Content
Welcome
2m 38s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 32s
Introduction
1m 9s
Land Records
3m 50s
State Land States
7m 33s
Processioning
4m 2s
Entry
11m 14s
Warrant
3m 10s
Surveys
1m 54s
Fees Paid
28s
Patents
1m 30s
Virginia Patents
3m 26s
NC Patents
4m 3s
Land Lottery Georgia
2m 42s
Manuscript Collections
9m 31s
Land Maps
1m 34s
Deeds
1m 46s
Deed Indexes
5m 28s
Summary
2m 42s
Announcements / prizes
8m 0s
Questions / answers
13m 40s
About this webinar
People recorded evidence of their property, paid taxes on property, gave away property, bought and sold property, fought over property, and willed property to heirs in the 20 state lands states. When understood and used properly, metes and bounds land records comprise one of the most important sources for research in America.
About the speaker
Mary E.V. Hill, MLS, AG® (Mid-Atlantic States); worked as reference librarian at BYU from 1989-1992, as genealogy instructor at BYU from 1992-1995, as Family History Library US/Canada Reference consul...
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Comments (1)
Several corrections / updates on North Carolina patents. (1) The Master Card File Index has not been at the Secretary of State Land Office for several decades. It is now at the State Archives of North Carolina Search Room. Those index cards have also been microfilmed / digitized on familysearch. (2) The State Archives replaced their MARS system with DOC in 2018. The same data is there and searchable, it's just arranged differently. They have online tutorials include a document specifically on searching for land grants. (3) The free website nclandgrants.com links all the MARS data with digitized microfilm images and provides the most comprehensive and easy to use access to NC patents. It has over 800,000 (and growing) images, including ones not found anywhere else online like the entire site of patent books and all records related to Lord Granville Grants.