Digging for Ancestors: An In-Depth Guide to Land Records
Michelle Roos Goodrum is a family historian, genealogist, speaker, and writer with a passion for research in land records, organization, and photography.  She became involved in family history in the early 1990s when she realized her ancestors saved everything from important family documents to the smallest trinkets. Michelle is now the caretaker of over 130 years of her family’s history. Some of the dusty documents she uncovered are related to her ancestors’ homes which sparked an interested in land and property records. She loves traveling to their former homes to get a feel for what their lives might have been like. Michelle is a regular  contributor to The In-Depth  Genealogist  where  she pens  the column  “Timeless  Territories”  for  the  monthly  digital  magazine, Going In-Depth (http://theindepthgenealogist.com/going-in-depth/), and contributes regular  blog posts. She regularly  blogs at The Turning of Generations  (http://turning-of-generations.blogspot.com/) where  she  writes  about  discoveries  in the family  home,  preserving and organizing them  for  the  future  as well  as other  family  history  topics.