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How to Find and Plat Your Ancestor’s Land in Arkansas
How to Find and Plat Your Ancestor’s Land in Arkansas
Presented by Caroline Shultz, Heritage Seeker member
Researching land transactions is part of any genealogy research. As you put together your family’s history, you may want to include where they lived or where they originally settled. If you want to add more than the paper trail, visual interpretations and/or locations are a great way to make that story come alive.
Using the BLM records gives you the original transactions and some consequential transactions as well. Adding the Arkansas Surveyor information gets you to the actual piece of land. Then, using the maps and coordinates, you’ll really see where they live.
Caroline Shultz has been researching her family history since 1998 when a tiny magazine article inspired her to see if she could find any of her Cohoe ancestors. Within a few months, she had connected with another researcher who had already taken the Cohoe family back to circa 1720 in Pennsylvania. She has been busy filling in the gaps since then!
Through the years, she has made many research trips to ancestral homes and locations, discovering the long and rich history of her family. Through her treks, she was given the original 1838 marriage certificate of her Quaker ancestors in Canada. Recently adding DNA, much of that paper trail has been confirmed.
Caroline has her Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University (2017), and has attended SLIG, RootsTech, and IGHR multiple times. She has been a member of Association of Professional Genealogists and several other Genealogy Societies. Calling All Cousins Genealogy Research is her business endeavor for the last 7 years. Caroline is also a long-time member of Heritage Seekers & is responsible for the website & Facebook..
Caroline was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but only lived there a short while. She has lived all over the US and has visited almost every state except North Dakota. She has also lived in Panama and South Korea and has visited many foreign countries. She moved to Arkansas in 2011 as a birthday present for her sister. This is the longest time she has ever been in one location in her entire life.
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