In 2011, 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 Last year we had visitors from Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, Alabama, North Carolina, Maryland, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, California and Canada.<\/p>\n Our superlatives were: Galveston, Texas in the south; Napa, California in the west; Chesapeake Beach, MD in the east; and our furthest traveler, from the north was from Highland Ranch, Alberta!<\/p>\n Check out this map with all of our visitors for the year 2011, as recorded in our Guest Book. Pretty cool, huh?<\/p>\n