Gaze into your ancestor's past with plat maps, which show the divisions of land in your ancestor's neighborhood.
Locate the places where your ancestors lived, take a look at the neighborhood and start your land records searches on these free genealogy websites.
When last I blogged about my Seeger family, I had uncovered their previously unknown migration (a short one, just a few doors down the street) and added finding the...
Looking for clues about your ancestors' relationships and migration patterns? Discover your ancestry and find family history with these five type of genealogy land records.
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Q. My ancestor received land in Ohio for his Revolutionary War service. Why can’t I find any trace of it on the General Land Offi ce Records site?
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Are you planning on attending the joint RootsTech/Federation of
Genealogical Societies conference, February 11-14, 2015, in
Salt Lake City? Four Salt Lake City hotels are now...
Land records are among the most underutilized resources for genealogy. One of America’s major attractions to immigrants was the ability to obtain land. In the...
Plan of Cincinnati and Vicinity, S.A. Mitchell, Jr., 1860, David Rumsey Map Collection In genealogy research, old maps can help you
Pinpoint the location of your ancestor's...
The government shutdown means that some of you who had big genealogy
research or historical travel plans are up a creek:
National parks and Smithsonian museums will...
I don't need to write a lot about what you'll learn from our Map Your Family History with Google Earth One-Week Workshop, coming up May 17-24, thanks to this awesome video...
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has released a
new genealogy resource for Northern Ireland.
PRONI, along with FamilySearch, has digitized
the Valuation...