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Unclaimed land became public domain and was surveyed and sold to private owners. | Unclaimed land became public domain and was surveyed and sold to private owners. | ||
The Bureau of Land Management has an online | The Bureau of Land Management has an online [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ index] to land patents in Louisiana. The patent search usually provides a digital image of the original patent. | ||
The Bureau of Land Management has | The Bureau of Land Management has an [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/ index] and digital images of the original survey maps for Louisiana. The original survey creates land boundaries and marks them for the first time. | ||
The Family History Library and the Division of Archives, Records Management, and History have microfilms of the nineteenth-century claims and original land sales recorded by the United States District Land Offices, such as those in Ouachita, Opelousas, St. Helena, and New Orleans. The original records are in: | The Family History Library and the Division of Archives, Records Management, and History have microfilms of the nineteenth-century claims and original land sales recorded by the United States District Land Offices, such as those in Ouachita, Opelousas, St. Helena, and New Orleans. The original records are in: | ||