Did your people come to the U.S. looking for land?  Did they buy it from the U.S. government?  If so, David will share tips on US land transfers: 

• Finding legal discretion (Township-Range-Section number) given a current address or location.

• Doing land patent lookups on the BLM GLO website

• Cash sales – Military bounty lands – Homestead lands

• Finding related records:  Application file, Land office transfer document, Homestead proof file)

Speaker:  David Bartholmy