On May 20, 1785, the United States passed the Land Ordinance of 1785, which set precedent for how the government’s acquired land would be divided up and sold. Graphing refers to land described using the Rectangular Survey system. Land Graphing, just as land platting, involves drawing out the land description found in a land record, usually a land grant (the first sale of the land from the government to an individual) or a land deed (subsequent sales of the land between individuals). Land platting, however, is only half of the equation! Here in Part II we’ll talk about Land graphing, which is similar to platting but used in different situations. In Part I of this two-part series, we discussed the importance of Land Platting – drawing out property boundaries as given in land records. These records do more than simply record where an ancestor lived or what property they owned they can be a wealth of information about relationships, economic status, and much more!
To see more detail view our larger format world time zone map.Land records are an incredibly important resource when doing genealogy research in the United States. Time zones to the east of the Greenwich meridian are later and time zones to the west of the Greenwich meridian are earlier.
The Greenwich meridian time zone is 7 1/2 degrees east and 7 1/2 degrees west of zero degrees longitude. This line runs through the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali and Ghana in Africa. The time convention begins with Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) which is also commonly referred to as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) being located at the Greenwich meridian. In theory time zones are based on the division of the world into twenty four time zones of 15 degrees longitude each.
The world time zone map indicates the standard time zones actually observed. Most countries do not adjust their time zone observance and when they do it most likely involves small boundary changes or changes in the observance of daylight saving time. The world time zone map uses a repeating color scheme to designate the different standard time zones observed in each country.
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