Maps
Land platting skills and the ability to use land plats can help you solve genealogical problems. This advanced course will teach you how. Metes & Bounds Land Platting, coordinated by Gerald H. “Jerry” Smith, CG, is a practicum-based course in which, after learning essential skills, students will learn by doing real-world research problems with guidance […]
Have you ever wanted to visualize an ancestor’s migration route, get help with locating boundaries, or learn more about the place your family lived? Advanced Land Tools: Maps will offer education on all of these topics and more at SLIG 2022. As the course description reads, “Maps are a useful, essential tool to conduct effective genealogical […]
I used to think of “record loss” as being related to “burned counties” and a “Southern” researcher’s problem. I was wrong on both counts. As this map of the United States published by FamilySearch will attest, fires were not limited to the Southern states. My eye quickly zoomed in on that bright red color at […]
Course 12: Advanced Land Tools: Maps With Richard G. Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA Maps are a useful, essential tool to conduct effective genealogical research. Applications include locating and visualizing ancestors in time and place, locating boundaries, discovering and following family groups, identifying migration routes, and organizing and correlating information to discover relationships. The class sessions […]