We have three new webinar topics for August:
- Federal Land Descriptions
- Determining What's On FamilySearch
- Did Your Ancestor Get a Union Civil War Pension?
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Time
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Topic
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Cost
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Description
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Register
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10 August 2012
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10:00 AM Central
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Sections, Townships, Base
Lines and Meridians: Land Descriptions in Federal Land States
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$8.50
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This presentation will
provide an overview of how land is described in Federal land
states, beginning with base lines and meridians and working down to sections
and quartersections. We’ll see how to interpret a legal description,
determine the approximate acreage, and create property maps.
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10 August 2012
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12 Noon Central
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Understanding What’s On FamilySearch:
Do Multiple Databases with Similar Titles Confuse You?
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$8.50
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This presentation will focus
on American databases on FamilySearch.org. Do you know what you are really
searching when you search aFamilySearchdatabase? Do you understand the
difference between three databases with similar titles that cover “the same
thing?” We will look at several examples during this presentation and provide
a general framework for determining (when you can) what a database really is.
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10 August 2012
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2:00 PM Central
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Did Your Civil War Ancestor
Get a Pension: Ways to Determine if your Serviceman Applied
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$8.50
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We will look at several
online finding aids to pensions, some offline finding aides, and a general
research strategy for determining if your Civil War ancestor received a
pension.
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