BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GenWebinars - ECPv6.13.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://genwebinars.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for GenWebinars REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240810T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240810T113000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240703T031848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T135153Z UID:10000076-1723284000-1723289400@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Focus on North Carolina: Finding and Understanding Court Records DESCRIPTION:Courts in North Carolina have always had the role of dealing with crimes and disputes\, but in the past they also handled much more routine items that can be of great interest to your research.   County courts handled many functions now done by other government offices such as proving deeds\, probate\, petitions\, taxes\, appointment of local officials\, licenses\, bastardy\, manumission – the list goes on.  To complicate things the type of courts and what they were responsible for has changed over time.   This discussion will help you know not just what you can find but how and where to find it. \n\n *** IMPORTANT *** This webinar is part of our Focus on North Carolina series of four webinars. You may purchase a Series Pass for all four Saturday webinars for $85 (a $15 discount)\, or a ticket for this webinar individually. Please select which option you prefer below. We also have weeknight and other options for this series. For more information see Focus on North Carolina\n\nIf you are not purchasing a Series Pass\, you must use code ncone85 at checkout to get all four Focus on North Carolina Webinars for $85 (saving you $15 off the regular price). All four of your mix and match sessions must be purchased in the same order. This coupon will expire at midnight August 4\, 2024\, and is only good for the Focus on NC Series. Please note\, you may not combine this coupon with any other discount. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/t752b-nc1-courts/ CATEGORIES:North Carolina,Records ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/nc1-courts.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240806T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240806T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240702T183604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240807T194612Z UID:10000066-1722972600-1722978000@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Focus on North Carolina: Finding and Understanding Court Records DESCRIPTION:Courts in North Carolina have always had the role of dealing with crimes and disputes\, but in the past they also handled much more routine items that can be of great interest to your research.   County courts handled many functions now done by other government offices such as proving deeds\, probate\, petitions\, taxes\, appointment of local officials\, licenses\, bastardy\, manumission – the list goes on.  To complicate things the type of courts and what they were responsible for has changed over time.   This discussion will help you know not just what you can find but how and where to find it. \n\n *** IMPORTANT *** This webinar is part of our Focus on North Carolina series of four webinars. You may purchase a Series Pass for all four weeknight webinars for $85 (a $15 discount)\, or a ticket for this webinar individually. Please select which option you prefer below. We also have Saturday and other options for this series. For more information see Focus on North Carolina\n\nIf you are not purchasing a Series Pass\, you must use code ncone85 at checkout to get all four Focus on North Carolina Webinars for $85 (saving you $15 off the regular price). All four of your mix and match sessions must be purchased in the same order. This coupon will expire at midnight August 4\, 2024\, and is only good for the Focus on NC Series. Please note\, you may not combine this coupon with any other discount. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/t752a-nc1-courts/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/nc1-courts.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240703T020453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240725T175625Z UID:10000073-1721849400-1721854800@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:How Far? How Heavy? How Much? When Did It Happen? Learn About the Different Numbers Our Ancestors Used in Their Daily Lives (General) DESCRIPTION:Genealogical researchers are always coming across numbers when researching their ancestors\, but often don’t know what they mean.  How far is a distance of 43 poles? Is a Troy ounce the same as a modern ounce? Is hogshead a real term or something the Beatles made up? How about money – was 10 pounds in Pennsylvania the same as 10 pounds in North Carolina? Even calendar dates can get confusing – what do they mean by February 15\, 1745/6? This webinar will discuss the history and meaning of different measurements like lengths\, weights\, distances\, and volume\, as well as money and calendars to make your research more meaningful. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/b526b-numbers/ CATEGORIES:General ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/numbers-crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T120000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240520T011244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240714T030419Z UID:10000057-1720866600-1720872000@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Using Artificial Intelligence Tools in Genealogy (AI) DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is here\, and the hype is real.  Although it is not the answer to all the problems we encounter with genealogical research\, it can be a useful assistant in many ways. \nDocument analysis: summarizing information from long documents or even groups of documents such as wills and deed abstracts. \nReading handwriting: Many important documents have never been transcribed or abstracted.  AI tools can be used to assist with these tasks\, even producing an index of names that appear. \nImage processing: AI tools can process images such as maps and pull out all the names that appear. \nWriting assistance.  AI can help organize your ideas and even write detailed research results or at least summaries for you.  If you’d prefer to do the initial writing yourself\, AI can proofread and provide suggestions for improvement. \nGenerating illustrations: It is often difficult to find a public domain image to illustrate a concept you are writing or talking about.  AI can provide many images to chose from\, and allows you to refine them. \nHistorical context: AI can provide information about a specific time and place or event\, but always be careful to double check. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/n600b-ai-genealogy/ CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Techniques,Technology ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/ai-genealogy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240517T150006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240628T023139Z UID:10000047-1719430200-1719435600@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Using Artificial Intelligence Tools in Genealogy (AI) DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is here\, and the hype is real.  Although it is not the answer to all the problems we encounter with genealogical research\, it can be a useful assistant in many ways. \nDocument analysis: summarizing information from long documents or even groups of documents such as wills and deed abstracts. \nReading handwriting: Many important documents have never been transcribed or abstracted.  AI tools can be used to assist with these tasks\, even producing an index of names that appear. \nImage processing: AI tools can process images such as maps and pull out all the names that appear. \nWriting assistance.  AI can help organize your ideas and even write detailed research results or at least summaries for you.  If you’d prefer to do the initial writing yourself\, AI can proofread and provide suggestions for improvement. \nGenerating illustrations: It is often difficult to find a public domain image to illustrate a concept you are writing or talking about.  AI can provide many images to chose from\, and allows you to refine them. \nHistorical context: AI can provide information about a specific time and place or event\, but always be careful to double check. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/n600a-ai-genealogy/ CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Technology ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/ai-genealogy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240624T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240624T120000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240519T235756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240625T150412Z UID:10000053-1719225000-1719230400@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Tracing Land Ownership Over Time: Forwards\, Backwards\, and from the Middle (Land) DESCRIPTION:Land ownership records can provide numerous clues not only about family relationships but also about the individuals themselves and the area they lived in.  They can be used to help reconstruct neighborhoods at a given point in time to assist with F.A.N. (Friends\, Associates\, Neighbors) research as conceived by Elizabeth Shown Mills. \nIn order to do this\, one needs to know who owned a particular parcel of land at a given time period\, or at least who lived there.  This information primarily comes from conveyances: the transfer of ownership of a specific piece of land from one party to another using deeds\, land grants\, or other methods.  These records theoretically should exist for every transfer\, but unfortunately they don’t.   Records get lost due to natural or human-caused catastrophes\, deeds never get recorded as they should\, and in the case of inheritance they may not even be required. \nThis lecture will discuss determining land ownership by either starting from the original owner and working forwards in time\, or from the owner today and working backwards.  You can also start at any point in between and trace ownership in either direction.  We will start with ideal examples where all records are present\, and then discuss what to do when they are not.  Creating neighborhood maps of the results will briefly be discussed. \nWe will also discuss how to use new Artificial Intelligence tools to assist in this process. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/n327b-tracing-land/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/tracing-land.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240517T150432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240618T175018Z UID:10000048-1718652600-1718658000@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Exhausted All the Deeds? Use Other Land Records to Uncover Even More Information (Land) DESCRIPTION:Land records not only provide evidence of time and place\, but they often provide information about family relationships\, neighbors\, wealth\, occupations\, and much more.   The millions and millions of deeds in existence are by far the most numerous land records\, and extremely important in genealogical research.  Books\, articles\, websites\, and other references on researching land records almost always focus on deeds.  However\, there are other types of records related to land which can be even more useful where you might find something unexpected like “Margaret Williams died without issue on the 17th day of October 1794”.  This lecture will discuss those records using real examples\, how to find them\, and their value in your research. \nLand records are generated for reasons such as obtaining land\, losing land\, conflicts over land\, and land taxation.  Conflicts related to property ownership typically ended up in court\, giving the possibly of finding documents such as depositions.  However\, court records can be difficult to find or understand\, especially since some commonly used words and phrases have different meanings today and can lead to misinterpretation.  There are also records that are not land records but can contain a wealth of information about land\, such as estate files.  Even deeds sometimes have associated records not filed with the deed\, such as mortgages or liens. \nDeeds weren’t the only way of obtaining land.  Land grants are property obtained directly from the government. The process of obtaining a grant involved multiple steps and could take several years\, resulting in a useful paper trail.  There could even be records showing your ancestor applied for a grant but never received it.  Military service was sometimes rewarded with land known as “bounty land”\, and those records can provide detailed records of service such as “Elescius Mason [was] a private in … Captain Phagans Company of the 39th infantry\, on the 13th January 1814″. \nAll of these records and more will be explained\, as well as information on how to interpret property descriptions using as metes and bounds and the public township/range system\, and how to find old county boundaries. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/a594a-other-land/ CATEGORIES:Land Records ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/otherland.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T120000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240519T212212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240615T224200Z UID:10000051-1718447400-1718452800@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Understanding Time and Place by Finding\, Using\, and Creating Historical Overlay Maps (Land) DESCRIPTION:It’s always exciting to find where your ancestors lived. The specific county can often be determined by written documents\, but counties can be quite large and their boundaries and even names could change over time. Land records combined with maps can not only help narrow down an ancestor’s specific location\, but also provide clues to the lives they lived\, the church they attended\, where they did business\, their access to transportation\, and most importantly who else lived nearby. This information is probably not on a modern map\, but it could be on an old map. Old maps can also help resolve issues such as no longer used names of creeks\, towns\, or other landmarks. \nWe can always compare old and new maps side-by-side\, but more accurate results can come from overlaying an old map on top of a modern one. In the past this took skill\, time and effort\, and some old maps were not very precise making this task almost impossible. Fortunately\, there are free tools that let you perform these overlays on your computer. In addition to finding landmarks\, you can use modern soil and terrain maps to help get a lay of the land\, and maps showing old jurisdiction lines to help determine where to look for records. This lecture will help you find old maps and will demonstrate several software tools for making overlays. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/g801b-overlay-maps/ CATEGORIES:Land Records ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/overlay.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240610T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240610T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240516T175741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T232612Z UID:10000046-1718047800-1718053200@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Tracing Land Ownership Over Time: Forwards\, Backwards\, and from the Middle (Land) DESCRIPTION:Land ownership records can provide numerous clues not only about family relationships but also about the individuals themselves and the area they lived in.  They can be used to help reconstruct neighborhoods at a given point in time to assist with F.A.N. (Friends\, Associates\, Neighbors) research as conceived by Elizabeth Shown Mills. \nIn order to do this\, one needs to know who owned a particular parcel of land at a given time period\, or at least who lived there.  This information primarily comes from conveyances: the transfer of ownership of a specific piece of land from one party to another using deeds\, land grants\, or other methods.  These records theoretically should exist for every transfer\, but unfortunately they don’t.   Records get lost due to natural or human-caused catastrophes\, deeds never get recorded as they should\, and in the case of inheritance they may not even be required. \nThis lecture will discuss determining land ownership by either starting from the original owner and working forwards in time\, or from the owner today and working backwards.  You can also start at any point in between and trace ownership in either direction.  We will start with ideal examples where all records are present\, and then discuss what to do when they are not.  Creating neighborhood maps of the results will briefly be discussed. \nWe will also discuss how to use new Artificial Intelligence tools to assist in this process. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/n327a-tracing-land/ CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Land Records ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/tracing-land.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T203105 CREATED:20240408T212051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240608T021119Z UID:10000006-1717702200-1717707600@genwebinars.com SUMMARY:Understanding Time and Place by Finding\, Using\, and Creating Historical Overlay Maps (Land) DESCRIPTION:It’s always exciting to find where your ancestors lived. The specific county can often be determined by written documents\, but counties can be quite large and their boundaries and even names could change over time. Land records combined with maps can not only help narrow down an ancestor’s specific location\, but also provide clues to the lives they lived\, the church they attended\, where they did business\, their access to transportation\, and most importantly who else lived nearby. This information is probably not on a modern map\, but it could be on an old map. Old maps can also help resolve issues such as no longer used names of creeks\, towns\, or other landmarks. \nWe can always compare old and new maps side-by-side\, but more accurate results can come from overlaying an old map on top of a modern one. In the past this took skill\, time and effort\, and some old maps were not very precise making this task almost impossible. Fortunately\, there are free tools that let you perform these overlays on your computer. In addition to finding landmarks\, you can use modern soil and terrain maps to help get a lay of the land\, and maps showing old jurisdiction lines to help determine where to look for records. This lecture will help you find old maps and will demonstrate several software tools for making overlays. URL:https://genwebinars.com/upcoming/g801a-overlay-maps/ CATEGORIES:Land Records ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://genwebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/overlay.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR