The reason I created AniMap version 4.0, the people who came before me. I discovered AniMap late in 2021. Current version, system requirements, Windows 98. I was running Windows 11 virtually on my Mac. I reached out before purchase, asking if it runs on this environment. Virtual using Apple’s M-series processor. The response, a link…
Pipestone and Rock Counties Minnesota
Pipestone and Rock counties in Minnesota is one of the true cases where the people of Pipestone go to sleep in Pipestone County and the next morning wake in Rock County. Rock county residents go to sleep in Rock County and wake up in Pipestone County. That may be read as my not being clear,…
AniMap Today
AniMap, the story is interesting and real for me. However, so is the current situation. I’ve always developed AniMap on my dime, my time. Subscriptions help with expense of server operations. Any license used in development and time writing code has always been done after a full work day. Recently I lost my job of…
AniMap Version 5 – First Look
In the video below, I explain the struggle researching where counties are can be time consuming. It shows how. AniMap version 4 and version 5, currently in development; can quickly show you more precise locations where to search the records you are looking for. This video covers Ramsey County, Minnesota on 26 May 1857. A…
Who is Robert M. Dessureau?
Random thoughts from today, researching Who is Robert M. Dessureau? The question arriving as I start to put fingers on the keyboard to write Book 2 – History of Deerbrook, Langlade County, Wisconsin. Of course for me writing involves double checking facts I’ve found, facts supporting the stories I tell. So, turn to AI, because…
Deerbrook, Welcome Home
In 1921 Robert M. Dessureau writes: Deerbrook, situated on the main line of the Chicago & North Western railway, was named by Edward Dawson, timber cruiser and prospector, who while camping near the Eau Claire river watched the deer “drink his fill” each morning just as the sun peeped over the hills proclaiming a new…
Stay Awhile and Listen….. Still Telling…
Today is weight of what I started 27 years ago crashing. No, it isn’t over, the story has not stopped. Weight is only reflection of recent discoveries, the weight causing a sigh yet heavy as now formed theory, words written before fingers hit the keys… All shaken, jumbled all at once causing words to be…
I thought “and then he hit me”
Oops, said through many things hitting me today, giving more clarity in created words of book 2. What hit, more source fact. The title of this post was while hearing the song “And then he kissed me” and writing the words “and then he hit me”. If this isn’t a laughing example where outcome does…
Book 1 Compete
Attached is the first book of a planned three book series. The first being only 40 pages was intended. As these books are of historical nature and written through the stories of people, validated through historical documents, it breaks the mold of conventional history. I don’t present this as an authoritative position. Fact speaks for…
As Stories are Told
We’ve all listened as someone told a story making us aware no story is fully told without a journey into parts of the bigger story. Today is here, the time is now. I see and feel history completely the opposite direction of most historical writers. Typical history we read is from place -> event ->…