About Clinton Coordinator
John has been researching his family history, off and on, for nearly 30 years now. John has coordinated county sites for IaGenWeb for a number of years as well as SDGenWeb's Spink County.
John and his family live in Maple Grove Minnesota but was raised in Shelby County Iowa. His maternal Gollobit family come from the Sugar Creek area of Clinton County before relocating to Shelby but immirated from the Gottschee area of Austria.
John currently is the Membership Chair of the Germanic Genealogy Society in St. Paul MN, and former treasurer of the International Germanic Genealogy Partnership.
About Clinton Assistants
Nettie Mae Lucas continues to help Clinton County.
She lives in
Clinton County but is unable to do research and look-ups for
people. She has had an interest in genealogy since she was a teenager
and worked for a lady during the summers who would have me transcribe
stuff for her and type it up - on a manual typewriter no less! She
gave me some family group sheets and I had such a fun time getting
them filled out. This connected me to an aunt that had been doing
research on our family and I was totally hooked!
Nettie Mae is married to a wonderful guy who puts up with her obsessions and pulls her back down to earth now and then. She has a daughter who is just getting interested in research since finding out that Al Capone may have visited the house that has been in her husbands family for years. She also has a wonderful son, all grown now, but he used to "hunting" with her - meaning we would go to cemeteries and take pictures and write down information. When he was in school, she would visit his class and share the love of genealogy with his class. We also have 3 beautiful grand children and I hope to get them hooked on family history too. It's never too early to start :)
Most of her family comes from Lee County, Illinois and Monroe County, Iowa. Her husband's family is from Carroll County, Illinois and we haven't really researched his mom's side because she was adopted. Basically, she just loves going thru old records, hearing people's stories and helping out however she can. She has made a lot of friends at the Clinton County Historical Society and enjoy working with them and helping out when she can.
Jenny Hintz Kerr is a new volunteer
Jenny recently contacted me on our Facebook page to offer her help with Clinton County. Her interest is in rural Clinton County and DeWitt in researching her ancestotrs back to the mid 1800's. It will be nice to have her help in transcribing records and researching.