If you pursue genealogy professionally, or as a hobby, the odds are you collect a lot of information in electronic format. The items I have range in size and importance, but they include e-mail (with family information) from near and far, scanned information, photographs from the past and present, digital copies from far and wide, …
October 2009 archive
Oct 31
Burdick Family Land Records – Liber 3 page 326 , Wexford County, Michigan
I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update with each post. The names of members of George W. Burdick’s family appear quite often in the …
Oct 30
Granny’s Land Record Transcriptions
I received a Facebook comment with regard to my land record spreadsheet. I asked permission and added the comment at the end of the post here on my blog. A Facebook comment is soon lost in the feed of status updates, link posts and other miscellaneous garbage stuff information, and I prefer that comments and …
Oct 29
Locating Property and Landmarks in Michigan.
As I have studied the land records of my families in Michigan, I have used a variety of maps and resources to be sure I know the location of each piece of property. I have likewise used multiple resources to visit homes, cemeteries, libraries and other research locations. Many of these are familiar, but perhaps …
Oct 27
Liber 2 Page 403 Land Records, what next?
I am writing a little about my experience working with deed records, using Wexford County, Michigan as an example. After I had collected a list of the names and location of the records, I started through the deed record books using my form. It might be helpful to explain that although recording this information directly …
Oct 26
Wexford County Deeds, Part 2
Now I had a neat spreadsheet of land records I extracted from the Wexford County, Michigan index books. What should I do next? There were so many deeds, and I was not equally interested in them. Or, at least at the moment I created my list from the index, some were more important to me …
Oct 23
Wexford County Deeds
Several years ago I read some deed indices in Wexford County, Michigan, looking for transactions for our ancestors. Papa had to travel to Cadillac, the county seat and our former home, for work, so I just hitched a ride and had him drop me at the courthouse. I did not go just once, I went …
Oct 22
Jane Johnston’s Locket
This locket was given to me on Christmas, by my Aunt Jane Yearnd Devereaux. Aunt Jane was my father’s sister, her full name at birth was Margaret Jane Yearnd. This note which accompanied the locket describes three items, I will get to the others in later posts. Inside the locket Here is a larger photo …
Oct 20
Progress and Pain
Back on December 28, 2008 I made some resolutions, on which I will report progress today in this post. This is not a 30 day or quarterly report, I am writing it because I don’t know what else to write today, and this may help me decide what to write tomorrow. No more foot dragging, …
