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Subject: Re: [GER-TEX] New York to Texas
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:26:01 EDT
Hi Kittie,
I saw your message and thought I'd add my two cents worth. Because your
ancestor paid taxes on 160 acres plot, it may be that he bought the land from
the US government through the Land Patent process. You can get the files of
his purchases from the Bureau of Land Management. They have a website, which
another list member may have handy; I don't because my files are in another
city at the moment. Anyway, first you contact the BLM from the state of
Texas in order to search their index of Land Patents granted, by the name of
the purchaser. This document is free and then you send copies of it to the
National Archives to request the actual file on the purchase. You can glean
a variety of info from this file re: your ancestor. The files cost $10, if
they find them, nothing if they don't find them.
If you want, you can e-mail me privately and I can look up the contact info
when I'm back at my genealogy files, next week.
Good luck,
Liz
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