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Tract books may also serve as indexes to the case files. They are arranged geographically by township and range, so you have to have some idea of the legal description of the land where your ancestor lived to be able to use them. Some legal land descriptions are included in county records. | Tract books may also serve as indexes to the case files. They are arranged geographically by township and range, so you have to have some idea of the legal description of the land where your ancestor lived to be able to use them. Some legal land descriptions are included in county records. | ||
*The [http://www.mnhs.org/collections/digitalmaps/index.htm Minnesota Historical Society ] has some county maps, land atlases, and plat books | |||
*United States. Bureau of Land Management. ''Tract Books''. Washington DC: Records Improvement, Bureau of Land Management, 1957. (The Family History Library films for Minnesota are [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=607931&disp=Tract+books++ 1445629–76].) Use the Author/Title Search of the microfiche catalog to find film numbers. The tract books devote a page or so to each land section in a township. They list the name of the first owner of each quarter section or the certificate number or both. | *United States. Bureau of Land Management. ''Tract Books''. Washington DC: Records Improvement, Bureau of Land Management, 1957. (The Family History Library films for Minnesota are [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=607931&disp=Tract+books++ 1445629–76].) Use the Author/Title Search of the microfiche catalog to find film numbers. The tract books devote a page or so to each land section in a township. They list the name of the first owner of each quarter section or the certificate number or both. | ||
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* Minnesota Historical Society Research Center<br>345 Kellogg Boulevard W.<br>St Paul, MN 55102-1906<br>Telephone: 651-296-2143<br>Fax: 651-297-7436 <br>Internet: [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/mho/regcent.html www.mnhs.org/preserve/mho/regcent.html]<br>Holds microfilm copies of tract books and township plats. | *Minnesota Historical Society Research Center<br>345 Kellogg Boulevard W.<br>St Paul, MN 55102-1906<br>Telephone: 651-296-2143<br>Fax: 651-297-7436 <br>Internet: [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/mho/regcent.html www.mnhs.org/preserve/mho/regcent.html]<br>Holds microfilm copies of tract books and township plats. | ||
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