The Coos County Home Historian

Biographies

Your house is not just a physical structure. It is a statement about all of the individuals that have lived in it. Each previous inhabitant had the opportunity to help develop the character of the house you see today. If you are the current owner of the house, you may well have questions about why changes were made or when they were done. Understanding something about the inhabitants and their lives may help answer some of these questions.

Today, a lot of genealogical information is available over the Internet. You, in your research, can actually contribute important information to the people that are researching the same families you are. For example, you may be able to correct errors, fill in holes or give a personality to people that family members can't, simply because you have access to local records that they don't.

To assist you in collecting your biographical information, make several copies of the Biography worksheet. You may find it easier to save an electronic copy of the file on your computer and then edit the information with either a Word Processing program or with a HTML editor such as Microsoft's FrontPage, Netscape or Firefox. You may also want to review Collecting Biographical Information for more information on how to research biographical information.

When you have identified several of the previous owners and know a little bit about them, you are ready to continue and compile information on the architectural changes that have made your house what you see today.

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