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From: "H. Jean Dalrymple" <>
Subject: FW: [RAMEY-L] Land records
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:27:22 -0700


>I have come a cross a great website with Homestead and Government Cash
>Entry sales of land.
>
>The Bureau of Land Management has a website at:
>http://www.glorecords.blm.gov
>
>It has land records that were sold by the government and you can print out
>or view land patents. These were granted per the 1820 land grant Act and
>the 1863 Homestead Act. They have records for the Eastern Public Domain
>States. They include: Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
>Missouri, Ohio and a few other states. They are suppose to be adding more
>states soon. Check it out. You may have to download a TIFF program but,
>it is free if you choose the right one. Read the listings.
>I went to the National Archives in DC this week and viewed the actual files
>for my ancestors and others I am doing research for. It was a great and
>awesome feeling to handle the records that they had signed. There is some
>genealogy info on many of the records. You can also obtain the files by
>getting a form 84 and mailing it in to the National Archives. The cost is
>$10.00 per file. You can also request the patents from the Bureau of Land
>Management from the website but, I think you only get the patent, not the
file.
>
>

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