{"id":10685,"date":"2019-10-03T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2019-10-03T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:05:02","slug":"mapping-those-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/03\/mapping-those-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Those Properties?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your ancestor was a landowner, do you know exactly where their property was located? Do you know the acreage and the dimensions? Do you know what geographic features were nearby? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the difficulty I had with this property was that I had not looked to see where it was.  The property was oddly shaped and that was partly due to the Platte River and the railroad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local land records office may be able to help you locate the property&#8217;s precise location. Local libraries, historical societies, or genealogical societies may have copies of county-wide plat books that show the landowners for specific pieces of property.  There may be survey maps in the local recorder&#8217;s office that show how parcels were drawn out as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For individuals who received federal land, there are a variety of survey maps that can show where property was located even if the owner&#8217;s names are not listed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But having a representation of what the parcel looked like and how it fit into the neighborhood can help your research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/goldenstein-focke-t-timber-claim.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/goldenstein-focke-t-timber-claim.jpg 890w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/goldenstein-focke-t-timber-claim-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/goldenstein-focke-t-timber-claim-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor was a landowner, do you know exactly where their property was located? Do you know the acreage and the dimensions? Do you know what geographic features were nearby? Part of the difficulty I had with this property was that I had not looked to see where it was. The property was oddly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}