Sigh. Genealogy is a labor of love. Ive been searching this weekend to figure out how/why a young man between the age of 16 and 21 acquires 80 acres of land in Kentucky in 1787. He was too young to have served in the Revolutionary War, so unless they had squatters rights (which were available under an act of the Virginia legislature), he had to have inherited it in place of his father who served. I want to find out who his father was. The tricky part is that in 1787, there was no state of Kentucky. It was still part of Virginia. And every 2-5 years the county lines were reformed. So the land record could literally be ANYWHERE. I spent over 2 hours yesterday reading flipping through books in the Family History Library in SLC. Then several more hours online. The attendants at the FHC gave me some tips so that I could continue online searches at home, and all afternoon I have searched to no avail. They also said that out of all the books housed in the FHC, less than 10% of them have been scanned and/or indexed. So I should probably come back and keep flipping through the books (there are hundreds of books on Kentucky). Im burned out :/
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:30:34 +0000
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