Websites for Maps & Land Records
SCGS Spring 2021
Discussion Group
(To access these websites directly from this document, click on the blue link - Only 1 website does not have a blue link.)
General Information for this Discussion Group Series:
Mapping Your Ancestry with Google Maps (from Thoughtco)
USA Printables (map outlines of the 50 states)
Where to find historical land ownership maps (from Thoughtco.)
(06/07/21)
Map collections
(06/14/21)
Explanation of and index to finding Sanborn fire insurance maps of US & Canada, 1867-1977. (from Thoughtco.)
or information on the history of Sanborn Maps
(06/21/21)
Land grants, patents, homesteads and plats online (from Thoughtco.)
A timeline of US public land acts, including sales, military bounty, preemptions, donations, and the Homestead Act (from Thoughtco.)
Firelands or Sufferers’ Land, in present-day Ohio, for CT residents whose homes were burned by the British in the Revolutionary War
(06/28/21)
Finding your ancestors’ deeds (from Thoughtco.)
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(07/12/21)
Reading and understanding deeds
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(also has info on Donation Lands, Depreciation Lands, etc.)
(07/19/21)
Platting your ancestors’ land from an old deed (from Thoughtco.)
