Illinois Land and Property: Difference between revisions

==== '''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.  All volumes are available at the Illinois State Archives and accessible by name of purchaser or legal description through their website 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}}