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From the Alberta Genealogical Society.
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1885‒1897, Applications for Alberta Land Patents (Project)
From the Alberta Genealogical Society.
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Alberta Genealogical Society - Alberta Homestead Indexes
Search 1885‒1897 Applications for Alberta Land Patents; Search 1870‒1930 Alberta Homestead Records; Search Post‒1930 Alberta Homesteads Records; Additional Land Resources.
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Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Homsteading
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
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Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota
A book by H. Elaine Lindgren.
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
A book by Elinore Pruitt Stewart.
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Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own
A book by Sarah Carter.
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Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier
A book by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith.
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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
A book by Joanna Stratton.
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A book by Roger Welsch.
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Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West
A book by Marcia Meredith Hensley.
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Ancestry.com - Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930 $
Original source: Homestead Grant Registers. R190-75-1-E. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Arphax Publishing Co. - Home of the Family Maps Land Patent Books
The Family Maps Land Patent Books are published county by county, state by state. Data for each county is compiled from the Federal Land Patents database and displayed in these customized books. All books include a Patent Map and Patent Index for each of the Congressional Townships within the county. Deluxe Editions also include for each Township: a Road Map and a Historical Map, which includes waterways, watercourses & railroads. The Road and Historical Maps also include city-centers and cemeteries that can be found at NationalAtlas.gov. All books contain a separate Surname/Patent Index and a Surname/Township Index to help you dive into the right area of the county to find the location of your ancestor's federal land purchase. Family Maps books are a helpful visual reference tool that makes your federal lands research easier than ever.
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Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records
The Official Land Records Site for the United States. This site has a searchable database of more than five million (1820-present) Federal land conveyance records, including scanned images of those records. There are also images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. The site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.
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Document Requests - Land Entry Case File
Explanation of steps involved to get copies of the National Archives and Records Administration Land Entry Case Files.
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Search Documents By Type, By Location, By Identifier
There are 4 documents in the search: Patents, Survey Plats and Field Notes, Land Status Records, Control Document Index. Patents are for 49 states and DC. Survey Plates and Field Notes are for Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Land Status Records are for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota. Control Document Index is for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.
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FamilySearch - United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
3,907 tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants.
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Information about how to use the tract books in your research.
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A table that helps you determine which tract book volume to browse. It is sorted by State Land Office/Volume Number and Description. Use the BLM GLO database first to determine the township and range for your ancestor's land.
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Inexpensive webinar for sale from Michael John Neill.
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Brought to you by Arphax Publishing Company, HistoryGeo.com is a family history software service for linking old maps and land records to your genealogy research. This is a subscription-based site with more than 7 million landowners in the Western Land States and growing.
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Discover ancestry for the famous and infamous with an emphasis on where those people roamed. Links to online sources included, with subscriber-only links into HistoryGeo.com maps. Will also include how-to articles for HistoryGeo.com subscribers.
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New historical website is heaven for genealogists
An article about HistoryGeo.com by Sharon Tate Moody for the Tampa Tribune.
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An overview of the various homestead acts.
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Examples of some of the homestead forms available from the Provincial Archives, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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A transcription of the text from the act.
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Homestead Records Broken Bow Nebraska Land Office
In an effort to begin preserving and providing wider access to the information in the records, Homestead National Monument of America, located in Beatrice, Nebraska, and the University of Nebraska
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If This Land Could Talk - Homesteading on the Northern Plains
A family history book chronicling three generations from first homesteader in 1880 to 1950 in Kidder County, North Dakota. Includes significant historical events for Kidder County. Surnames: Price, Williams, Shirley (Sj
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