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Tracking Our Ancestors’ Footprints Through Federal Land Records
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Nathan Shepherd
vpprograms@fxgs.org
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Tracking Our Ancestors’ Footprints Through Federal Land Records: An Interactive Mini-Escape Room for Genealogists with Sharon Cook MacInnes
Land records are a common stumbling block for genealogists of all experience levels. How do you find them? How do you use them? In this interactive workshop, participants will find answers to these and other questions about federal land records before teaming up with other Society members to analyze land and other documents about two real, interrelated families. Participants should leave this workshop with experience using federal land records and a better understanding of the role these records play in genealogical research in the United States. Some lucky–or skilled–participants will even leave with a prize!
Sharon Cook MacInnes is a professional genealogist, lecturer, teacher, and writer. As a recent past member of the National Genealogical Society's Board of Directors, she co-authored the NGS course “Advanced Skills in Genealogy” (2022). Sharon is the author of “The Keystone: Essential Guide to Pennsylvania Historical County Records” plus eight books documenting the earliest landowners of Pennsylvania. She posts many free PA resources on her website, www.ancestortracks.com.
Her ancestral discoveries include a young English separatist couple who came into Puritan New England in 1638; a 17-year-old British lad who sold himself into bondage for five years in 1722 to make the trek into Maryland Colony alone; a 14-year-old German girl who immigrated into the Colony of Pennsylvania with her family in 1738, and countless others.
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