HISTORICAL research for publications, film, tv or topics of interest. My historical research provides clients documented history for television, and film documentaries. I can also provide background research of cemeteries, houses and historic sites for National Register of Historic Places nominations. I do background research for Probate and Estate Attorneys, and trace heirs for probate case files. Can provide research of history of families, businesses, communities for marketing, public relations, or other publication. Provide programs and lectures in appropriate costuming if needed on Civil War and or German emigrants for elderhostel groups, bus tours and family reunions. Family and genealogical research in east central Missouri and at the Missouri State Archives, Missouri Historical Society, State Historical Society of Missouri. 

BACKGROUND Experience:

• A Window through Time, published by the Warren County Tribune in 1989
• Columnist for the Warren County Tribune and Warrenton News Journal 1989-1995
• Power of the People; Cuivre River Rural Electric Company, 1998 Award from the NREA, Washington,DC
• Der Maibaum, Editor of the Journal of the Deutschheim Verein, 1998-2007
• Grants from National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, Missouri Arts Council, Missouri Humanities Council, State of Missouri Local Records Program with the Missouri State Archives