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Contents

• The opening pages
• Chapter 1. Finding your land three ways
• Chapter 2. Checking the outline
• Chapter 3. The report as it builds
• Chapter 4. Your report arrives
• Chapter 5. The opening and "This land today"
• Chapter 6. The record behind every sentence
• Chapter 7. The ground
• Chapter 8. Water and weather
• Chapter 9. The people before the surveyors
• Chapter 10. The surveyors arrive
• Chapter 11. First owners
• Chapter 12. The families
• Chapter 13. Seen from above
• Chapter 14. Getting here
• Chapter 15. Timeline
• Chapter 16. If you're hooked: what to do next
• Chapter 17. About this report: the appendix
• Chapter 18. Detail and Written for
• Chapter 19. Look deeper into this
• Chapter 20. Everything we can look for
• Chapter 21. My research list
• Chapter 22. Printing a report and saving it as a PDF
• Chapter 23. Copy my link
• Chapter 24. My land, Forget this land and Larger text
• Chapter 25. What you see and what to do
• Chapter 26. Telling us about a mistake
• Chapter 27. Short answers
• At the back: words, further reading and about this manual

Pages from the printed book

Who made it

Your Land History is a project of Dr. Bob Zybach and Dr. Dave Sullivan. The manual is revised when the website changes, and each edition carries its date.

How to cite this book

Your Land History (Dave Sullivan and Bob Zybach). 2026. Your Land History: The User’s Manual. Edition 1.1. YourLandHistory.org/books/users-manual.

Using this book

Proposed reuse terms, not yet adopted. You may copy and share these books for any noncommercial purpose, as long as you credit the authors and do not change them (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0). Some pictures belong to others and are not covered by these terms; Picture sources, at the back of each book, lists them.

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