<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:initial">Genealogy Update 6 October 2026</span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">** </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">Forty Years to Deliver a Horse</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">** new---</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">US Local Land Records Webinar---new</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent">** A Garden, A Mark, and Evidence of a Relationship</span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** new--Using AI to Maximize Your Full-Text Search</font></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">Forty Years to Deliver a Horse</font></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"><br></font></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">The image accompanying this post is from a deed of gift of a horse from Lewis Demoss to James Poteet. That\u2019s really not the point of this post.</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">Before Lewis\u2019 signature, the document reads (in part):</font></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">Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand &amp; Seal this 22d Day of January in the year one thousand Seven hundred thirty Six seven.</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%"><a href="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dates.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-2357" 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-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-2357" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dates.jpg" alt="dates" width="818" 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;"></font></a></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">After the signature of Lewis and the witnesses, it says:</font></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">On the back of which foregoing Deed of gift is there written Viz Memdum that on the 22d day of January 1767 [??] [??] was Delivered by the \u2026</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">The 7 is really above the 6 and in fact the last \u201cdigit\u201d of the year looks like the fraction 7/6.</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">Of course it\u2019s not 7/6. The year is not meant to be 1776 or 1767 either.</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 first date is 22 January 1736/7. That\u2019s because during the time this document was written, the start of the new year was on 25 March\u2013not on 1 January. 22 January would have been in the latter part of 1736 according to those who used 25 March as the start of the new year (for them 1737 would have started in March). 22 January would have been early in 1737 for those who used 1 January as the start of the new year.</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">As for the delivery date of 22 January 17 \u201c7/6.\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">That date appears to be incorrect, but not in the way one might think. It appears that the \u201c3\u201d in the year was omitted. That would make the date of delivery the same as the date the document was executed, which makes the most logical sense. The date can\u2019t be 1776 as delivering a horse forty years after the date of the document seems a little bit improbable.</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">Sometimes what looks like errors are not errors.</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">And sometimes what looks like errors are errors.</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">We just have to think and contemplate so that we can discern the difference.</font></p></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">----------------------------</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">US Local Land Records Webinar</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent;text-align:initial">----------------------------</span></div><div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="6"><b>Special Announcement</b></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="6"><b><i>Land records have you confused? We have the answer.</i></b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="6">Reading the Deed Books: US Local Land Records for Genealogists</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There are a lot of records your ancestor may have avoided being listed in. But if he bought or sold land, there was a record created to document that transfer and a copy of that record was probably made at the local court house. Even if your ancestor never bought or sold the land he owned, he may appear in local land records.  Deeds are some of the most reliable records we have, and genealogists overlook them all the time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This presentation covers the land records kept at the county and town level in the United States and the general structure and form of a deed itself along with land record terminology.  We&#39;ll talk about how the records are usually organized, how to use grantor and grantee indexes (and what to do when they fail you), and why the record you need might be sitting in a parent county formed fifty years earlier. Local land records are not just deeds, we&#39;ll look at mortgages, releases, powers of attorney, and the land divisions that followed a death.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We&#39;ll also spend time on what a deed can tell you beyond the sale itself. The legal phrasing often hides useful clues, and the details people skim past, like witnesses, neighbors, or a wife releasing her dower, can point to relatives and connections you didn&#39;t know about. We will look at examples from a variety of US locations. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Searching these records can always be done onsite, but we will also talk about accessing them where possible via FamilySearch (including manual browsing and using full-text search where applicable). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You should be comfortable with basic research before signing up. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presentation and handout included. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=3M24AP7JGYQG2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Receive recording only by 19 October 2026 for $15.99</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=3M24AP7JGYQG2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Purchase recording for delivery by 19 October 2026 and participate in a one-time question and answers session regarding land deeds on 26 October starting at 7:30 pm central time via zoom</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael John Neill has actively researched his genealogy forever forty years, descends from generations of land-owning farmers, and has utilized land records in his own research extensively during that time. He is a former community college math instructor with a master\u2019s degree in mathematics. </span></p></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><i>Special Announcement!</i></font></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Enhance your Full-Text Searching with AI!</font></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------</font></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">A Garden, A Mark, and Evidence of a Relationship</font></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------</font></div><div style="text-align:start"><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 are several lessons in this assignment of property from John Demoss of Harford County, Maryland.</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">One is that some individuals literally make a mark when \u201cmaking their mark.\u201d That\u2019s not an \u201cx\u201d John Demoss made when he \u201csigned\u201d this property transfer. I cannot say if there is any significance to the fact that John\u2019s mark is after his name or not.</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 second is that it confirms that John Demoss was the father of John Demoss, Junr. One cannot always conclude based upon names alone that a junior is the son of another man with the same name. This document makes it pretty clear as John Demoss Junr. is styled as \u201cmy son.\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">The third thing is that I cannot be quite clear when John Demoss executed this property transfer to his son as it is undated. It would have to have been before 16 July 1802 when the property was patented to John Demoss, Junior. In some cases dates such as this may be crucial if there are not documents that directly provide a date of death.</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"><del style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">The patent</del> The certificate of survey gives specific metes and bounds description for this piece of property, \u201cDemosses Farm.\u201d There is also another piece of property, \u201cDemosses Garden,\u201d which has a similar assignment from John Demoss. [The first sentence of this paragraph was edited to correctly indicate that this image is from the \u201ccertificate of survey\u201d rather than the patent, which a reader graciously pointed out.]</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 titles of the property and the accompanying metes and bounds descriptions may make it easier to concretely tie later records of John Demoss in Harford County with the one referenced in this document.</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%"><a href="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/john-demoss.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-2341" 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-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-2341" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/john-demoss.jpg" alt="john-demoss" width="992" height="800" 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; font-family: inherit; 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;"></a></p></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:start"><span id="m_-703411463065747447gmail-docs-internal-guid-d0e74572-7fff-7697-2f57-a566f7ae553a"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;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="6"><b>Using AI to Maximize Your Full-Text Searching at FamilySearch</b></font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><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">Are you getting the most from full-text search? Are you considering all the options? Are you feeling overwhelmed even though you know what the purposes of all the boxes are?</font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><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">AI can help organize and structure your full-text searches at FamilySearch. It can be used to create a customized research log to track all the various searches you perform at the site and all you need to do is indicate the search was performed and what the results were. </font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><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">It is still important for you to know how full-text search at FamilySearch works\u2013you cannot effectively problem solve if you don\u2019t\u2013but AI can make your full-text searches more efficient. The best use of full-text search is using it to find as much as possible\u2013not just the low hanging fruit that one often finds when simply typing in a name. Could there be more that you could find with full-text search?</font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><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">We will see in this presentation how to use AI to take your use of full-text search to the next level.</font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><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">You will get the most out of this presentation if you are already familiar with how to use full-text search.</font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=QUZM9TS8GBEVQ" 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 a copy of the AI presentation only\u2013release date of 18 October 2026\u2013for $16.99</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (introductory rate).</span></font></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><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">Order a copy of our other full-text search presentations:</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;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"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/08/05/updated-familysearch-full-text-search-webinar/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Full-Text Search at FamilySearch</span></a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">\u2013download immediate</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;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"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><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="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Full-Text Search at FamilySearch with Common Names</span></a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">\u2013download immediate</span></font></p></li></ul></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div><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><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;font-size:16px">--------------------</span></div><div><font color="#46707f" face="georgia, serif" size="4">Webinars</font></div><div><font color="#46707f" face="Open Sans"><span style="font-size:16px">--------------------</span></font></div><div><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-w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serif;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/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 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 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 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 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 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 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></div><div><div><div><div><div><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Need to unsubscribe? Do so at:</font></b></div><div><b><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com<font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><br></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></a></b></div></div><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888" size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;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"><br></span></p></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4">Michael John Neill</font></div><div><font size="4">Genealogy Tip of the Day</font></div><div><font size="4">PO Box 17</font></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(70,112,127)"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"></font></font></p></div><div><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent">Henderson, IL 61439</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>