by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Having just returned from a two week genealogical research trip to Germany and Switzerland, I was amazed at the writing that appears on the old houses in the villages I visited. At first I did not understand what they meant. But then I visited the town of Steinweiler,...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
If you have been looking through deeds for your homeowners and are stuck, it could be because ownership of the property transferred by inheritance rather than by sale. Probate records, which are court proceedings to pass a deceased person’s property to the heirs, fall...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
This case study is following researching a house history located in Shrewsbury, Missouri. You can click on the links for Part One, Part Two and Part Three. In the last post I mentioned that an auction for the farm owned by John Murdock appeared in the local newspaper...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
As I have discussed in parts one and two of this case study, I am researching the house history of one of the buildings we own in Shrewsbury, Missouri. The original land owned by John J. Murdock (Murdoch) was called Murdoch Farm on early maps of St. Louis County. The...
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...
