It Goes with the Territory! Find Your Ancestors in Pre-statehood Records
Alice Hoyt Veen, CG
Content
Welcome
1m 9s
About BCG
4m 43s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 8s
Introduction
3m 26s
Northwest Ordinance
5m 4s
Pre-federal frontier
5m 6s
Federal land distribution
13m 47s
Governing the frontier
1m 39s
Statehood
4m 27s
Your ancestor
2m 3s
Territorial records
17m 55s
Announcements
1m 1s
Questions / answers
11m 2s
About this webinar
From the Old Northwest to the Hawaiian Islands, the United States has acquired and settled new lands. If your ancestor pioneered pre-statehood territories, they may have left records valuable to documenting and understanding their lives. Discussion includes a timeline of territorial settlement and governance, and strategies for locating and using territorial records.
About the speaker
Alice Hoyt Veen, CG, is a board-certified genealogist and full-time professional researcher and educator. She is a sixth-generation Iowan whose genealogical specialties include Midwestern and territor...
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Comments (105)
Excellent history lesson and helpful resources. Learned a great deal. Thank you.
Very good presentation. Learned a lot and will view it again.
This was on the 15, Feb, however I had a medical emergency and unable to watch the webinar, I am so glad I was able to make the time to view it while it was still available. I learned a great deal, thank you so much for sharing this with us.
excellent presentation. informative.
Presentation was well organized and delivered very well. I now have ideas how to find records on my ancestor. Thank you for this great presentation.
Very well presented - information on slides was well organized and clear - resource list will be very helpful. I will be listening to this again.
Very insightful discussion
This was excellent. It was fascinating to learn about the evolution of the various territories, something I did not understand before tonight.