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The BLM-GLO [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ Land Patent Search] index '''only''' lists people who were actually granted a federal land patent. All military bounty land, grants, cash, pre-emption, and credit entry patents should be indexed. Among homesteaders only about 40 percent of initial applicants finished the process and received a legal title (patent) to their homestead. Among timberland applicants only about 25 percent received their patent. | The BLM-GLO [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ Land Patent Search] index '''only''' lists people who were actually granted a federal land patent. All military bounty land, grants, cash, pre-emption, and credit entry patents should be indexed. Among homesteaders only about 40 percent of initial applicants finished the process and received a legal title (patent) to their homestead. Among timberland applicants only about 25 percent received their patent. | ||
Homesteaders who never obtained a patent because they did not finish are NOT in the Land Patent Search, but they ARE in the application papers. It is possible to get copies of unfinished applications. However, to see such application papers you must figure out another way to [[United States Land and Property#Obtaining a Legal Description of the Land|obtain the legal description of the land]] they started to homestead. <!--{ | Homesteaders who never obtained a patent because they did not finish are NOT in the Land Patent Search, but they ARE in the application papers. It is possible to get copies of unfinished applications. However, to see such application papers you must figure out another way to [[United States Land and Property#Obtaining a Legal Description of the Land|obtain the legal description of the land]] they [[United_States_Land_and_Property#Types of Grants|started]] to homestead. <!--{12055224368280} --> <!--{12055224368281} --> <!--{12055224368282} --> <!--{12055224368283} --> <!--{12055224368284} --> <!--{12055224368285} --> | ||
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= Using the Land Patent Search = | = Using the Land Patent Search = | ||