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...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
This is a great article about how a homeowner was able to uncover the history of her home through a restoration...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
A website that I recently found is dedicated to historic maps. Aptly titled Historic Map Works, the site allows you to look at scanned images of old maps. After you land on the home page of the site, type the name of your city and state in the search box. You can look...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Have you discovered the wonderful world of Google Books? It is a service that searches the full text of books and magazines from libraries and publishers around the world that Google has scanned and stored in its digital database. It functions like a regular web...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
If you have researched the history of your home and are interested in putting the information you have obtained into a format that will be interesting for others to read, the article A Newsworthy House History in Woodley Park: Literally. is a really nice example of...
