2076AD and provides important annual events as well as a blank lined page to record what your family was doing in each of those years.

Roger Dudley is a native of Denver, Colorado, and went through the Denver Public School system before attending Mesa College (now Mesa State College) in Grand Junction, Colorado. He spent a year as a VISTA volunteer in and around Baltimore, Maryland, returned to school at Colorado State College (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado. Following graduation, with a degree in speech communication, Dudley pursued a career in video production forming his own production company, Datura Productions, and working in public television and later in the corporate communications department of the Public Service Company of Colorado. In 1982-1983 he produced, directed, researched, wrote, edited and narrated three one hour programs for the Denver public television station, KRMA, tracing the history of Denver television on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of it belated arrival in the Mile High City, the series was titled “That’s Thirty.” After taking early retirement Dudley returned to school and earned a masters degree in Library Science from Emporia State University. Before graduation he was hired as an archivist by the Western History/Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library. He has been actively researching his own family history since 1975 and in 2011 published a history of his paternal grandmother’s family, Kravig Family: From Buskerud Fylke, Norway to Lincoln County, Colorado. Dudley now assists others beginning their research at the reference desk of the Denver Public Library’s Western History/Genealogy Department.