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 ==== '''Public Domain Land Tract Sales'''  ====
-An index to over 550,000 names of original land owners from sales records of the U.S. General Land Office, the Illinois Central Railroad, and Illinois officials was created in 1984. Originally called the Public Domain Computer Conversion Project, it indexes the documents classified as "Record Groups 491 and 952" in the Descriptive Inventory of the Archives of the State of Illinois. This index provides the name of the purchaser and record identification number; sale type (federal, military, Illinois Central RR, canal lands, or school lands); description of land by section, township, range, meridian and county; number of acres; and date of purchase.&nbsp; All volumes are available at the Illinois State Archives and accessible through their [http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/PublicLandSalesNameServlet?purchaserNumber=0008987 website]. Volumes 661-716 are available at the Family History Library at {{FHL|899766-782|Film}}
+An index to over 550,000 names of original land owners from sales records of the U.S. General Land Office, the Illinois Central Railroad, and Illinois officials was created in 1984. Originally called the Public Domain Computer Conversion Project, it indexes the documents classified as "Record Groups 491 and 952" in the Descriptive Inventory of the Archives of the State of Illinois. This index provides the name of the purchaser and record identification number; sale type (federal, military, Illinois Central RR, canal lands, or school lands); description of land by section, township, range, meridian and county; number of acres; and date of purchase.&nbsp; All volumes are available at the Illinois State Archives and accessible by name of purchaser or legal description through their website&nbsp;entitled [http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/data_lan.html ''Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sale Database'']. Volumes 661-716 are available at the Family History Library at {{FHL|899766-782|Film}} with the land tract record index at {{FHL|6016848|Fiche}}
-===== Resources  =====
-*United States, General Land Office. ''Public Domain Sales Land Tract Record Listing, 1814–1925 (Index.)'' Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Archives, 1984. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=509439&disp=Public++domain++sales++land++tract++reco%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL US/CAN Fiche 6016848] set of 144
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-*United States, General Land Office. ''Federal land records, tract books of Illinois, 1826-1873.'' Springfield, Illinois&nbsp;: Filmed by Office of the Secretary of State, Record Management Division, 1966. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=257701&disp=Federal++land++records%2C++tract++books+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL US/CAN Film 899766-784.]
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-*Illinois State Archives databases. To search by name of purchaser or legal description see the [http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/data_lan.html Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales.]
 ==== '''Bureau of Land Management'''  ====