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*Indexes for the same states along with Missouri are available on the Internet. For an information packet, telephone the Bureau of Land Management at 703-440-1564.
*Indexes for the same states along with Missouri are available on the Internet. For an information packet, telephone the Bureau of Land Management at 703-440-1564.


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*[[Tract books]] history, preparing to use them, how to use them, content, access, and associated case files.
*[[United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books (FamilySearch Historical Records)|United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books (FamilySearch Historical Records)]] describes the online federal tract book collection for 28 federal land states from 1820-1908.
*[[Grants from the Federal Government (Public Domain)]] explains public lands, how individuals claimed some of it, and the paperwork created during the process.
*BLM [[Land Patent Search]] discusses the index to eight million patented (finished) land applications, and military bounty land papers. Each entry in this index includes the land description useful for finding an ancestor in a tract book.
*[[Land entry case files]] describes the 10 million files in the National Archives created to document individual claims to federal land using cash entry, credit entry, homestead, military bounty land, private land claims, mineral or timberland rights. A case file exists for each tract book entry.
*[[Rectangular surveys]] includes a section about [[Rectangular surveys#Tract_books|tract books]]. This article shows how principal meridians, baselines, townships, ranges, sections, and aliquots are used for land descriptions found in tract books and other property records.
*[[United States Land and Property]] page is a general discussion of land record research for genealogists. It serves as a table of contents to related Wiki pages about American land records including tract books, related land entry case files, and the BLM land patent search.
*[http://www.glo.texas.gov/cf/land-grant-search/index.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search] of over 665,000 land entries in Texas. Also includes grants from Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas.


Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Home Page]
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Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0 Land Patent Search]  
*[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records] includes the Land Patent Search, instructions, and search tips.
*[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Home Page Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records]
*[http://www.archives.gov/forms/pdf/natf-84.pdf Form NATF-084] (pdf) used to order land entry case files from the National Archives.
*[http://www.archives.gov/research/land/ Land Records: Introduction and Links to Resources on Land Entry Case Files and Related Records] National Archives explain land record research.
*[http://www.glo.texas.gov/cf/land-grant-search/index.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search] of over 665,000 land entries in Texas. Also includes grants from Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas.


[http://www.glo.texas.gov/cf/land-grant-search/index.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search]
*Constance Potter “[http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-2.html Genealogy Notes: De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives, Part 2]” Prologue (Winter 2003), 35:4 at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-2.html  
 
*[http://www.geocommunicator.gov/geocomm/sitemap.htm GeoCommunicator] provides, searching, accessing and dynamic mapping of some BLM activities, such as the Public Land Survey System (PLSS).  
Constance Potter “[http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-2.html Genealogy Notes: De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives, Part 2]” Prologue (Winter 2003), 35:4 at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-2.html  
*The [http://www.arphax.com/ ''Family Maps'' series of Land Patent Books and ''Texas Land Survey Maps''] series. County maps "for original settlers whose purchases are indexed either in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management database of the Texas General land Office database." (Arphax Publishing)  
 
[http://www.geocommunicator.gov/geocomm/sitemap.htm GeoCommunicator] provides, searching, accessing and dynamic mapping of some BLM activities, such as the Public Land Survey System (PLSS).  
 
The [http://www.arphax.com/ ''Family Maps'' series of Land Patent Books and ''Texas Land Survey Maps''] series. County maps "for original settlers whose purchases are indexed either in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management database of the Texas General land Office database." (Arphax Publishing)  


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