Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database

Birdie Monk Holsclaw, CG

www.glorecords.blm.gov

Disposition of Public Lands

From the U.S. government General Land Office (GLO), 1812-1946 Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 1946-

To individuals, governments, companies States, railroads, etc. Cash sales Warrants Homestead Act, etc.

Map from <www.glorecords.blm.gov/Visitors/StateTime.asp>

Gray states are in the jurisdiction of BLM’s Eastern States Office;

complete to 1908 (except Iowa)

(type a dash)

Warrantee & Patentee

Warrantee: a person who received a warrant for land (usually military).

Patentee: a person who received a land patent. (The Last Name field may also be a maiden name, alias, company name or state.)

Warrantee and Patentee may or may not be the same!

State=Illinois

Warrantee =John Miller

Patentee:Elizabeth Harbaugh

Warrantee:John Miller

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Elizabeth Harbaugh, mother and the other heirs at law of Jno Miller decd, late a private in Kean’s Coy fourth Regiment of Riflemen …

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state

Patentee =Hiram Dickson

State=Wisconsin

Southeast quarter of the

northeast quarter of

Section 13 Township

5 North Range 11

East 4th Principal

Meridian

Section 13 - Township 5N - Range 11E

State=Wisconsin

11 parcels in Section 13: click

each name to

get precise location

Hiram Dickson’s section

William H.

Bailey

John McCulkin

John Menzie

John Fish

John FishOrrin C.

Stearns

Hiram Dickson

Otis Bathrick

Lance Estes

George Barnes

John J. Estes

Albert Reicheneck

erPharmacist

Lived Como, Colo. in the 1870s-1890s

Como

South

Park

Map from Topozone.com

Reinecker Ridge

Patentees =Reichenecker

State=Colorado

11 records

All Park County

Albert Reichen

ecker land

Reinecker

Ridge

Issue date: The day the President (through

his representative) signed the patent … after all requirements

were met

Land office: The local office where

patentees applied for their land. See Hone

book for maps.

Document Nr.: The primary identification

for the patent.

Authority: The law or treaty which enabled

the land to be distributed. See Gates

book.

Patentee =Arthur Wilson

State=Colorado

County =Washington

May 20, 1862: Homestead Entry

Original (12 Stat. 392)

12 Stat. 392 =

Page 392 in Volume 12 of U.S. Statutes

Township 2 South Range 52 West

State=Colorado

Issue Year=1894

Eight neighbors who got their land in 1894

- Almost all (7) under 1862 Homestead Act - One familiar name (Hansen)

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State=Colorado

Patentee=Richter

Richters in

Colorado

Largest group in Morgan County

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State=Colorado

Patentee=Reichenecker

Reichenecker land

sorted by location

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Wildcards

% (percent sign) = zero-plus characters Fran% = Fran, Frank, Francisco Rei%ecker = Reinecker, Reichenecker

_ (underscore) = one and only one character Hans_n = Hansen, Hanson Ridg__y = Ridgely, Ridgley

Rei%ecker:Rei neckerReich neckerReichenecker

Ridg__y:Ridgley Ridgely

Ridgway

Associated records

Maps Survey notes and tract books A must: see the case file (visit the National

Archives I in D.C., or order photocopies)

Enjoy learning more about this part of your

ancestors’ history.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of

which countries are made.

– Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918