{"id":8312,"date":"2018-05-01T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2018-05-01T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:37:13","slug":"us-land-records-class-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/us-land-records-class-may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"US Land Records Class-May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6896 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 0.857143rem; margin-bottom: 0.857143rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/deed-pa-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/deed-pa-cover.jpg 389w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/deed-pa-cover-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to again offer <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=6772\">our 5-week session on United States land records in May 2018<\/a>. Land records can shed a fair amount of light on your genealogical research&#8211;as long as they are understood and thoroughly researched.\u00a0 Learn more about these records, how to research them, and how to analyze and interpret them.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has researched his own family extensively in land records for over thirty years, both in federal and state land states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<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>\n<li>Week 2\u2013discussion of metes and bounds legal descriptions, property descriptions in metes and bounds states, pre-Federal land records, and general research strategies in those states.<\/li>\n<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>\n<li>Week 4\u2013online demonstration of actual land record searches using indexes and records selected from online materials at <em>FamilySearch.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Week 5\u2013online demonstration of search techniques and approaches to the federal land patents hosted at the Bureau of Land Management website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=6772\">Registration and more details are on our announcement page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to again offer our 5-week session on United States land records in May 2018. Land records can shed a fair amount of light on your genealogical research&#8211;as long as they are understood and thoroughly researched.\u00a0 Learn more about these records, how to research them, and how to analyze and interpret them. Michael [&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-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","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=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}