<div dir="ltr"><div><div>In this update:</div><div><br></div><div>Farmers But Not Landowners--preorder and intro rate</div><div>Photo Identification</div><div>Midwest Genealogy Center Research trip</div><div>Common Name Webinar--still time to get at discount</div><div>Consultations with Michael</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Farmers But Not Landowners</div><div><div>--------------------------------------</div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">Presentations on farming ancestors tend to focus on those who owned real estate. It can be a challenge to research those farmers who rented their ground, worked as sharecroppers, or those who worked in agriculture as farm laborers. </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;text-decoration-line:none;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">In this presentation we focus on these types of individuals</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">. Farm renters, sharecroppers, and farm laborers tend to leave fewer records\u2013</span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;text-decoration-line:none;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">we\u2019ll focus on research strategies directed towards them.</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"> They can be challenging to research in a way that landowners are not.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">Details at:</span></div><div><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com</a><br><br><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px"></span></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Photo Identification</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%">I prefer to put my identification and provenance on the bottom or side of my images. One can also put it in the metadata associated with the photo as well.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:1em;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(3,169,244);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"></a>This is about as much as I put. The intent is not to write a novel. Grandpa raised registered Angus cattle and he and his sons showed cattle at several locations in western Illinois\u2013but there\u2019s not room on the photo to include all of that. But it is something to document. I could create a word processing file with various photographs I have, newspaper clippings my Grandma had, things I found in newspapers related to showing the cattle, and the like.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%">See the image here:</p></div><div><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/09/photographic-identification/">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/09/photographic-identification/</a></div><div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Midwest Genealogy Center Research Trip</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Join me for four days of research in Independence, Missouri, and the Midwest Genealogy Center in May 2026. Details on our announcement page at</div><div><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/mid-continent-genealogy-library-october-2025-research-trip/">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/mid-continent-genealogy-library-october-2025-research-trip/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div>Common Name Webinar</div><div><div>--------------------------------------</div><br></div><div>Details on this presentation are at:</div><div><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------</div><div>Consultations with Michael</div><div>------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Need help with your research? Schedule a genealogy consultation today!<br><br><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/consultations-with-michael/" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/consultations-with-michael/</a><br><br><br></div><div>Until next time!</div><font color="#888888"><div>Michael</div></font></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------------<br>Michael John Neill<br>Genealogy Tip of the Day</div><div><a href="http://www.genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank">http://www.genealogytipoftheday.com</a></div></div></div></div>