In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.
November 2 – Study how US state borders changed over the decades
using references such as the Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States,
dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas.
US State borders usually changed when they were territories to becoming states. For example, my home state of Wisconsin; was at one point, part of the Michigan territory but broke off to become its own territory. That territory included all of present-day Wisconsin, as well as parts of North and South Dakota and all of Minnesota and Iowa. When it finally became a state, it lost that section of Minnesota too.
Remember to have fun and Just do Genealogy!
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