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-| bgcolor="#FAFAD2" |<center>'''Accessing land patents, grants, and surveys on the [[Library of Virginia]] website'''</center><br><br>''Land patents (pre-1779), land grants (after 1779), and Northern Neck grants (1692-1862) and surveys are available online. ''
+| bgcolor="#FAFAD2" |<center>'''Accessing land patents, grants, and surveys on the [[Library of Virginia]] website'''</center><br><br>''Images of Land patents (pre-1779), land grants (after 1779), and Northern Neck grants (1692-1862) and surveys are available. ''
-<br>'''Headrights'''
-Transported individuals were not indexed by the Library of Virginia in their database. In order to find your immigrant listed in these records, search for the name of the person who claimed land for their importation.
+'''Land Grant Recipients'''
-. If you do not know the claimant's name, check in published abstracts: [[Virginia_Land_and_Property#Abstracts|Nugent]].
+Search for the name of the person who received the land (the claimant) in the [https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants online search engine]. Patents and grants also may be searched by the name of the county (when listed), year, and acreage. In some cases, geographic place designations, such as waterways, are included in the catalog entry and may be searched.
+<br>'''Headrights'''
-. Search for the name of the person who received the land in the [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/8QAKSVPB7GDIIC2HBGTPS3TF425PR5KS5AH7KDA2EU5R52DMDI-69437?func=file&file_name=find-m-lva01 online search engine]. (Tip: Highlight "Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants" before you search).<br>3. When you find the correct record, the unindexed headrights will be visible on the scanned image of the document.
+Because the land patents list the names of imported persons, they are the primary source for documenting early Virginia immigration. Unfortunately transported individuals are not indexed in the database. In order to find an immigrant listed in these records, you must know the name of the person who claimed land for their importation. If you do not know the claimant's name, look in Nugent's published abstracts [[Virginia_Land_and_Property#Abstracts|(see Abstracts below)]].
-<br>'''Land Grant Recipients'''
+Then search for the name of the person who received the land in the [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/8QAKSVPB7GDIIC2HBGTPS3TF425PR5KS5AH7KDA2EU5R52DMDI-69437?func=file&file_name=find-m-lva01 online search engine]. When you find the correct record, the unindexed headright names should appear on the scanned image of the actual document.
-. Search for the name of the person who received the land in the [https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants online search engine]. (Tip: Highlight "Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants" before you search).
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