6 March 2020
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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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Bradley County Index of Marks and Brands
Index to Records of Marks and Brands, Book B, April 22, 1861 - February 15, 1927, Bradley County, Arkansas.
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Brand book (1882) (Internet Archive)
Containing the brands of Caldwell, Kansas and Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1882.
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Wyoming Stock Growers Association, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1883.
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Cattle brands owned by members of the Wyoming Stock Growers' Association. [1st] ed. (1882), 2nd ed. (1883), 3rd ed. (1884), 4th ed. (1885).
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Brand book containing the brands of the Cherokee Strip, authorized by Stock-men's Convention, held at Caldwell, Kans., March 1 and 2, 1882.
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Also, the brands of the Southwestern Cattle-Growers' Association, organized at Medicine Lodge, Kas., March 17 & 18, 1882.
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Online searchable database of Nebraska brands, maintained by the Brand Committee of the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office.
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Brands of the California ranches, ca.1840-1900
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960, USC Libraries.
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California Brand Book (Google eBook)
Bureau of Livestock Identification, 1921.
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From the Handbook of Texas.
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Cattle Brands: Ironclad Signatures
A book by Jane Pattie.
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Decoding the Range: The Secret Language of Cattle Branding
By Jimmy Stamp for Smithsonian.com.
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Division of Animal Industry's Brand books, 1849-1930
Utah State Archives Series 540. Brand books contain all livestock brands and ear marks registered with the State Department of Agriculture. Livestock is assumed to include all types of animals raised for pleasure or for profit. The 1917 law was the first to specifically mention cattle, horses, and mules as livestock [ Laws of Utah, chapter 105 (1917)], although the brands of these and perhaps other animals may have been recorded before then. Subsequent revisions of the brand law expanded the definition of livestock to include several other animals.
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FamilySearch - Texas, Swisher County Records, 1879-2012 FREE
Images of county records for Swisher County, Texas. Records include vital records, military discharges, probate records, deed records, marks and brands, court records and civil case files from the county and district courts. It is being published as images become available.
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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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Findmypast - Queensland Brands Directory $
This collection contains three large volumes that have tens of thousands of brands for stock in Queensland, Australia. The three volumes included are 1920 to 1921, 145 to 1948, and 1949 to 1952.
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Fold3 - Homestead Records - Broken Bow, Nebraska
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Land Entry Case Files of the Broken Bow Land Office, Broken Bow, NE: Homestead Final Certificates, 1890-1908. Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
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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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Homestead Records Detail Pioneer Life
Article by Michael John Neill that discusses using homestead records and what types of information these records typically contain.
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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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Inventory of Brand registers from Recorder of Marks and Brands, i 1849-1921
Series 597 at the Utah State Archives and Records Service.
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A web exhibit for the book by H. Elaine Lindgren.
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Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota
A book by H. Elaine Lindgren, for sale from Amazon.com
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Land Records: Ingalls Homestead File
Scanned images of 24 original documents pertaining to the DeSmet, South Dakota homestead of the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder. A terrific example from the National Archives and Records Administration.
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North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska.
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Livestock Brands - Cowboy Showcase
Reading and understanding livestock brands.
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Livestock Brands and Marks An Unexpected Bayou Country History: 1822
A book by by Christopher Everette Cenac from Amazon.com.
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Manatee County: Early Marks & Brands
Florida.
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Monroe County Marks & Brands 1831-1870
Missouri.
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Ebook by Board of Live Stock Commissioners of Wyoming, 1913.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, eighth supplement, July 1952
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, eleventh supplement, April 1953
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, fifteenth supplement, April 1954
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, fifth supplement, October 1951
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, fourteenth supplement, January 1954
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, fourth supplement, July 1951
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, ninth supplement, October 1952
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, second supplement, January 1951
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, second supplement, January 1951
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, seventh supplement, April 1952
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, sixteenth supplement, July 1954
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, sixth supplement, January 1952
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, tenth supplement, January 1953
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, third supplement, April 1951
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, thirteenth supplement, October 1953
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Oklahoma Brand Book, twelfth supplement, July 1953
From the Oklahoma Digital Prairie, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Queensland Family History Society: Brands & Licences
Australia. Horse and Cattle Brands Index - 1872; Horse and Cattle Brands Index 1873-1879; Horse and Cattle Brands Index 1880-1889.
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Saskatchewan Gen Web Project - Homestead Records.
How to read homestead record: Section, Township, Range, Meridian. Included: How to find Saskatchewan Townships & Ranges in a tutorial quiz.
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Saskatchewan homestead records, 1870-1930, and index
From the Family History Library Catalog.
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The Advancing Genealogist - V Bar Lazy 5
An article by Debbie Mieszala about researching a livestock brand in Montana records.
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By Richard Pence.
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A summary and transcription of the act.
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From Time Passages - Genealogy of the Dakotas.
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The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Land Records
Introduction and Links to Resources on Land Entry Case Files and Related Records.
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There are no Renters Here: Homesteading in a Sod House
This is the story of one woman who, with her husband and young daughter, left Indiana to start a homestead in Nebraska. Mattie Oblinger and her family left a treasure trove of letters, enabling us to gain some insight into her life, and the lives of many others who made a similar journey to become sod house pioneers in the American West. An online exhibit from the Women of the West Museum.
