by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Don’t forget to check out cyndislist.com for great resources on locating land records. If you are not familiar with her website, she has the largest collection of genealogy websites listed on the internet. If you are researching family history, her website will...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
I recently learned that a woman down the street was born and raised in the house she currently lives in. She is 98 years old, and apparently her father was a fairly prominent artist. In fact some of his work hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Yesterday I attended a genealogy workshop on using Google to research your family tree. I couldn’t help but notice the parallels with researching house history. Obviously Google is an amazing search engine, recording two billion searches each day and garnering 65% of...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Yesterday afternoon I attended a garden party with my husband in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. A design that my husband had done for the local hospital’s site had won a couple of prominent awards, and he was presenting them to the hospital in conjunction with a new...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
Researching mortgages may help you plug some of the holes in your deed research. Sometimes deeds were not recorded until the property actually transferred out of the family, but mortgages were always recorded at the time money was exchanged. While the mortgage looks...
by Kim Wolterman | Articles
This past Sunday we had an opportunity to share the history of our home with 350 people! We participated in a house and garden tour featuring 6 homes and gardens plus an additional 5 gardens. The tour was a fundraiser for the people of Haiti. Our community was...
