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Analyzing Deeds for Useful Clues

From the Board for Certification of Genealogists - Skill Building - January 1995.
Beyond the Index--Michael John Neill's Articles in the Ancestry Daily News
- Get Wild! Using % and _ at the BLM Site
- Homestead Records Detail Pioneer Life
- Lots of Leads from A Little Lot
- Milling Around for Leads
- More Tracking the Tract
  
  A follow up to using the tract index .
- Mortgages, Signatures and Geometry
  
  An 1878 recorded mortgage that contains an actual signature and a metes and bounds description of the property.
- N-S-E-W
  
  Information on land descriptions in Public Land States.
- National Genealogical Society | Online Courses
  
  The courses are open to anyone who wishes to enroll. Members of the National Genealogical Society (NGS) receive a tuition discount.
  - Working With Deeds
    
    A self-paced course designed for genealogists who want to learn about various types of deeds and how information contained in them can help solve research problems.
- Rural Roots
  
  This article discusses some ideas for searching for rural ancestors, particularly those in the mid-nineteenth century and later.
- Tracking The Tract
  
  An introduction to the tract index.
- What to Expect from a Deed
- Where Did the Farm Go?
GLO for the Gold in Land Records - Family Tree Magazine

Using Land Patents, by Nancy Hendrickson
How to Search Deeds

From DoHistory.
- Form for Deed Research Notes
Information found in deeds

This extensive tutorial with examples shows the types of information that can be found in deeds and how to use that information in research. From GSC Associates.
Research in the Land Entry Files of the General Land Office

Reference Information Paper 114 from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
ShopFamilyTree.com - Family Tree University $

Independent Study Courses (CD or download) from the publishers of Family Tree Magazine.
- Land Records 101 (CD)
  
  By Diana Crisman Smith.
- Land Records 101 (Download)
  
  By Diana Crisman Smith.
Taking The Mystery Out of Land Records

By Linda Haas Davenport. Description of the History of Land Records and how to use Land Records in family history research.
The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy - Ancestry.com Wiki

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles.
- Overview of Land Records - Ancestry.com Wiki
  
  This article originally appeared in "Land Records" by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Those Elusive Early Americans: Public Lands and Claims in the American State Papers, 1789–1837

Article by Chris Naylor for Prologue, the quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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