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Discovering Your Family in Frontier Neighborhood Maps |
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"Discovering Your Family in Frontier Neighborhood Maps" is the topic of speaker Gregory A. Boyd, J.D., to be presented at the February 6, 2006 general meeting of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society.
Mr. Boyd plans to discuss how "mapping first land-owners in the 29 public-land states may unveil countless clues to many familiesâ?? histories. Maiden-name possibilities leap from these maps, as well as friends and individuals from related families who migrated together across our great nation. Mapping these land-patents on your own, though rewarding, is neither for the fainthearted nor the researcher without loads of spare time. Gregory A. Boyd will explain his â?Family Mapsâ?? project which does the mapping for you and that will ultimately result in county-by-county land-patent maps being produced for most of the public-land states (including much of Oklahoma). More particularly, Boyd will explain how family historians can use these powerful tools to learn more about their ancestors, their relationships with others, and the lands where they
lived."
The Oklahoma Genealogical Society general meetings are held each month at 6 pm in the Auditorium of the Oklahoma Historical Society, 2100 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City. Volunteer genealogists will be available at 5 pm to provide help with research questions.
For more information contact
http://webmail.att.net/wmc/v/wm/43D40E74000694F30000326C2161243646970A029D010C060D?cmd=ComposeTo&adr=okgensoc%40aol%2Ecom&sid=c2 or call the society President at 405-286-1190. The OGS website is www.rootsweb.com/~okgs/
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Bio
Gregory A. Boyd, attorney, software engineer, and genealogist, is author of the Family Maps series of Federal Land Patent books and co-founder of the Norman, Oklahoma-based, Arphax Publishing Co. Genealogists, historians, archaeologists, and cartographers around the country daily turn to Boydâ??s patent-maps to locate ancestral land and to analyze frontier neighborhoods. To date, Boyd has mapped well over one million land patent records from the Bureau of Land Managementâ??s General Land Office database. Arphax Publishing Co. is publishing three new land-patent books each week for counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin. Other states will be added soon. More can be learned of the books that have been published thus far at www.Arphax.com. Greg, a Phi Beta Kappa member, holds both B.A. (in Political Science) and J.D. degrees from the University of Oklahoma.
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