Lesson IX
State and Federal Land Records

Finding Aids: State-Land States

• Connecticut State Library. Finding Aid to Connecticut Land Records
• Georgia Department of Archives and History. GDAH Land Records
• The Official Ohio Lands Book and Along the Ohio Trail
• Texas General Land Office. Archives and Records.
• Library of Virginia. Land Office Patents and Grants

Finding Aids: Public-Land States - Federal Repositories

• U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site
  Site with a database of federal land patents for the Eastern public-land states issued between 1820 and 1908 and digital images of the patents. From these records you can obtain the certificate number or document number required to order a land entry file from the National Archives.
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management. California State Office. California Land Patent Records
  See Appendix L: Western States Offices, BLM for the web sites of the Western State Offices of the Bureau of Land Management.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Genealogical and Biographical Research
  Online version of the National Archives microfilm catalog,  Part I of which lists federal land records on microfilm as of 1983.
• Each of these National Archives regional research facilities has some federal land grant records:
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Southeast Region (Atlanta)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Great Lakes Region (Chicago)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Central Plains Region (Kansas City)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Southwest Region (Fort Worth)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel)
  • U.S. National Archives--Pacific Region (San Francisco)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage)

Finding Aids: Public-Land States - State Repositories

• Indiana State Archives. Archives Land Records Index
• Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library. About Land Entry Records in Ohio for Family Historians

Digital Images

• 1749 Pennsylvania Land Warrant
• 1767 Pennsylvania Survey
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Ingalls Homestead File
  Click on a thumbnail page to obtain a full-sized image.