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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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GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Documents 1789-1980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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Glossary of Common Land and Property Terms
By Kimberly Powell
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Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy
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The world's largest collection of online US and world property ownership maps (over a quarter million, soon to be one half million) and atlases. See where you ancestors lived by going back in time with our maps. Illustrations, photographs, and city directories are searchable by surname.
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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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LAND-RESEARCH Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding land and property research in the United States and its applications in genealogy.
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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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