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| ==== '''Bureau of Land Management''' ==== | | ==== '''Bureau of Land Management''' ==== |
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| The Bureau of Land Management holds sources documenting the original transfer of land from the federal government to individuals, such as original patents, copies of tract books, and township plats. | | The Bureau of Land Management and General Land Office (BLM-GLO) has an on line [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch Land Patent Search] which is an index to millions of ancestors in federal land patents from 1788 to the 1960s at the National Archives. Start with this index to get the information needed to obtain the applications for land patents which may be a rich source of genealogical information about a family. The same Internet site also provides access to images of patents for the eastern federal land states. |
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| The BLM Eastern States Office has an ongoing project of preparing indexes and images of the documents in their possession for convenient access through the Internet or compact disc. Records of some states are now available, and Illinois is in process. When this index is available, it is advisable to use both the BLM index and the Public Domain Sales (Index) described above, since the indexes were created from different sets of documents.
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| :*Eastern States Office<br>7450 Boston Boulevard<br>Springfield, VA 22153<br>Telephone: 703-440-1600<br>Fax: 703-440-1609<br>Internet: [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/]
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| :*If an ancestor who did receive public lands is not listed in the Public Domain Sales (Index), use the following until the BLM index is available for Illinois:
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| ::United States. Bureau of Land Management. ''Card Files''. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Land Management, 19–?. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=511740&disp=Card+files%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1501522–681]). Films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=511740&disp=Card+files%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1501600–605] and [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=511740&disp=Card+files%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1501609–663] pertain to Illinois. Because these index cards are arranged by township and range, an approximate legal description is needed to access them. The cards give the land office name and certificate number needed to locate the land-entry case files.
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| ::The land-entry case files consist of the papers created during the process of transferring public lands to individuals. They are often rich in genealogical information and may include depositions, receipts, affidavits, proof of citizenship (by birth or naturalization), evidence of military service, and more. Files are available from the National Archives (Pennsylvania Avenue at 8th Street, Washington, DC 20408, Telephone 202-501-5415). Because of the way the files are arranged, the name of the land office and the case file number are required, and a completed NATF form 84 must accompany requests for the case files.
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| :*United States. Bureau of Land Management. Tract Books. Washington, D.C.: Records Improvement, Bureau of Land Management, 1957. (On 1,265 Family History Library films starting with {{FHL|1445277}}.) These land tract record books include all public land states and serve as a reference source for transactions involving public lands.
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