Last night, I did some searching on ancestry.com and learned a few things. First of all, this time, instead of doing a general search on my ancestor through the main search screen, I did a search from my ancestor from the tree screen. I was able to much more easily comb through the results returned because ancestry.com applied some filters for me.
I was searching for records on Martin Dominick, Jacob Dominick's son. I already had his birth and death dates in my tree and knew that he was born and died in Alabama. I selected Martin Dominick from my tree and clicked the option to search records. I then modified the search criteria that ancestry completed for me and asked to do an exact match on place (Alabama) since I knew he had not lived anywhere other than Alabama.
I then looked at the results and instead of just clicking on the usual stuff (census records, etc), I decided to review some of the Court, Will and Land records and was shocked to actually get some hits. I don't know why I was that surprised; it’s just that I had never really used ancestry for that kind of look up before.
Anyway, I found some tax records and and US land grant records! I will post the results of my record search on another post but just wanted to share this tip.
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