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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. ” |
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