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Date change for BLM and Female Ancestors to
Wednesday 12 March 2025
not too late
Attend live or pre-order a recording--$20 each after recording is made. Save $5 each now!
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tract Books
This presentation will discuss what the BLM tract books are (they keep track of complete and incomplete federal land transactions), how to search them (focusing on manual searches for when the index does not work), what clues can be gathered from these records, accessing additional records suggested in the tract books, documenting your searches of these books.
Researching Female Ancestors
This presentation discusses approaches and techniques for determining an ancestor’s maiden name and locating “missing” females. Geared towards the advanced beginner or intermediate researcher, it focuses on American records and sources before World War I. The content is not specific to any one time period and many of the approaches can be refined for different locations or types of records. Concepts discussed will include:
- overview of women’s legal rights;
- property ownership;
- inheritance;
- citizenship;
- and strategies for making the most from what you can find.
If you are stymied on your female ancestors–and half your ancestors are female–this presentation may give you the insight you need.
Researching US Newspapers
This presentation will discuss finding copies of newspapers (digital and microfilm), searching newspapers (digital and manual searches), saving images, organizing images and your search process, and creating citations.
Michael John Neill has over forty years of genealogical research experience and has utilized records in a variety of states in the Midwest, New England, and the Southern United States.
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