This section provides information for researching properties owned by your ancestors.

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• Bureau of Land Management – General Land Office Records –  provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. We also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

• Land and Probate: Terms & Definitions is a downloadable PDF guide that defines many of the archaic terms used in land and probate research.

• Glossary of land-related terms at the GLO

• The Animated Map of the Growth of a Nation shows how the original thirteen colonies grew into the 50 United States we know today.

• Understanding Location Data

• Discover Land Patents with The Land Patents

• Section, Range and Township – Research in Public Land Records – Kimberly Powell