by Kim Wolterman | Articles
City Directories were the forerunners to telephone books, and often listed the resident’s occupation and spouse in addition to the address. Some also contain maps of the city or cities covered by the directory. The directories can help you establish the dates that a...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
For information on keeping your research organized (and your sanity!), see my article published at Ezine Articles – Organizing Your...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
One of the suggestions in my book on researching house history is that you tell everyone you meet at the research repositories what you are doing. You never know what information they will be able to share with you. They might know of other materials available at...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
At the recorder of deeds office today I was told by a clerk that grantee (buyer) records on their computers only go back to 1904, while the grantor (seller) records go back to 1877, the year St. Louis County separated from St. Louis City. Having researched at this...
