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''[[United States|United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[United States Land and Property|U.S. Land and Property]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[South Dakota]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[South Dakota_Land_and_Property|Land and Property]]''  
''[[United States|United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[United States Land and Property|U.S. Land and Property]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[South Dakota]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[South Dakota Land and Property|Land and Property]]''  


== '''Federal Land Records'''  ==
== '''Federal Land Records'''  ==
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'''The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)'''<br>P.O. Box 36800<br>222 North 32nd Street<br>Billings, MT 59101<br>Telephone: 406-255-2940<br>Fax: 406-255-2894<br>Internet: '''http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/'''  
'''The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)'''<br>P.O. Box 36800<br>222 North 32nd Street<br>Billings, MT 59101<br>Telephone: 406-255-2940<br>Fax: 406-255-2894<br>Internet: '''http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/'''  


The National Archives has the original homestead entry files, cash entry files, tract books, and township plats. Patent records since the 1960s of the BLM districts are also at the National Archives—Rocky Mountain Region at Denver.  
The [[National_Archives_and_Records_Administration|National Archives]] has the original homestead entry files, cash entry files, tract books, and township plats. Patent records since the 1960s of the BLM districts are also at the [[National_Archives_Rocky_Mountain_Region_(Denver)|National Archives Rocky Mountain Region&nbsp;(Denver)]].  


== '''County records'''  ==
== '''County records'''  ==


After land was transferred from the government to private owners, it could be sold again, inherited, lost by foreclosure of a mortgage, or redistributed through a divorce. These transactions have been recorded by the registrar of deeds in each county. The Family History Library does not have copies of the land records at the county courthouses in South Dakota.  
After land was transferred from the government to private owners, it could be sold again, inherited, lost by foreclosure of a mortgage, or redistributed through a divorce. These transactions have been recorded by the registrar of deeds in each county. The [[Family History Library|Family History Library]] does not have copies of the land records at the county courthouses in South Dakota.  


== '''Individual Land Transfers'''  ==
== '''Individual Land Transfers'''  ==
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=== '''South Dakota'''  ===
=== '''South Dakota'''  ===


The Family History Library has microfilm copies of most of the county records and is continuing to microfilm deeds of other counties up to about 1900. Contact the county clerk or recorder for records that have not been microfilmed.  
The [[Family History Library|Family History Library]] has microfilm copies of most of the county records and is continuing to microfilm deeds of other counties up to about 1900. Contact the county clerk or recorder for records that have not been microfilmed.  


Land records can be found in the Family History Library Catalog by using a '''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search]''' under: (*Most of the sources found under the state search for land and property are Bureau of Indian Affairs records.)  
Land records can be found in the Family History Library Catalog by using a '''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search]''' under: (*Most of the sources found under the state search for land and property are Bureau of Indian Affairs records.)  
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SOUTH DAKOTA, [COUNTY]- LAND AND PROPERTY  
SOUTH DAKOTA, [COUNTY]- LAND AND PROPERTY  
== References  ==
''[[South Dakota]] Research Outline].'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. (All of the information from the original research article has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated as time permits.)


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