As of 2023, Roots and Recall belongs to Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C., all inquiries and correspondence should be addressed to the university at the Pettus Archives.
R&R collects information from multiple institutions, written sources, linked databases and public input to create website posts that are related to specific addresses. Each entry attempts to include a current image of a specific house, data from the local city directories, a Sanborn Insurance Map “diagram” of the specific address, census data, historic survey data, and architectural, family, and historical information as related to the address – “three dimensional genealogy.”
As of Dec. 2018, Roots and Recall (R&R) has over 33,000 posts and more than 400,000+ images of historic properties, individuals and related subjects in nine counties. R&R has been called the Wikipedia of House History, and it functions much in that same manner by encouraging public input and submissions. The site is also operated by volunteers, there is no paid staff!
R&R’s mission is to provide accurate data on properties that are fifty years of age or older. While the data is carefully reviewed and its sources are highly reliable, R&R cannot insure complete accuracy and suggests that users enhance their knowledge of posts they enjoy with their own research. Additional input and submissions to our data are always encouraged. Be sure to include the address of the post in question, your full name, address, email, phone number and specific source of documentation.
- R&R does not encourage posting multi-generational genealogy charts or significant numbers of current personal images unrelated to the specific post. We do, however, highly encourage submitting family histories, older pictures, and stories related to tangible addresses, structures, dwellings, and locations that are fifty years of age or older.
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My family are direct descendants of Richard Sherer who bought the home in 1844. My father, Frank Sherer, is a 92-year-old folk artist who creates miniature replicas of historic buildings. One of his best works is of the Dickey-Sherer House. It is in the permanent collection of the Kings Mountain Historical Museum at 100 E. Mountain Street, Kings Mountain, NC. 28086.
The museum director told me that they frequently have visitors asking questions about the house. I was asked to create a tri-fold informational pamphlet about the house that will be placed next to the miniature in the museum. Ideally, I would like to encourage museum visitors to take photographs of my father’s miniature and then take the 12-minute drive south of the museum to compare them to the actual house.
If possible, I would like to include a few images from this Roots and Recall website for the pamphlet I am creating, especially images of the house being moved. This website says, “Images are not for reproduction or use without the written consent of the owner-contributor” but they do not provide any direct means to contact the photos owner-contributor. Does anyone know how and where I can contact them?