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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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

Tgkohn 16:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[1] ttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7152310-dark-dreams-2-0

[2] ttp://www.scribd.com/doc/181492186/The-Family-of-John-Reinert-1822-1871-in-Europe-and-America-from-1812-to-1985

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