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Public Programs
Ninth Family History Seminar
Land Research Workshop

September 5, 2009
Alamo Hall, San Antonio, Texas
Special guest speaker Donald Raney
Sponsored by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library

Mr. Raney, a sixth-generation Texan who has been an active genealogist for over thirty years, spoke about finding ancestors in federal and state land records.

Armed with protractors, participants practiced mapping land boundaries and drawing plats using the metes and bounds method of land measurement and description.

Seminar attendees learned about where to access land records in various formats; how to locate ancestors' land in records and on maps; and how land has historically been distributed and acquired in the United States.

From left to right: Elaine Milam Vetter, DRT Library Committee Chairman; Mr. Donald Raney; Leslie Stapleton, DRT Library Director.

Proceeds in excess of expenses benefited the Herpich Conservation and Restoration Fund of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library.

We invite you to attend our Tenth Family History Seminar in the summer of 2010.
Watch our Family History Seminar page and our blog for information about
next year's event.

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