To John Polk - For the afternoon classes on Individual Consultations on Mapping Software, can you explain what it deals with. I don't want to waste one of your 6 spots. I'm a Waller with family from Salisbury traced back to 1820's but not exactly where in Salisbury. Can this help me in anyway? Ken [email protected] writes: >Three weeks from today is the annual and ever-popular LDS all-day >(free) workshop in Baltimore. Registration form and course rundown at: > >http://www.baltimorefamilyhistoryworkshop.org/ > >Something for everyone who can get there, and the price is right. >Upwards of 300 sign up for this well-organized affair. I'm doing three >lectures, and John Polk and I will be available in the afternoon for >the described consulation sessions. Early signup is recommended. > >John > >*************************************** >QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Have a Happy Day :)

The normal first questions we have at these consultation sessions are "Who's the ancestor you're interested in?" and "What properties of his [patents or other records of ownership] do you know?" Even if you can't answer the second, using the database we can usually help put you in a better position to focus your research in land (and other) records. There were certainly Wallers in the area ("Salisbury") you're asking about. We can show you which Waller properties there were, by which Waller they were owned and exactly where they were. Even if you haven't connected your ancestor to his parentage, this sort of exhibition usually presents you with candidate relatives and narrows your search window. Waller genealogies should be consulted, too. The Wallers were a well-known and well-landed Somerset family from early times. In 1666 John Waller had his 300 acre WALLERS ADVENTURE laid out on the south side of Little Monie Creek. His descendants acquired many properties through patent, deed or inheritance across the generations. The bulk of these came to be in what's now northern Wicomico County (from Salisbury north and west to the State line) and the abutting parts of southern Sussex. Almost 150 old Somerset surveys mention Wallers. Though many of this total refer to Waller neighbors, the database we're using captures not only ownership but citations such as "near Waller's mill" or the like, often helping to guide research or aid in understanding. The point, though, is that the overall picture we have can trace movements of many specific Wallers though several generations. The brief consultation session gives you an opening window into all this, but it's only a part of building an overall profile of your lineage. Being armed with this data will likely lead you into using mdlandrec and plats.net (and other sources), for which the morning lectures - esp. the "Primary Land Records" session - are designed to help orient you. John -----Original Message----- From: Ken Waller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Aug 21, 2010 11:52 pm Subject: Re: [LDR] Sep 11 LDS Workshop in Baltimore Polk class in Mapping Software. To John Polk - For the afternoon classes on Individual Consultations on Mapping Software, can you explain what it deals with. I don't want to waste one of your 6 spots. I'm a Waller with family from Salisbury traced back to 1820's but not exactly where in Salisbury. Can this help me in anyway? Ken [email protected] writes: >Three weeks from today is the annual and ever-popular LDS all-day >(free) workshop in Baltimore. Registration form and course rundown at: > >http://www.baltimorefamilyhistoryworkshop.org/ > >Something for everyone who can get there, and the price is right. >Upwards of 300 sign up for this well-organized affair. I'm doing three >lectures, and John Polk and I will be available in the afternoon for >the described consulation sessions. Early signup is recommended. > >John > >*************************************** >QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Have a Happy Day :) *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message