Content
Introduction
5m 56s
Deed Processing
5m 46s
Common Deed Types
6m 33s
Deed Research Process
9m 7s
Uncovering Relationships
12m 42s
Slavery Related
13m 42s
Community Research
5m 55s
About this webinar
Deed Records are one of the best records for researching family history, but their legal language can intimidate even seasoned researchers. In this session, Ms. Smith describes the various ways that land records can help our genealogical research not just on our ancestors, but also on the communities in which they lived. Land records can tie together multiple generations of a family and provide evidence for relationships. They can also shed light on the social history of a locale, which is important information to add context to the lives of our ancestors.
About the speaker
Robyn Smith has been researching her family and others for over twenty-five years. She specializes in court and land records, genealogy skill building, and slavery research. A respected speaker in the...
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Comments (5)
Just now seeing this and needing it. I have never used a deed record for research before. I have been missing so much! Thank you
Robyn is an excellent speaker, and presents this topic in a way that is both interesting and informative; She gives descriptive examples and makes using land records easy to understand. I enjoyed her lecture and will look forward to hearing other lectures from her.
Excellent
This was an incredible webinar, so full of insights and new information for me. Robyn is an excellent speaker and infects us with her enthusiasm.
Very good webinar - I love deeds as genealogical records. \nOne note: Married women could also be left things by their parents or siblings, tied up in such a way that the husband cannot access it. I have several ancestors who clearly disapproved of their sons-in-law and thus left things to be held in trust by executors (sometimes "while she shall remain married to..." if they wanted to make it explicit that it was him they were objecting to). Always leaves me wanting to know the gossip!