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
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 …
Shows meridian
s for selected
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)
Sort by County
State=Colorado
Patentee=Richter
Richters in
Colorado
Largest group in Morgan County
Sort by Location
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
