Lineage of Land: Tracing Property Without Recorded Deeds (a 2023 Reisinger Lecture)

Shannon Green, CG, CGG
Oct 20, 2023
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Welcome
1m 27s
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Introduction
8m 43s
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Thomas Hicks
11m 17s
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1741 - Revolution
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1782 - Family Drama
9m 44s
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1787 - Private Law
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1820 - Attempted Claims
5m 16s
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Questions / answers
7m 07s

About this webinar

This case study traces a piece of property for two hundred years, from the Native Americans to the Dutch, to the English, and through fourteen members of the Hicks family over five generations. Transfer of title occurs through various instruments, including patents, unrecorded deeds, inheritance, escheatment, private laws, entails, deeds of lease and release, life estates, and coverture. Tracing the lineage of the property elucidates family relationships that were otherwise forgotten.

This class is presented live at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City as part of the Joy Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series and is being broadcasted by Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

About the speaker

About the speaker

Shannon Green, CG, is a genealogy researcher, writer, and educator. She started looking into her ancestry in 2010 and has been debunking family lore, overturning famil
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  1. CC
    Cathy Cline
    12 months ago

    Good example of why you need a lawyer involved in land transactions! LOL!

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  2. EB
    Eve B Mayes
    12 months ago

    Well done!! Destroyed records makes tracing land ownership so difficult. Glad you got lucky with those donated papers! Thank you for making this available to us!

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  3. JP
    J. Paul Hawthorne
    12 months ago

    Shannon rocks! Very well researched and presented.

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  4. JH
    Jonelle Hilleary
    12 months ago

    Very useful.

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  5. VH
    Vicki Hilb
    12 months ago

    Very knowledgeable speaker. Very clear and overall great presentation

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  6. DM
    Dee Mathews
    12 months ago

    Land records can be very difficult to find and understand. Shannon did a wonderful job of showing us how she traced complicated land records for this Hicks family. Her visuals were wonderful and she was wonderful in explaining what had happened to the land as she went along..

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  7. MS
    Mary Sanphilipo
    12 months ago

    Very well presented

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  8. CB
    Cheryl Bohn
    12 months ago

    This fun webinar imparted a lot of information that could have been dry & caused people’s eyes to glaze over. Instead, the missing family information set up the questions that needed answers. The examples provided an interesting vehicle to learn how the law impacted our ancestors’ claims to property. Shannon illustrated an incredible array of untapped sources for records & clues. Just when you believe you’ve found “everything,” you learn there are clues yet to be discovered to answer our questions.

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