Thank you all for your very helpful and clear guidance about plotting/platting using DeedMapper or another program. Your advice was very useful, as was the DeedMapper website. I also looked at the Rootsweb DeepMapper list briefly and subscribed.
It looks to me like it would be very worthwhile to try to plot/plat deeds in a specific locality -- a county or an area of a county. It appears that trying to plot a lineage -- say my husband's Phillips family -- from 16-something forward would not be practical. They moved around a lot and bought and sold [...]45_22Jul200916:26:[log in to unmask]
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