LAND RECORDS
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On this page: Help Using Land Records - Homestead Records - Land Bounty Grants - Land Record Databases Online
Note: To see if deeds have been filmed and are available to borrow at your local Family History Library Check the FHL Catalog using a Place Search - enter county and state and when a list is retrieved choose LAND & PROPERTY. In New England you may also wish to do a town search.
To find the creek, mountain, stream etc. named in land records search GNIS
Help Using Land Records
- Analyzing
Deeds for Useful Clues
-
Linda
Haas Davenport's Learning Center
has some very good help with land records
- Graphical
Display of the Federal Township and Range System
- Land Research
Resource Directory
-
Land
Survey Systems (it is about Michigan but the information
is good for township range land systems)
- Land
Survey Information System (will do interactive mapping showing
townships and range etc.)
- Legal
Land Descriptions in Metes and Bounds (those deeds that descirbe
land "from the red oak sw...to the big rock in the road on the way
to Bardstown" etc.
-
Legal Terms in
Land Records (dictionary)
-
National
Archives : Land Records
- Surveying
Units and Terms
- Using
Deed Records
- Where
to Obtain Land Patents/ Warrants
Public Lands & Homestead Records
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BLM
GLO Federal Lands Database
Homestead Act of 1862
-
Homestead
Application (NARA) [ how to get copies of original homestead
grants]
Land Bounty Grants
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Land Record Databases Online
- Also check under specific state records
- BLM Federal Land
Patent Search (AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, FL, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OH, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY)
- U.S. Genweb Digital Archives
Search Choose the state and
try a variety of terms such as:
"Logan and Deed"
"Logan and Land"
"Logan and Shelby" (being your surname and county name)
- Always check your GenWeb
County Page to see if anyone has contributed deeds or a deed index to
their resources
- Don't neglect to try a Google search
with a variety of search terms.