Past Event
Saturday, June 21, 2014, 9 a.m. to noon
Across the Prairie: Land Records in Public Land States
off Pangea Drive, San Diego, 92093
Cost: Free
The Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego meets the third Saturday of each month.
9 am: User groups: MAC, Dona Ritchie; Ancestry, Del Ritchhard.
10:20 am: "Across the Prairie: Land Records in the Public Land States" by Jamie McManus Mayhew.
Land records form the largest group of records for our ancestors and often leave the only clues to marriages, deaths, and relationships. By the mid 1800s, it is estimated that up to 90% of white males in the United States owned land. When records were destroyed, land records were the first to be recreated, leading to land records where no other records exist.
Mayhew, a researcher for over 20 years, specializes in Southern California research.