Deeds are valuable for genealogy, but other land records such as processioning, ejectments, homestead exemptions, and foreclosures can contain that valuable information you’ve been searching for.

Land records can determine where your ancestor lived, but maps can provide clues to their lives, their church, business activity, access to transportation, and most importantly who lived nearby. Learn how to use websites and software to overlay old maps on top of modern maps to help extract this information.