{"id":11255,"date":"2020-02-05T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=11255"},"modified":"2020-03-31T07:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:56:47","slug":"us-land-records-class","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/us-land-records-class\/","title":{"rendered":"US Land Records Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>US Land Records<br>April\/May 2020 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confused by US land records?<br>Wondering how to best search and use them for your own research?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This class of 5 sessions will provide you with the tools and the skills to make better use of these records and search them more effectively. Michael has over thirty years of experience searching and using US land records in his research&#8211;both in federal and state land states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Join us and learn how to better use and understand these records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Structure:<\/strong><br>Attendees will download the actual lecture to view at their leisure several days before the discussion session to follow. This allows attendees to view the presentation without connectivity issues and they can stop and pause the presentation as they need to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Attendees will have a Google group for class discussion outside of class online &#8220;meeting time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Discussion sessions will be the time to ask questions \u201clive.\u201d Lectures can be replayed a often as you want&#8211;even well after class is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Content:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Week 1\u2013discussion of different types of deeds, terms and definitions, record keeping practices and procedures, types of land ownership, and women\u2019s property ownership changes over time.<\/li><li>Week 2\u2013discussion of metes and<\/li><li>bounds legal descriptions, property descriptions in metes and bounds states, pre-Federal land records, and general research strategies in those states.<\/li><li>Week 3\u2013discussion of legal descriptions in federal land states, property descriptions in federal land states, and an overview of federal land records (bounty lands, cash land sales, homestead claims, etc.).<\/li><li>Week 4\u2013online demonstration of actual land record searches using indexes and records selected from online materials at&nbsp;<em>FamilySearch.<\/em><\/li><li>Week 5\u2013online demonstration of search techniques and approaches to the federal land patents hosted at the Bureau of Land Management website.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homework:<\/strong><br>Homework&nbsp;<em>is optional<\/em>\u2013there\u2019s no grade.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Week 1\u2013two local land records<\/li><li>Week 2\u2013two metes and bounds deeds<\/li><li>Week 3\u2013research problem in a federal land state<\/li><li>Week 4\u2013a \u201ccan you find\u201d it problem where records needed are available free online at&nbsp;<em>FamilySearch.<\/em><\/li><li>Week 5\u2013no \u201chomework,\u201d but problems will be posted to our discussion forum a week before the lecture.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schedule\u2013discussions (attendance&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>is not required<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;as they will be recorded and available for download):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5 April 2 pm. central time\u2013discussion 1<\/li><li>12 April &#8212;<em>no class<\/em><\/li><li>19 April 2 pm. central time\u2013discussion 2<\/li><li>26 April 2 pm. central time\u2013discussion 3<\/li><li>3 May 2 pm. central time\u2013discussion 4<\/li><li>10 May 2 pm central time&#8211;discussion 5<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=GSTT7KF8TQKHE\" target=\"_blank\">Registration is only $50<\/a>. All handouts are included and there is one for each lecture. Students also get download copies of the lectures.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=GSTT7KF8TQKHE\" target=\"_blank\">Registration is limited-<\/a>-join us now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Land RecordsApril\/May 2020 Confused by US land records?Wondering how to best search and use them for your own research? This class of 5 sessions will provide you with the tools and the skills to make better use of these records and search them more effectively. Michael has over thirty years of experience searching and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}