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Lineage of Land: Tracing Property Without Recorded Deeds (a 2023 Reisinger Lecture)
Shannon Green, CG®, CGG®, CGL®
Content
Welcome
1m 27s
Introduction
8m 43s
Thomas Hicks
11m 17s
1741 - Revolution
7m 12s
1782 - Family Drama
9m 44s
1787 - Private Law
5m 56s
1820 - Attempted Claims
5m 16s
Questions / answers
7m 7s
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
Shannon Green, CG®, CGG®, CGL® , is a genealogy researcher, writer, and educator. She started looking into her ancestry in 2010 and has been debunking family lore, overturning family traditions, and w...
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Comments (105)
Good example of why you need a lawyer involved in land transactions! LOL!
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!
Shannon rocks! Very well researched and presented.
Very useful.
Very knowledgeable speaker. Very clear and overall great presentation
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..
Very well presented
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.