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* If someone calculates a birth year based solely on a census record, it could be off by a year or more. Censuses only list a person’s age in years as of the date the census is taken, although younger children’s ages are sometimes broken down into years and months. For example, if a person was 20 years old when the 1900 census was taken, you might assume they were born in 1880. But if their birthday occurred a month after the census was taken, this would make their birth year 1879. | * If someone calculates a birth year based solely on a census record, it could be off by a year or more. Censuses only list a person’s age in years as of the date the census is taken, although younger children’s ages are sometimes broken down into years and months. For example, if a person was 20 years old when the 1900 census was taken, you might assume they were born in 1880. But if their birthday occurred a month after the census was taken, this would make their birth year 1879. | ||
Kraus closed with demonstrating ''FamilySearch''’s Source Box, a great place to store sources, especially if you are waiting to create a person until you have enough information. You get to this by signing into FamilySearch and then clicking on your name in the upper righthand corner. On the drop-down list, click on “Source Box.” The Source Box stores every source you have ever used. You can organize them by folder to make them more manageable or you can delete them once you have attached them to your tree or have determined that they are no longer relative to your research. | Kraus closed with demonstrating ''FamilySearch''’s Source Box, a great place to store sources, especially if you are waiting to create a person until you have enough information. You get to this by signing into FamilySearch and then clicking on your name in the upper righthand corner. On the drop-down list, click on “Source Box.” The Source Box stores every source you have ever used. You can organize them by folder to make them more manageable or you can delete them once you have attached them to your tree or have determined that they are no longer relative to your research. | ||
== Class notes for years prior to 2022 == | == Class notes for years prior to 2022 == | ||
=== | === Land Records === | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying_in_early_America Surveying in Early America] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying_in_early_America Surveying in Early America] | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plat Plat] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plat Plat] | ||
=== | === Helpful websites for your Family History Research === | ||
[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx Search Bureau of Land Management Records to find your ancestors Land Patents] | [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx Search Bureau of Land Management Records to find your ancestors Land Patents] | ||