<div dir="ltr"><div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial;font-family:georgia,serif">Need to </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial;font-family:georgia,serif">unsubscribe</a><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial;font-family:georgia,serif">?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:initial;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></p><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Genealogy Update 10 October 2026</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><i>** </i></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">He's Not James for Very Long</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><i>** </i>What Do You Use FindAGrave For?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">** When You are Gone?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">-----------------------------</font></i></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">He's Not James for Very Long</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------</font></i></span></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mv2i0fkb0" alt="image.png" width="472" height="359"><br></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">There\u2019s no family Bible and there\u2019s no birth certificate for James William Rampley who was born in Hancock County, Illinois, on 5 August 1868. It\u2019s too early for a civil record of an Illinois birth and he apparently never had a need for a delayed birth certificate. If there was a family Bible in which his birth is recorded, I have never been able to find it.</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 the 1870 census he\u2019s listed as James Rampley and in the 1880 he\u2019s listed as William J. Rampley (both times with his parents in Hancock County\u2019s Walker Township). There may be the occasional later record where he\u2019s listed as William J. Rampley, but for the most part he\u2019s just William Rampley\u2013without the \u201cJ.\u201d He\u2019s never referred to as James Rampley after the 1870 census.</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">James William Rampley was likely named for his grandfathers: James Rampley and William Rampley.</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\u2019m not certain why James William Rampley started using the name of William Rampley, but I\u2019m reasonably certain: there were too many other James Rampleys. While his grandfather James Rampley died when James William Rampley was in his early teens, there were others of the same name living in the same area: his uncle, James Rampley, and a first cousin of approximately the same age named James Edward Rampley.</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">A 1902 affidavit in Nancy Rampley\u2019s Civil War widow\u2019s pension file is the best reference that indicates the name of her oldest son was actually James William. His name is included in a list of all of Nancy\u2019s children that also includes their date of birth. Nancy would have had first hand knowledge of the names of her children and the special examiner appointed to take her testimony indicated he was a reliable witness in his summary of evidence he heard. The affidavit does not mention it, but it is possible that Nancy read the names and dates of birth for her children from a family bible or a list someone had created for that very purpose\u2013as a memory aid.</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 other children have names that are all well documented in other records. The others went by their first name as given.</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">Except for Frances\u2013who signed every document \u201cFannie.\u201d</font></p></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:27pt;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 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------------</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">Using AI to Maximize Your Full-Text Searching</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">-----------------------------------</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"><br></font></span></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Enhance your Full-Text Searching with AI!</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span id="m_-3580686583025789207m_-1734095912854373340m_-2919601874453278073m_7195786793211608814m_2425180567291967162m_4242299942344867553gmail-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&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><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><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 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">What Do You Use FindAGrave for?</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" 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" style="" size="4">I\u2019ve used <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/" 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%">FindAGrave</a> </em>memorials for hundreds of relatives throughout my research (generally only for tombstone image). I don\u2019t contact every submitter for every photograph or every memorial creator. There simply isn\u2019t time. While <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">I do appreciate the work of those who have taken pictures</em> (and I\u2019ve taken some myself), it does not seem like a good use of time (mine or theirs) to communicate with every person who has taken a picture of the stone of a relative. I don\u2019t communicate with everyone who may have indexed a record on <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">FamilySearch</em> 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">However\u2026</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 are times when I do reach out to the memorial administrator or to someone who has submitted a photograph or information on <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">FindAGrave</em>:</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">when I want to use the photograph on my blog or in some other way besides being buried in my digital files</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">when an actual family photograph has been submitted to the memorial\u2013many times these are submitted by relatives and this can be a great way to reach out to potential relatives</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">when I\u2019m \u201creally stuck\u201d on the relative whose memorial I have found and I\u2019m hoping that the submitter may know something more about the cemetery, the cemetery\u2019s records, the area in general, etc.\u2013I\u2019ve received more information (including newspaper clippings) that way.</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 initial email\u2013particularly if I think the person is a relative\u2013is usually short and intended to find out if the address is still valid and to gauge the person\u2019s interest. I don\u2019t send a 5,000 word email listing all the family\u2019s information and exploits. That can wait until later.</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">Even if you think you \u201cknow everything\u201d about a certain ancestor, consider looking at their page on <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;max-width:100%">FindAGrave</em>. You may be surprised at what you find.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"> </p><p 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">BLM Tract Books and 2026 Search Site Update</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 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:27pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,63,66);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tract Books and the 2026 BLM Land Patent Search site update</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">This presentation will discuss what the BLM tract books are (they keep track of complete and incomplete federal land transactions), how to search them on FamilySearch\u2013there are multiple ways (focusing on manual searches for when the indexed do not work), what clues can be gathered from these records, accessing additional records suggested in the tract books, documenting your searches of these books. Also included will be a discussion of the current iteration of the Bureau of Land Management Federal Land Patent search site.</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"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UQKGYQSX63Z3Y" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presentation to be released on 18 October\u2013$17.99</span></a></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"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------------</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">When You are Gone</font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------------</font></p><img src="cid:ii_mv2i7vtc1" alt="image.png" width="300" height="224"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></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\u2019ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating:</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">Work to preserve your genealogical information while you are alive\u2013do not expect your descendants to do it for you.</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">You can tell them what to do with it when you are dead. But when you are dead, dead is what you are and they will do as they wish.</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">You can have a clause in your will as to what is to happen to your \u201cgenealogy papers,\u201d but remember:</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">Executors can exercise some discretion and probate judges and other heirs are more likely to focus on bills being paid, property being maintained, and items of value being dealt with properly. If they all agree to look the other way while the executor dumps your papers in the garbage on trash day, it could happen.</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">You can bequeath your papers to a library, but they generally do not want file folders of material that are unorganized and difficult to follow, stacks of photocopies of pages from books that are easy to obtain elsewhere, compiled material that is unconnected to any local family, etc. They may not have the money to maintain your material and they may be not able to take it. Just because your will says to give it to them does not mean they have to accept it and preserve it forever. That\u2019s not the way it works.</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">Garbage day is Friday. Your funeral was on Wednesday.</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">When you are dead\u2026you are dead.</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">Plan for what\u2019s to happen to your material when you still have the ability to see that it happens.</font></p><p 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">US Local Land Records</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 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><b><i>Land records have you confused? We have the answer.</i></b></span></font></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-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reading the Deed Books: US Local Land Records for Genealogists</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'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'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'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'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&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&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><br></div><div></div></div><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><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">This session will expand on the \u201cMetes and Bounds with AI\u201d presentation. It will include additional and more convoluted examples of metes and bounds properties, discuss platting out properties in federal land states involving sections and townships, and include an example of a metes and bounds description in a federal land state. This session presupposes that the listener has a basic understanding of land record terminology and knows how to locate land deed records as those topics are not a part of this presentation. </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">Release date: 15 October 2025.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=C4JG43VE263BW" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Early order price: $18.99</font></span></a></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 includes audiovisual file and handout. </font></span></p></div><div><p 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">Getting the Most from US Census Records</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><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">This session will help you to get the most from United States census records\u2013covering from 1790 through 1950. We will start with what you should do when you find any census enumeration\u2013which is not to transcribe it. We will highlight the questions asked, talk about using enumerator instructions, see how to get as much from a census enumeration as possible, determine when a census suggests other records be searched, and more. </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 cover typical errors and how those arose, concerns about reliability of the informant (did they just guess at information?), reasons why people lie, and more. </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 talk about research strategies for people who are difficult to find, ways names get written and transcribed and how to formulate a census search plan those individuals who are difficult to locate. </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">The presentation will last approximately ninety minutes. Purchase includes media file and handout.</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"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=H4MQXGKGGXM9U" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Pre-release order price is $15.99.</font></span></a></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">Release date: 16 October 2026.</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">
</span></p><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:"Open Sans";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-wrap">Ready-to-Go Webinars from Michael\u2013download immediate:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><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/using-ai-as-a-genealogy-consultant/" target="_blank">AI as a Genealogy Consultant</a>--New!</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/creating-childrens-stories-from-genealogy-information/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;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: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/creating-families-from-pre-1850-census-records/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;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: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/deedmapper-intro-and-more-deedmapper-webinars/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">DeedMapper webinars</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/2026/02/19/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 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/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 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/2026/08/05/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 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/" 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