Articles related to "Land Deeds"



Basics of Land Deeds
Don't forget this often overlooked source of family history. Land deeds can offer a lot more genealogical information that you may realize.
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FINDING LAND DEEDS
How to find the deeds to your ancestors land
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Finding Your Homes History
Researching the history of a historic home is as valuable as the home itself.
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Find Your Family Tree – Genealogy Info at Home
Do a genealogical home survey to find info for your family tree. Look for birth, marriage, death certificates; legal & citizenship papers, military and school records.
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Homestead Act Records
The Homestead Act of 1862 led to millions of people being given large tracts of land, for free. These claims resulted in lots of documentation that you may want to find.
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GENEALOGICAL SEARCH ENGINES: PART II
Using the Social Security Death Index to find ancestor's place of death, and use the information to go backwards in time to find birth location.
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Mayflower Passenger John Billington
The Billingtons, not members of the Plymouth religious community, were trouble from the start. John Billington was probably the first American executed for murder.
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Riverside, California's Historic Mission Inn
Stunning, ornate, legendary - the St. Francis Chapel at Riverside, California's Historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is a monument to its visionary: Frank Augustus Miller.
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17th Century English in the New World, part one
An article about 17th century's Roger Williams, author of "A Key into the Languages of America," and the beginnings of American English.
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Phantom Indian Tribes?
The named 13 Long Island Indian tribes recorded in history and taught today to schoolchildren never even existed as such. Find out how the myth of these tribes became historical reality.
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Sample Assessment: First in a series of reviews
A sample of a free report from Celtic Histories in Dublin. Hopefully this will show you what kinds of services would be available from each of these companies.
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The Railway and the Treaty: Boyhood, History, and Racism
Ted Stenhouse's first two books "Across the Steel River" and "A Dirty Deed" depict the unlikely friendship between Will, a white boy, and Arthur, a Blackfoot Indian, in 1940s Alberta. Together they discover some of the secrets of small-town Grayson and its citizens.
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