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Land patents from 1788 to the 1960s show information about people who obtained the title to their land directly from the government (rather than from another individual). This includes land obtained through military bounty land warrants, land grants, cash entry sales, credit entries, homesteads, mineral or mining, and timberland claims. | Land patents from 1788 to the 1960s show information about people who obtained the title to their land directly from the government (rather than from another individual). This includes land obtained through military bounty land warrants, land grants, cash entry sales, credit entries, homesteads, mineral or mining, and timberland claims. | ||
An [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ | An [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0 index (Land Patent Search)] to several million '''federal land''' patent records is available online at the Bureau of Land Management – General Land Office Records (BLM-GLO) site at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ | ||
== Value of Land Records == | == Value of Land Records == | ||
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== Value of the BLM-GLO Land Patent Search == | == Value of the BLM-GLO Land Patent Search == | ||
The [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ | The [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0 Land Patent Search] 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. | ||
== Jurisdictions == | == Jurisdictions == | ||
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== Who Is in the Land Patent Search == | == Who Is in the Land Patent Search == | ||
The BLM-GLO [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ | The BLM-GLO [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0 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 [[Grants from the Federal Government (Public Domain)#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 [[Grants from the Federal Government (Public Domain)#Legal_Description_of_the_Land|obtain the legal description of the land]] they started to homestead. | ||
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Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Home Page] | Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Home Page] | ||
Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ | Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0 Land Patent Search] | ||
[http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/LandGrantsSearch.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search] | [http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/LandGrantsSearch.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search] | ||
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