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The Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records
The Official Land Patent Records Site. This site has a searchable database of more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908, including scanned images of those records. The Eastern Public Land States covered in this database are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin. Images of Serial patents, issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's are currently being added to this web site.
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GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Documents 1789-1980
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Find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including all of the American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 133,000 reports, lists and documents. New content added monthly.
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Indian Bounty Land Applications
Article by Mary Frances Morrow.
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Land Ownership Maps in the Library of Congress
A list by state, county and year, of the maps available in the collection held at the Library of Congress.
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Land Record Research Directory
List of other researchers and the areas they are researching in.
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Explains a number of methods of locating old deeds.
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Links to available state & county Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices. Online public records may include copies of deeds, parcel maps, GIS maps, tax data, ownership information and indexes. Some Recorders' offices have marriage and birth records available online.
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Research in the Land Entry Files of the General Land Office
Provides an overview of the land entry files held at the National Archives and an introduction to using these records in your research.
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The National Archives | The Catalogue | Research Guides: A to Z
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Where to Obtain Land Patents/Warrants
Locations of where to order or find land entry case files. All States.
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Where Two White Oaks Used to Grow
A Case Study In Using a Computer to Unpuzzle the 'Metes and Bounds of Your Ancestors' Land - And Finding It. By Richard A. Pence.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Search All Land and Property Databases
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An inexpensive, growing set of pay-for-use databases. Including vital records, court records, military records, and an extensive collection of newspapers.
