<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Genealogy Update 5 October 2026</font></span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">The Neills, their Horses, a Cultivator, and an Airplane</span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Using AI as a Genealogy Consultant Released--intro price!</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** BLM, Newspapers, and Females</font></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** My Irish Neills</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** More Land Platting with AI and Getting the Most From the Census</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">The Neills, their Horses, a Cultivator, and an Airplane</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"><a href="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/airplane-sam-neill.jpg" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(3,169,244);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><img class="gmail-alignnone gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-4014" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/airplane-sam-neill.jpg" alt="airplane-sam-neill" width="635" height="546" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; text-align: initial; 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;"></a><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">New technology frequently causes problems as it did for Samuel Neill in 1920.</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">An airplane flying near West Point, Illinois, spooked the two horses who were pulling his cultivator. The horses ran off, pulling the cultivator behind them and destroying it in the process. In an apparent separate incident, two horses belonging to Virgil Neill ran off while hitched to a mower. One of the horses was injured and had to be put down.</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">There is more to be learned here than that the Neills had horses who were easily spooked.</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">I had to do a little digging in my files to determine which Samuel Neill the article referenced. There were potentially several and I did not want to immediately assume the incorrect one.</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">The article does not mention that Virgil is the son of Samuel. That\u2019s another instance of a newspaper not mentioning the obvious. Most individuals who knew the family already knew that Virgil was Samuel\u2019s son. Newspapers are called newspapers for a reason.</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">Sometimes newspapers or other references may mention two separate incidents that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. That\u2019s the case here. These items have in common the Neills and their horses. That\u2019s it. One event did not cause the other. One needs to be careful to not draw inferences where those inferences are not supported.</font></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%"> </p></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(23,37,42)"></span></font><div><span id="m_5666083551557062704m_5070019780402953260m_-7737323720773909212m_6271815121530078826gmail-docs-internal-guid-1bddd5a4-7fff-d075-e7cf-99ace46091f6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Using AI as a Genealogy Consultant--released for viewing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our approach is to always use AI responsibly and practically a</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s your own genealogy consultant.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You&#39;ll see how to frame a research problem so AI gives you something useful instead of something vague. You&#39;ll learn to recognize when it&#39;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="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The goal isn&#39;t to replace your judgment. It&#39;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="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><a href="https://michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com/cart/add?pr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ont-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael John Neill </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(96,109,120);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">has over forty years of genealogical research experience and has utilized records in a variety of states in the Midwest, New England, and the Southern United States.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></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">----------------</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">My Irish Neills</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%"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">----------------</span></p></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" style="" size="4">Like many genealogists with Irish immigrants, I don\u2019t have a great deal of information on my Irish family in Ireland.</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">Samuel Neill immigrated as a single man in 1864, arriving in <a href="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/samuel-neill2.jpg" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(3,169,244);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><img class="gmail-alignright gmail-wp-image-4011 gmail-size-medium" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/samuel-neill2-182x300.jpg" alt="samuel-neill2" width="182" height="300" 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;"></a>Canada\u2019s New Brunswick Province with his married brother Joseph and Joseph\u2019s young family. The Neills were living in Limavady when they left Ireland for Canada. Their immigration information appears in Brian Mitchell\u2019s <i style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. &amp; J. COOKE Line and the McCORKELL  Line </i>(Genealogical  Publishing  Co., Balto., MD.  1988).</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">Samuel\u2019s brother Joseph was married in Ireland before the family\u2019s immigration to the United States:</font></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">From  the \u201cQuarterly returns of Marriages 1862 Ireland  Vol.  9,\u201d LDS microfilm roll 0101440, page 375.</font></b></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_2IZyuH7a88/VQg1BsTxjVI/AAAAAAAAPq4/ulO5bs7Y9Fo/s1600/neills-1890s.jpg" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(3,169,244);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><img class="gmail-alignright" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_2IZyuH7a88/VQg1BsTxjVI/AAAAAAAAPq4/ulO5bs7Y9Fo/s1600/neills-1890s.jpg" width="320" height="267" border="0" 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;"></font></a></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">On  16 January 1862 at the Derrymore Presbyterian Church,  Joseph NEIL[sic] and Ann BRYCE[sic] were married by Wm. [JAMISON?], with witnesses  of  Wm. MC INTOSH and John ARCHIBALD.  Joseph  was  of full  age  and was a bachelor who lived in [Taques] Hill  in  the parish  of Drumachose.  Joseph was a servant, and was the son  of John NEIL[sic] who was a laborer.  Ann was a spinster of full age and  was  a servant living in White [??] in the parish of  Drumachose.  Her father was James BRYCE, a laborer.</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Samuel and Annie Murphy were married in New Brunswick in 1865. Unfortunately there is no additional information on the family in their marriage record there. Nothing is known about Annie\u2019s Irish origins other than she was born in the late 1830s/early 1840s and was a native of Ireland.</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JJz7omFzX7Q/VQg1Bc3J5SI/AAAAAAAAPq0/749uL7lyDtM/s1600/annie-murphy-neill.jpg" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(3,169,244);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><img class="gmail-alignright" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JJz7omFzX7Q/VQg1Bc3J5SI/AAAAAAAAPq0/749uL7lyDtM/s1600/annie-murphy-neill.jpg" width="217" height="320" border="0" 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;"></a>The Neills moved to near West Point, Hancock County, Illinois in the late 1860s and remained there until their deaths. Research in Hancock County has not located any information related to Annie\u2019s Irish origins. The Neills settled in Hancock County likely because Joseph\u2019s wife, Anne Brice, had family already in the area.</font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(23,37,42)"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">Annie (Murphy) Neill died in St. Albans Township in 1897. Samuel died at his home on 17 March 1912.</font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------------</font></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"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">More Land Platting with AI</font></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"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------------</font></span></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" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal"><br></font></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"><font face="ge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on" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/19/using-the-familysearch-catalog-webinar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">FamilySearch Catalog</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/rooting-around-for-farmers-and-tenants-and-laborers/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Farming Ancestor webinars\u2013landowner and non-landowner versions</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/08/05/updated-familysearch-full-text-search-webinar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Full-Text Search at FamilySearch</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Full-Text Search at FamilySearch with Common Names</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/how-errors-get-in-records-webinar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">How Errors Get in Records</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/03/10/genealogy-research-in-illinois-webinar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Illinois Genealogy Research</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/using-ai-for-metes-and-bounds-deed-analysis/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Metes and Bounds With AI\u2013platting and analysis</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;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"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/unburying-funeral-home-records/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Unburying Funeral Home Records</span></a></p></li></ul></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">----------------------------------------<br></font></div></di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