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Have a great day!
Juliana

CD Map Program
George Farrell

The "Trailer Life RV Campground Finder" is one of the very best nationwide travel map programs. It is on one CD that you can carry with your laptop. List price is $39.95, but I have seen it on sale on the web at under $16.00. It contains great detail including many cemeteries, churches, libraries, public and historical buildings, etc. You will spend more than that on paper maps, and you don't have to refold them. You can browse or search by full or partial address. Zoom in to see the details. Many of the features are named. It also shows and names things like railroads, streams, etc. If you point at a location with the mouse, the address pops up. Look at Chicago and see the Newberry Library. In Boston, the Granary Burying ground appears complete with little headstones. You can print the maps as well.

For traveling researchers: detailed location and information on campgrounds, trailer parks etc. Click on a red circle and full information is available in a drop down side bar. It has ratings, detailed directions, whether tent camping is permitted, prices, etc. There is a directory to nearby interesting places. If you need sleeping accommodations, many travel parks have low cost cabins, some with kitchens. A few cabins even include bathing and toilet facilities. Others have bathhouses close-by.

Not All Buried There
Dot Sale

Never presume where an unmarried relative has been buried. I did and he wasn't where I thought he would be. My Scottish ancestors are buried in a family plot in Toronto. My mother's cousin's mom and dad were there, as was his mom's unmarried sister, whose ashes he had interred there himself. I presumed that that would be where he would want to be.

After receiving a letter from his niece letting me know of his passing the previous month, I wrote back enquiring where he had been buried. In the meantime, I had changed all of my family records accordingly including where I thought he was now buried. Imagine my surprise when I received a quick reply informing me that he had been buried with his older sister and her husband in a different cemetery entirely. Hopefully, I'll learn not to jump the gun next time. I consoled myself that at least I had found out where his sister was buried.

Re-visiting Court Records
Miriam Dapra

In Sherry Irvine's column "Going Back for More--Reflections on Trafalgar Day," she reminded us that, if we set aside genealogy searches for months or years, we should revisit the Internet sites we've already searched, because new information is constantly being added.

I "accidentally" found a new way to search, also, after leaving research "dormant" for a long time, especially in regards to land records. I thought that I had already culled all the land records I could from the courthouse in the county where my paternal grandfather owned land. Now that my family is faced with a possible legal challenge from someone who claims he owns land that we always thought belonged to us, a new round of "courthouse searching" has uncovered some new and valuable information that would not have been found otherwise.

So, are you stuck on a land problem? Think of it in terms of proving in a court of law how the landowner obtained the land, and you may come up with a lot more information!