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'''Content.''' Tract books show the type of land entry, its legal description (numbered section, township and range), acreage, price, entryman's name, application date, and (if applicable) patenting date and numbers.<ref name="Haw5" /> | '''Content.''' Tract books show the type of land entry, its legal description (numbered section, township and range), acreage, price, entryman's name, application date, and (if applicable) patenting date and numbers.<ref name="Haw5" /> | ||
'''Arrangement.''' | '''Arrangement.''' If you know (or can guess) the state and county where an ancestor started a land claim, you can search each of tract books for that county page-by-page looking for the ancestor's name. When you find an ancestor's name in a tract book, the legal land description in the tract book is usually enough to order a copy of the case file from the National Archives. | ||
Tract books for some states, such as Alabama and Ohio are organized by land office. | The National Archives in Washington, DC has a '''''map index ''''' to each state's tract books which allows researchers to identify the tract book number that covers the area in which they are interested.<ref name="Haw4" /> | ||
In addition, "Appendix A" in ''Land and Property Research in the United States '' lists each present-day federal land state and county together with its farthest north-, east-, south-, and west- township and range for that county, and the meridian(s) that applies. | |||
Tract books for some states, such as Alabama and Ohio are organized by land office. Others are organized for the whole state. | |||
==== For Further Reading ==== | ==== For Further Reading ==== | ||