User:Tgkohn

My first edit to Wikipedia was made 2006.09.19, on the topic of recorder of deeds. My background is as a generalist, and as an amateur genealogist. I am a technical writer by trade, good cook, and editor. I have collaborated (primarily as editor and researcher) on a broad revision of Charles Derry's Dark Dreams, which updates his discussion from 1977 on the horror film. Charles is a film theoretician and historian who focuses on genre criticism, and my association with him (of 34 years in 2015) has burnished my knowledge of film somewhat. I have worked several years on a long genealogical study of a young woman who emigrated from Germany in 1865 and married in 1874 a man who had lived across the river from her German town.

I am fluent in German, and I have some ability in French. I translate both languages to English on an occasionally for friends and for business. I can read and understand several other Romance languages also.

I imagine my contributions to the Wikicommunity will be rare, and, I hope, as accurate as humanly possible.

I'm always open to reasoned discussion, and often not defensive in receiving criticism. ...Just try me. Is dry humor coming across?

Contributor to these Articles

1. Jan Williams
2. Judy Garland at Home at the Palace: Opening Night
3. Franghiz Alizadeh
4. Tract index
5. Recorder of deeds
6. Grantor–grantee index
7. Recording (real estate)
8. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Beloit, Kansas)
9. Pittsburg Township, Mitchell County, Kansas
10. Houston County, Minnesota
11. Esbon, Kansas
12. Clyde, Kansas
13. Charles Derry
14. Horror-of-personality film genre
15. Horror-of-Armageddon film genre
16. Horror-of-the-demonic film genre
17. Louis Mollier
18. Familienbuch
19. Parish register
20. Robert Savage (composer)
21. Scitex Vision

Tgkohn 16:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)