{"id":6775,"date":"2018-05-01T13:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2018-05-01T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:37:59","slug":"us-land-records-class-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6775","title":{"rendered":"US Land Records Class-May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6896 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 0.857143rem; margin-bottom: 0.857143rem;\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/deed-pa-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to again offer <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=6772\">our 5-week session on United States land records in May 2018<\/a>. Land records can shed a fair amount of light on your genealogical research&#8211;as long as they are understood and thoroughly researched.\u00a0 Learn more about these records, how to research them, and how to analyze and interpret them.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has researched his own family extensively in land records for over thirty years, both in federal and state land states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1\u2013discussion of different types of deeds, terms and definitions, record keeping practices and procedures, types of land ownership, and women\u2019s property ownership changes over time.<\/li>\n<li>Week 2\u2013discussion of metes and bounds legal descriptions, property descriptions in metes and bounds states, pre-Federal land records, and general research strategies in those states.<\/li>\n<li>Week 3\u2013discussion of legal descriptions in federal land states, property descriptions in federal land states, and an overview of federal land records (bounty lands, cash land sales, homestead claims, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Week 4\u2013online demonstration of actual land record searches using indexes and records selected from online materials at <em>FamilySearch.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Week 5\u2013online demonstration of search techniques and approaches to the federal land patents hosted at the Bureau of Land Management website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=6772\">Registration and more details are on our announcement page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to again offer our 5-week session on United States land records in May 2018. Land records can shed a fair amount of light on your genealogical research&#8211;as long as they are understood and thoroughly researched.\u00a0 Learn more about these records, how to research them, and how to analyze and interpret them. Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}