Moderator, Reviewer, editor, pagecreator, pagedeleter
42,729
edits
Indiana Land and Property: Difference between revisions
Changing links/explanations from FS Research Outlines to Wiki articles
(add nav bar) |
(Changing links/explanations from FS Research Outlines to Wiki articles) |
||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
United States. Congress. ''American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States''. 38 volumes. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Brookhaven Press, 1959. (On 29 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=309454&disp=American+state+papers++ 1631827]; classes 8 and 9 are also on films [[899878|899878–885]].) The volumes for classes 8 and 9 deal with public lands and claims for the years 1789 to 1837, and may name siblings or heirs of original claimants. Classes 8 and 9 have been republished in: United States. Congress. American State Papers, Class 8. | United States. Congress. ''American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States''. 38 volumes. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Brookhaven Press, 1959. (On 29 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=309454&disp=American+state+papers++ 1631827]; classes 8 and 9 are also on films [[899878|899878–885]].) The volumes for classes 8 and 9 deal with public lands and claims for the years 1789 to 1837, and may name siblings or heirs of original claimants. Classes 8 and 9 have been republished in: United States. Congress. American State Papers, Class 8. | ||
For a comprehensive name index, see: McMullin, Phillip W. ed. ''Grassroots of America''. Both are cited fully in | For a comprehensive name index, see: McMullin, Phillip W. ed. ''Grassroots of America''. Both are cited fully in [[United States Land and Property]]. | ||
=== Other sources listing early land records are: === | === Other sources listing early land records are: === | ||
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
The Family History Library has microfilms of tract books dating from the early 1800s for many land offices in Indiana. | The Family History Library has microfilms of tract books dating from the early 1800s for many land offices in Indiana. | ||
United States. Bureau of Land Management. ''Tract Books''. See | United States. Bureau of Land Management. ''Tract Books''. See [[United States Land and Property]] for a full citation. | ||
The Bureau of Land Management has an ongoing project of producing compact disc indexes of their records. Some states’ land records are now available on CD, and the Bureau of Land Management is working on Indiana. The Indiana records for patents and legal land descriptions are available on the General Land Office web page, [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ www.glorecords.blm.gov]. They are indexed. | The Bureau of Land Management has an ongoing project of producing compact disc indexes of their records. Some states’ land records are now available on CD, and the Bureau of Land Management is working on Indiana. The Indiana records for patents and legal land descriptions are available on the General Land Office web page, [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ www.glorecords.blm.gov]. They are indexed. | ||
| Line 43: | Line 43: | ||
A bibliography of books about land records in Indiana is found in: | A bibliography of books about land records in Indiana is found in: | ||
Miller, Carolynne L. ''Indiana Sources for Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Library''. See | Miller, Carolynne L. ''Indiana Sources for Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Library''. See [[Indiana Archives and Libraries]] for a full citation. | ||
Helpful maps that show the territories, territorial counties, early counties, land offices, forts, rivers, railroads, canals, and roads are found on pages 1 to 21 of Malinda E. E. Newhard’s book A Guide to Genealogical Records in Indiana, Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=143462&disp=A+guide+to+genealogical+records+in+India%20%20&columns=*,0,0 977.2 D27n]. | Helpful maps that show the territories, territorial counties, early counties, land offices, forts, rivers, railroads, canals, and roads are found on pages 1 to 21 of Malinda E. E. Newhard’s book A Guide to Genealogical Records in Indiana, Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=143462&disp=A+guide+to+genealogical+records+in+India%20%20&columns=*,0,0 977.2 D27n]. | ||
| Line 73: | Line 73: | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
''[ | ''[[Indiana]] Research Outline. ''Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. | ||
:NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated as time permits. | |||
{{Indiana|Indiana}} | |||
[[Category:Indiana|Land]] | [[Category:Indiana|Land]] | ||