The next North Carolina Genealogical Society WEBINAR will be available totally free to the public September 20-22, 2013 on www.ncgenealogy.org:
Helen F. M. Leary, CG (Emeritus), FASG will present Mapping Your Ancestor’s Land – How to Do It and Why Bother?
Do you know how to plat (map) your ancestor’s deed? If not, you won’t want to miss this next webinar! Helen Leary will teach you Mapping Your Ancestors’ Land.
Deeds are the key to determining family locations, relationships between persons, and solving the riddle of one man or two of the same name. The first step to discovering these relationships is to map, on paper, the metes and bounds of the parcel. Helen’s example includes a meandering stream as well as other features commonly found in deeds.
Learn from Helen’s vast experience. Follow her instructions and you will be able to collect the data you need to find your ancestors anywhere that metes and bounds are used as land boundaries. This is a webinar you will want to see more than once.
Mapping Your Ancestors’ Land will be freely available on the NCGS website www.ncgenealogy.org for three days, 20-22 September 2013. After the 22nd it will only be available to NCGS members as a member benefit or by purchase of a CD from the NCGS online bookstore.
