{"id":4218,"date":"2013-01-01T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2013-01-05T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:21:18","slug":"our-special-visitors-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2013\/01\/01\/our-special-visitors-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Our “Special” visitors for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update:<\/strong> We had a visitor on the last week of the year from Christchurch, New Zealand! That is quite a long way away!<\/p>\n

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In 2012, genealogists and history researchers came from all over the country (and the world!) 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, North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, California and England.<\/p>\n

Our superlatives were: Weslaco, Texas in the south; San Francisco, California in the west; Graham, WA in the northwest; and our furthest traveler, from the northeast, came all the from Hazel Grove, UK!<\/p>\n

Check out this map with all of our visitors for the year 2012, as recorded in our Guest Book. Pretty cool, huh?<\/p>\n

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