New webinar!

25 Brick Wall Strategies

Date/Time: 20 April 2016 at 7:00 pm central time

If you’ve enjoyed our “Brick Wall” series, this one will revisit some of our more popular approaches along with new examples and a few new tricks thrown in the mix. Sometimes it never hurts to hear something again, if only for the reminder. This presentation will include a handout with the concepts discussed and brief examples demonstrating the approach.

If you can’t attend live, registrants receive complimentary download of presentation and handouts afterwards.

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I’m excited about my 2016 trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

There’s still time to join me for a week of research at a time when the library is not crammed with other people or there is a conference going on.

Some of us plan quite a bit what we are going to do and others do not. I have a short list of things of my own I need to look up. It is important to remember that there are things at the library that are not online.

There are more details on our site. Our trip is informal and laid back. The only “scheduled” activities are a short meeting the first evening and (optional) morning sessions. Attendees are encouraged to plan ahead and meet with me during the trip to work on research strategies. That can be done before we leave as well online.

Otherwise it’s about the research.

This page on the Nebraska State Historical Society website allows users to search a “database (1860-1954 Tract Books Index) [that] has been compiled that allows researchers to locate references within the 163 land tract books that list the first owners of land in Nebraska.”

These are the tract books from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

The index does include some claims that were cancelled.

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Genealogy Search Tip of the Day is proudly sponsored by GenealogyBank.

Blank county maps can be used in many ways in family history research. This site from the United States Bureau of the Census has county maps for each of the fifty states.

“Reclaim the Records” obtained the right to post these indexes to Archive.org after the settlement of a lawsuit. These are images of the microfilmed copy of the index.