There are several things you will want to bring with you when doing cemetery photography for genealogy research. Photographing gravestones can be a very rewarding adventure for the avid genealogist. There are basic ways to do it that you will want to remember. Learn more in this article on some specifics for improving your cemetery photography [...]
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Ancestry.com Free Trial Several good reasons exist to use land records in your family history research. The most important ones are talked about below. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants The nine states that awarded bounty lands in their western reserves or on their western borders (directly affecting the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and [...] You will work with many family photos in your genealogy research and eventually want to share them, perhaps at a family reunion. It used to be that if you wanted to share family photos you had to make extra prints to give out. Today, you can share your family history photos the old-fashioned way, or [...] Eventually an heir usually came about who wished to sell, or pass down, his land the way he wanted and so wished to get rid of the entail. This was called “docking” the entail, or eliminating it. Was there a way to turn land back from Fee Tail to Fee Simple so the heir could do what he pleased with it? Most authorities seem to agree that, in Virginia, docking was very [...] Ancestry.com Free Trial You must be able to interpret the laws in relation to land and succession of land when working with early land records. Following the ownership of land from one generation to the next is very useful for family history research, as well as exciting. The term Entail is one we will [...] Ancestry.com Free Trial Heraldry is the practice of creating, verbally describing (called blazoning) and granting Armorial Bearings (also called a Coat of Arms, or Armory) to an individual, and of recording the genealogy, or family tree, of that line. Ancestry.com Free Trial An important part of a families life before 1850 was owning land. 9 out of 10 adult males owned land. From 1600s on land records have always been very well maintained in America. Many times land deed records will list people not appearing on census data. Every county in the USA has a [...] |
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