Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Do Some FamilySearch Full-Text Searching

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  FamilySearch Full-Text Search continues to add databases and searchable images to their collections.  This is a gold mine, especially of land, probate and court records.

2)  Pick one or two of your ancestors and see what you can find on FamilySearch Full-Text Search about them.

3)  Share your Full-Text Search find(s) in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post.  Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.

Here's mine:

After re-reading my genealogical sketch for Martin Carringer (1758-1835) of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, I realized that he was granted land in Ohio after the Revolutionary War.  Is there a deed for this land being granted or sold?  

On FamilySearch Full-Text Search, I put [+martin +carringer] in the name field, [Ohio, United States] in the place field, and [1780 to 1850] in the year range field.  I received 144 results from all over the United States, so I filtered the Place to [United States, Ohio] and received 32 matches of pages with the name Martin and Carringer on the page.  That took about five minutes to find what I wanted.

I found that Martin Carringer was granted land in Holmes County, Ohio in 1803 as a result of his Revolutionary War service.  The first image of the grant, signed by President John Quincy Adams in 1828 - is below.  

I downloaded the two images and the transcript for this Grant Deed to my computer and now have additional material for future Amanuensis Monday posts.

In addition, I found one more deed in Holmes County, Ohio where Martin Carringer sold the land to Jacob Conrod in 1831.  More Amanuensis Monday fodder that adds to Martin's life story.  

Not bad for ten minutes of searching on FamilySearch Full-Text Search!

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