<div dir="ltr"><div><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">** Calculating an Age Range</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">** Survey Maps</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">Calculating an Age Range</font></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></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">Ages given in any document can easily be incorrect. That doesn\u2019t mean they should not be analyzed.</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 Civil War pension for Riley Rampley provides six ages for him at different times. I was curious just how consistent these ages were.</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 six ages provided in the pension application are shown on the chart. The dates on which the ages were given range from 1886 through 1893.</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">Those ages were used to create a range of birth dates for each age. Then to see how consistent the birth date ranges were a timeline was created. The ages were not entirely consistent, but they were relatively close. Given that ages can easily be off by a year or two in any given record, this is not a surprise.</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">All of the ages given are consistent with a date of birth between July and October of 1835. That\u2019s not a wide range of dates. Riley\u2019s \u201cknown\u201d date of birth of 25 August 1835 falls within that range.</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">Ages given for individuals will not always be consistent, but if you\u2019ve got a person with varying ages such an analysis may be helpful in reaching a conclusion about when they probably were born.</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%"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-8500" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/riley-age-chart2.jpg" alt="" width="724" height="816" 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 face="georgia, serif" size="4">And it may also help you to determine if one age is so far off from the others that it might have been a clear error.</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 assumptions I made in this analysis were that:</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">Riley knew his age</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">Riley provided his age for all the documents in this study</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">Riley was always able to remember his age</font></li></ul><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">It\u2019s always a good idea to write down your assumptions when doing any analysis. You can\u2019t know which assumptions may not be valid later if you\u2019ve not listed them.</font></div></div><div><br></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)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erty\u201380 acres in Section 20 (J. Habben), 155 acres in section 21 (J. M. Habben), and 155 acres in section 22 (J. M. Habben).</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%"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-wp-image-8618" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1908_habben-300x128.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="166" 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">The 80 acres in section 20 was given to John\u2019s son Henry and the 310 acres in sections 21 and 22 was split among the Mimka, Louis, and George as shown in the first illustration.</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 1908 plat book is not entirely accurate\u2013as they often aren\u2019t. The highway running along the southern part of the farm in section 22 is the problem. The survey plat indicates that the Habbens actually owned a tiny sliver of land in section 27 which is to the south of section 22. This triangular piece of property is indicated in brown on the image below which was enlarged from the survey map.</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%"><img class="gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-8620 gmail-aligncenter" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/habben_corner.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="106" 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">It is simply too small for the county atlas to show correctly. In fact the survey simply refers to it as \u201cstrip off the north west quarter of section 27 about one rod wide and lying north of the hedge fence.\u201d</font></p><hr style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1rem 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border-width:1px 0px 0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1) currentcolor currentcolor;height:2px;max-width:100%;text-align:initial"><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">These maps are usually filed in the local recorder\u2019s office in the county where the property is located. Finding them may take a little patience. Locations that have a tract index (also known as a parcel or lot index) usually include references to surveys in their appropriate sections of that index. That\u2019s how the survey map in this illustration was located.</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%"></p></div><div style="text-align:start"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:start"><span id="m_-3006902024998009589m_-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="c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Search</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/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 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/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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