My Go-To Source for Maps
My Go-To Site for Historical Maps Have you ever wondered what your ancestor’s neighborhood actually looked like? Or tried to locate a family farm that no longer exists? Historical maps
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Using AI to Write the Rodenbach-Löhr family story
This is the first article in which I used AI to help with the content. I wrote a draft first, then asked Claude.AI for assistance. After decades of writing government
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a 100-Year-Old Check and 5 Lessons from Life in Small-Town America
Historical documents have an incredible way of transporting us back in time, offering glimpses into daily life from bygone eras. A few years ago, I came across a remarkable artifact:
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The Millinery of Mathilda Lorke
I love vintage hats and jewelry – and newspaper research. Last year when conducting research for a client, I found a milliner in Marysville, Kansas named Mathilda Lorke. She sparked
The Adventures of a Missouri Marine: Lewis A Mothersbaugh, USMC, 1898-1902
This is the beginning of a story of a man named Lewis Arthur Mothersbaugh, “Uncle Bud” and me. I never had the chance to meet him but I have gotten
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