by Kim Wolterman | Articles
While reading my local community newspaper today I came across an article regarding the sale of one of our community’s oldest homes. The William Harper Home is listed as being circa 1854, some forty plus years before Webster Groves was incorporated. What caught my...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
When researching the history of a house or property, historic newspapers are sometimes overlooked as a resource. Not only can the papers provide some historical context for what was going on in the community when the house was built, they also are a great place to...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
As I mentioned in the last article, I have been unable to find the 1985 owner of the house I am researching as a purchaser of the property (called the grantee). So I have been using some other resources that genealogists will find to be familiar. I looked for the...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
A couple of years ago I began researching the history of a house that we own and use for our business in Shrewsbury, Missouri, which is a suburb of St. Louis. Because I have run into a number of challenges in my research, I thought it might be helpful to let you know...
