Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database

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Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database Birdie Monk Holsclaw, CG

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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database

Birdie Monk Holsclaw, CG

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www.glorecords.blm.gov

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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.

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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)

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(type a dash)

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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!

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State=Illinois

Warrantee =John Miller

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Patentee:Elizabeth Harbaugh

Warrantee:John Miller

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More options More help

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Right

mouse

click

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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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Shows meridian

s for selected

state

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Patentee =Hiram Dickson

State=Wisconsin

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Southeast quarter of the

northeast quarter of

Section 13 Township

5 North Range 11

East 4th Principal

Meridian

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Section 13 - Township 5N - Range 11E

State=Wisconsin

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11 parcels in Section 13: click

each name to

get precise location

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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

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Albert Reicheneck

erPharmacist

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

Como

South

Park

Map from Topozone.com

Reinecker Ridge

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Patentees =Reichenecker

State=Colorado

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11 records

All Park County

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Albert Reichen

ecker land

Reinecker

Ridge

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Issue date: The day the President (through

his representative) signed the patent … after all requirements

were met

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Land office: The local office where

patentees applied for their land. See Hone

book for maps.

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Document Nr.: The primary identification

for the patent.

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Authority: The law or treaty which enabled

the land to be distributed. See Gates

book.

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Patentee =Arthur Wilson

State=Colorado

County =Washington

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May 20, 1862: Homestead Entry

Original (12 Stat. 392)

12 Stat. 392 =

Page 392 in Volume 12 of U.S. Statutes

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Township 2 South Range 52 West

State=Colorado

Issue Year=1894

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Eight neighbors who got their land in 1894

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

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Sort by County

State=Colorado

Patentee=Richter

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Richters in

Colorado

Largest group in Morgan County

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Sort by Location

State=Colorado

Patentee=Reichenecker

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Reichenecker land

sorted by location

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Section 14

Section 14

Section 14

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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

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Rei%ecker:Rei neckerReich neckerReichenecker

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Ridg__y:Ridgley Ridgely

Ridgway

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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.

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

which countries are made.

– Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918