This year, genealogists and history researchers came from all over the country to the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center, to use our wonderful resources.<\/p>\n
They came from far away to fill in the blank branches of their Family Trees. They found copies of birth, marriage and death records<\/a> of their Scott County, Iowa ancestors. They came to do research on the Iowa Soldiers\u2019 Orphans\u2019 Home<\/a>, Colonel George Davenport <\/a>and Bix Beiderbecke<\/a>. They looked at newspaper articles <\/a>on microfilm, online databases <\/a>we subscribe to and our photograph collection<\/a>. Their searches were made easier by the many indices<\/a> that have been prepared by our volunteers from the Scott County Iowa Genealogical Society.<\/p>\n How far did they travel?<\/p>\n Our\u00a0farthest Northern visitors\u00a0came from Stanwood, Washington<\/strong>. That is 2,077 miles or 32 hours away!<\/p>\n From the\u00a0South came visitors from Grapevine, Texas<\/strong>. That is 953 miles or 14 hours and 50 minutes away!<\/p>\n \u00a0Atlanta, Georgia<\/strong> is the home of our Easernmost visitors. About 811 miles or\u00a012 hours and\u00a034 minutes away!<\/p>\n From out West, and from\u00a0the furthest distance,\u00a0came patrons from Redwood City, California<\/strong>. A whopping 2,336 miles or 37 hours away!<\/p>\n Check out this map with all of our visitors for the year 2009, as recorded in our Guest Book:<\/p>\n