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• Thu

  15

  Sep

  2016

  Kevin Meyer. Plowing Through the Land Records to Find Your Ancestor.

  7:00 pmDecatur Church of Christ

  Kevin Meyer, Plowing Through the Land Records to Find Your Ancestor.  Because Americans were so "land minded" over 3/4 of all males who lived to maturity well into the 19th century owned land.  Because this is true, land records exist from the beginning of the first permanent settlements in America--frequently one of the few  identifying records from this early period.  A quality unique to land records is that the older they are the more genealogical data there may be to obtain from that record.  This lecture will focus on using these records, combined with other records to identify ancestors.