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For land in Pennsylvania, check out [https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Land-Records-Overview.aspx Land Records at the Pennsylvania State Archives] | For land in Pennsylvania, check out [https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Land-Records-Overview.aspx Land Records at the Pennsylvania State Archives] | ||
== Who | == Who is in the Land Patent Search == | ||
The BLM-GLO 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 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 [[Grants from the Federal Government (Public Domain)#Legal_Description_of_the_Land|another way to 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 [[Grants from the Federal Government (Public Domain)#Legal_Description_of_the_Land|another way to obtain the legal description of the land]] they started to homestead. | ||
== Using the Land Patent Search == | == Using the Land Patent Search == | ||
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