The Family Maps series of Land Patent Books are published county by county, state by state, for original settlers whose purchases are indexed in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management database (www.glorecords.blm.gov). These are one-of-a-kind, customized maps and books created by attorney, software engineer, and family historian, Gregory A. Boyd.

For the first time, you can locate your ancestor's federal land purchase by simply finding them in a surname index, then an all-name index, which directs you to a map of first-land-owners. And now you can learn who your ancestors' neighbors were! The Family Maps books are a helpful visual reference tool that make your federal lands research easier than ever.
  
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          REVIEWS for the Family Maps™ series of books          
                                 by Gregory A. Boyd, J.D.                            



“Talk about instant gratification! For two decades, I’ve urged historical researchers to plat communities for clues to unknown kin. Boyd is now doing that chore for us—literally handing us the sheer joy of seeing those whole communities, county by county, state by state!”

---Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian





“Identifying neighbors is often crucial in identifying families. Now we'll have those names at our fingertips, thanks to Boyd's incredible on-going series!”

---Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG
Courthouse Research for Family Historians




“Boyd is performing a great service in providing a format where researchers can quickly see the lay of the land and identify neighbors and relatives who settled together.”

---Sharon Tate Moody, CGRS, Vice President, Association of Professional Genealogists
(See Sharon's complete review in the June 21, 2005 edition of the Tampa Tribune)




“In short, these books provide a huge amount of information of value to genealogists. Often the best method of finding individuals in these states is to plot the land sales to families, including all related families and even those unrelated individuals who traveled together to the newly-opening lands to start new lives. In the past, plotting the movement of such communities required many, many hours of poring over printed information, usually requiring the researcher to manually create crude maps for his or her own use. The Family Maps series of books do all that hard work for you!

These books are “must have” publications for anyone researching ancestry in the public land states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. ”

---Dick Eastman, Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, July 19, 2005

What's New

LIBRARY NEWS
THANKS go out to the The Newberry Library (Chicago), the Los Angeles Public Library, the Abilene Public Library (TX), the Denton Public Library (TX), and the Tulsa City County Library (OK) for your significant investment in the Family Maps series. You have joined a growing list of libraries dedicated to giving their patrons what they want and need in order to meet their research goals.

We will exhibit our books at the National Genealogical Society's Conference in the States in Richmond, Virginia, May 16-19, 2007 and at the Federation of Genealogical Society's Conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 15-18, 2007. Please come by and see why the experts are calling this series a "must-have." We will likewise be attending a few regional events, so stay tuned as we announce those at a later date.

We are currently shipping hardbound books to libraries all over the country. Contact Nancy Kinard, our Library representative for more information. Your patrons will be shaking your hand and shouting for joy, when they find never-before discovered clues in your "Family Maps" book collection. You should see the kinds of praise our researchers are sending us daily!

SAMPLE BOOK EXCERPTS NOW AVAILABLE!
Our researchers can now show their friends and fellow researchers what's so wonderful about our books. Just direct your compatriots to our new SAMPLES page at www.arphax.com/samples.html. There, you can view excerpts from our books, and more fully understand what makes these books the most valuable new research tool to come along in years.

SURNAME INDEXES NOW ON-LINE
Now, you can view the actual Surname Index pages from each of our books, when you go to each book's page within our Web-Store. The Indexes are in Adobe Acrobat format. To get the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader FREE, CLICK HERE.

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REVIEWS
We continue to receive WOWs from the experts. Here are a few examples. Dozens of newspapers around the country have picked up our story. More on this later . . .

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