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Across the Prairie: Land Records in the Public Land States Speaker: Jamie Lee McManus Mayhew

1/1/2014

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - Yorba Linda Community Center
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Land records form the largest group of records for our ancestors and often leave the only clues to marriages, deaths, and relationships.  By the mid 1800’s it is estimated that up to 90% of white males in the United States owned land. When records were destroyed, land records were the first to be recreated leading to land records where no other records exist.

Where do you find land records?  What is the difference between State Land States and Federal Land States?  Did our ancestor receive Bounty Land? Was he or she a homesteader? How can you find out where the land your ancestor owned is today?

Jamie Lee McManus Mayhew is a genealogy researcher and speaker and has been a genealogist for over twenty years.  She currently serves as president of the California State Genealogical Alliance, education chair and webmaster for the Genealogical Society of North Orange County California, board member of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, member of the FamilySearch Research Wiki community council and moderator for the California state research pages on the FamilySearch Research Wiki. Jamie was recently part of the research team for the PBS show Genealogy Roadshow. Further information can be found on her website, http://www.californiacousins.com.


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10/15/2014 06:53:17 am

Hi Jamie,
You spoke at our SOCGS mtg. in Sept. and gave an example of search that was perfect for my search dilemma. However, I tried to repeat your methods and did not get the same results.

My great grandmother, Emma Jane Hagaman Fields came from a family in Carroll County, Ohio. She was born there in 1846. From her Journal and other sources, we had no indication she might have been adopted. Yet, when I looked at her 1924 Missouri death certificate a few months ago, it did not list her parents as Elizabeth and Nathaniel. Instead, the father was a George Fields, mother unknown, birthplace Cuyogha County, Ohio, corect birth year 1846.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong when using your method to get to any records?

This is a shock to us. We had no indication from her descendants that this could be true. It would change so much. All I can tell you is that the funeral director made little errors or omissions with other datas that make me suspect. Val Greenwood states in his Evidence book that, death certificates are not primary (and could be inaccurate) due to second and third hand contributors involvment.

We have been at this Genealogy work for 25 years and covered huge histories in our families but, of all, this Question probably is the most important to us and our descendants. Could you help me, please?

Naomi McCabe

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