<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif">Need to </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif">unsubscribe</a><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif">?</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Genealogy Update 20 Sept 2026</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">No Butter Worth Mentioning</span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** Intro Price on Using AI as a Genealogy Consultant--Consult Yourself</font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent">** Probably</span></font></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** New Release: Metes and Bounds with AI</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** Recorded Webinars</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">----------------------------</font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">No Butter Worth Mentioning</font></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">----------------------------</font></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Depositions in contested Civil War pension applications can provide wonderful insight into a family\u2019s day-to-day life. This is especially true for families who do not leave behind letters or other paper ephemera.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Nancy Rampley\u2019s application for a widow\u2019s pension based upon her husband\u2019s service was denied several times. The resident of Walker Township in Hancock County, Illinois, claimed the income from her late husband\u2019s farm was insufficient to support her and the minor children he left behind when he died in 1893. Her application was denied to the point where a special examiner was sent to Breckenridge, Illinois, interview her and several others regarding her claim.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Part of the reason for her pension claim was that her income was insufficient. As a part of her deposition, Nancy made statements about her income and expenses for the time period before her deposition was made in 1902.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">In 1901, Nancy indicated her proceeds from the farm included:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:auto 1.5em 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"> 150 bushels of oats valued at 35 cents per bushel\u2013$52.50</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">80 bushels of wheat at 60 cents per bushel\u2013$48.00</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">50 bushels of rye at 50 cents per bushel\u2013$25.00</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">320 bushels of corn at 50 cents per bushel\u2013$160</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">her share of the hay-7.5 tons at $8 per ton-$60.00</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">poultry and eggs sold\u2013$15.00</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">garden dried up</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">no butter worth mentioning</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-5087" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/nancy-rampley-receipts1901.jpg" alt="" width="721" height="550" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: block; text-align: initial; clear: both; transition-property: background, padding, margin, border, transform, box-shadow, opacity, color, fill, font, border-radius, max-height, max-width, filter, -webkit-transform, -webkit-box-shadow, -webkit-filter; transition-duration: 0.5s;"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Nancy\u2019s son farmed for her and received half the crops as his share. It is not mentioned why Nancy\u2019s share of the 800 bushels of corn was 320 bushels instead of 400. The statement that the \u201cgarden dried up\u201d makes me wonder if 1901 was a dry year. That\u2019s something that may be mentioned in local newspapers.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Lessons and Reminders:</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">Not every Civil War pension application contains depositions of this type. Those that do will not necessarily have details regarding the applicant\u2019s income. The content of the deposition depends upon the individual claim and the reasons for its denial. Nancy was claiming she needed the pension to supplement her income. Her claim was denied by the pension office because she considered able to work. Other widows may have had to prove their soldier\u2019s service or their relationship to the soldier. Nancy\u2019s claim was not denied for those reasons, so her testimony does not focus on those items.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><br></p></div><br><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large;font-weight:700;text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap">Using AI as a Genealogy Consultant</span></div><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><u><b>Our approach is to always use AI responsibly and practically a</b></u></i><font color="#000000"><i><font size="4"><b>s your own genealogy consultant.</b></font></i></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maybe you can\u2019t afford a consultant for your own research or you have too many genealogy problems to hire help with every one. AI can serve as your own genealogy research consultant. </span></p><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As with a human consultant, you\u2019ll need to do the initial work on your ancestor, gather what you have, and familiarize yourself with basic sources in the area. There is no guarantee that AI will solve your problem. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But using AI as your personal research consultant can help. Not by doing the research for you, or inventing ancestors that never existed, but by doing what a good consultant actually does: looking at what you have, summarizing it, discussing it, and giving you ideas on where to look next or to help you see things in a different way. It may even tell you where you need to go to improve your research skills. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After using AI, you still may decide to use a human consultant. The work you did with AI will help you prepare to get the most from that advice from a real person and to make the best use of your time and money should that be necessary. We acknowledge in this presentation and approach that AI does not know everything, is not perfect, and cannot solve every problem. It\u2019s just another tool. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You'll see how to frame a research problem so AI gives you something useful instead of something vague. You'll learn to recognize when it's guessing, because it will, and how to catch hallucinations and how to use AI in a discerning fashion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The goal isn't to replace your judgment. It's to give you a thinking partner available at two in the morning when you finally realize you need to get outside your own mind on a certain ancestral problem. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3SJCPREXK5EUC" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pre-order the presentation now.</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Release date:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 25 September</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Price:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> $15.99</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Includes the full presentation, a detailed handout, and a ready-to-use set of prompts you can adapt to your own research problems.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Probably</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------</font></span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;border-width:2px;border-color:rgb(0,115,170);color:rgb(23,37,42)"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">She died probably in Nicholas County, Kentucky, after the 1850 federal census enumeration.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">I debated how to write the sentence. Should it be \u201cShe probably died in Nicholas County, Kentucky, after the 1850 federal census enumeration,\u201d \u201cShe died probably in Nicholas County, Kentucky, after the 1850 federal census enumeration,\u201d or something similar.</font><img class="gmail-wp-image-5062 gmail-alignright" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sarah-sledd-1850-maybe.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="278" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline; text-align: initial; float: right; transition-property: background, padding, margin, border, transform, box-shadow, opacity, color, fill, font, border-radius, max-height, max-width, filter, -webkit-transform, -webkit-box-shadow, -webkit-filter; transition-duration: 0.5s;"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">I went with the second iteration for two reasons:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:auto 1.5em 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Anyone who wasa alive in the 1850 census enumeration is now dead. There is no \u201cprobably\u201d about it.</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The \u201cprobably,\u201d or more accurately the fact that I do not have a document that explicitly states where she died, is actually a qualification of her place of death. Nicholas County is probably where she died.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">My statement needs to say that.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">It may seem like nitpicking. It is.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Genealogical writing is about being as accurate as we can be and reflecting as accurately as we can what we \u201cknow\u201d from the records we have accessed, the information they contain, and our interpretation of those records.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Thinking carefully about what we know, what we \u201cprobably\u201d know (or surmise), and what we don\u2019t know is time well spent. It forces us to refine our analysis and our interpretations. It reduces the chance we make statements that are not supported by the records.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">That does not stop a careless researcher from taking my \u201cprobably died in Nicholas County\u201d statement and phrasing it as \u201cdied in Nicholas County.\u201d</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">We can\u2019t take responsibility for how others interpret our statements.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">And there\u2019s no \u201cprobably\u201d in that.</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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</span></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><i>Metes and Bounds have you confused?</i></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><i>If you missed the early-bird price there's still time.</i></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><span id="m_-3035718697432112819m_7033898492495191990m_-8975848981419480644m_300265188586799308m_-112295856351205830m_-7592508208758820861m_-5731527410213922142m_2443303823353368425m_349543576948851678m_5330640086014531507m_6499408055550427473m_-5361775229994898281m_1564474532372072231m_-7180068898874562806m_-2572807263328178486m_-626108274527302353gmail-docs-internal-guid-eed63b96-7fff-82a5-6136-a9aea8fe7d9f"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------------------</font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Using AI for Metes and Bounds Deed Analysis--</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">A completely new presentation!</font></div><div>and there's still time to get it at the introductory price</div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Using AI for Metes and Bounds Deed Analysis</i></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_msvf9x2o0" alt="image.png" width="478" height="127" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Do deeds with metes and bounds descriptions give you headaches? You are not alone. We will see how to use AI to help with drawing properties, analyzing deed transactions, noticing patterns, and more. Our presentation is easy-to-follow, down-to-earth, and practical. This presentation is not about how to find land records. We will assume you already know how to do that.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_msvf9x2r1" alt="image.png" width="313" height="288" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics covered will include:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Using AI to work with metes and bounds descriptions.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Manual versus AI transcriptions</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fitting parcels together</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Viewing acquisitions and sales over time</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Creating ownership chronologies</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants are encouraged to send Michael a limited number of questions after they have viewed the presentation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Available for immediate download. <u><a href="https://michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com/cart/add?product_id=251367&method_id=274508" target="_blank">Introductory price is $23.</a></u></span><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"> Post-release price $27.00. Handout included which will include commentary and prompts that were used. The presentation is approximately an hour long and can be viewed more than once.. </span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WZ7W2VTNUFRM6" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Order yours today</span></a><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">. 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Michael has a master\u2019s degree in mathematics and taught mathematics at a community college for thirty years. He has led research trips to the FamilySearch Library for over twenty years. </span></p></font></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
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style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/creating-childrens-stories-from-genealogy-information/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Creating Children\u2019s Stories from Genealogy Events</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/creating-families-from-pre-1850-census-records/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Creating Families from pre-1850 Census Records</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/deedmapper-intro-and-more-deedmapper-webinars/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">DeedMapper webinars</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a 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