Researching Your Home and the People Who Lived There

Researching a property—be it an old home, a new business, or a section of pastureland—can do more than tell us the history of a space. It can also build a human connection to the people who came before us and the times in which they lived. Diana Staresinic-Deane, executive director of Franklin County Historical Society and Old Depot Museum in Ottawa, will share creative ways to study documents and assemble relevant narratives from maps, deeds, newspapers, and often unsought or unknown resources.

This event is made possible by Humanities Kansas, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and others.