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)