Presenter: Dana Palmer

Dana Palmer, CG, CGL specializes in lineage society applications, publishing family books, and Midwestern research - specifically Ohio, but she also has experience with genealogy research in Germany, Denmark, and the U.K. In addition to her client work, she is part of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Silver books team. She has lectured at RootsTech, the National Genealogy Society (NGS), International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP) Conference, and several other conferences.

Program: Did your ancestor live in the Northwest Territory? Discover records available for these early settlers. This lecture will discuss records in the northwest territory and how to find them.  We’ll briefly cover settlement in the Northwest Territory. We’ll then cover finding Northwest Territory records including deeds / patents / military bounty land, territorial papers, the federal land series, court records, and the Draper Manuscript collection. Examples will be shown how to use the Reconstructed Census of the Northwest Territory 1790 & 1800 book to find the original records cited in the book. Last a short case study will be shown for Nathan Ellis of Adams / Brown County, Ohio, and the process used to find records to show he lived in the Northwest Territory before Ohio’s statehood.