getting the most from the online blm database
DESCRIPTION
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 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database
Birdie Monk Holsclaw, CG
![Page 2: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
www.glorecords.blm.gov
![Page 3: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
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.
![Page 4: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
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)
![Page 5: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
![Page 6: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
(type a dash)
![Page 9: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
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!
![Page 11: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
State=Illinois
Warrantee =John Miller
![Page 12: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Patentee:Elizabeth Harbaugh
Warrantee:John Miller
![Page 14: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
More options More help
![Page 15: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Right
mouse
click
![Page 17: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Elizabeth Harbaugh, mother and the other heirs at law of Jno Miller decd, late a private in Kean’s Coy fourth Regiment of Riflemen …
![Page 18: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Shows meridian
s for selected
state
![Page 19: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
![Page 20: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Patentee =Hiram Dickson
State=Wisconsin
![Page 21: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
![Page 22: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
![Page 23: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter of
Section 13 Township
5 North Range 11
East 4th Principal
Meridian
![Page 24: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Section 13 - Township 5N - Range 11E
State=Wisconsin
![Page 25: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
11 parcels in Section 13: click
each name to
get precise location
![Page 26: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
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
![Page 27: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Albert Reicheneck
erPharmacist
Lived Como, Colo. in the 1870s-1890s
Como
South
Park
Map from Topozone.com
Reinecker Ridge
![Page 28: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Patentees =Reichenecker
State=Colorado
![Page 29: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
11 records
All Park County
![Page 30: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Albert Reichen
ecker land
Reinecker
Ridge
![Page 31: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Issue date: The day the President (through
his representative) signed the patent … after all requirements
were met
![Page 32: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Land office: The local office where
patentees applied for their land. See Hone
book for maps.
![Page 33: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Document Nr.: The primary identification
for the patent.
![Page 34: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Authority: The law or treaty which enabled
the land to be distributed. See Gates
book.
![Page 35: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Patentee =Arthur Wilson
State=Colorado
County =Washington
![Page 36: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
![Page 37: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
May 20, 1862: Homestead Entry
Original (12 Stat. 392)
12 Stat. 392 =
Page 392 in Volume 12 of U.S. Statutes
![Page 38: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Township 2 South Range 52 West
State=Colorado
Issue Year=1894
![Page 39: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Eight neighbors who got their land in 1894
- Almost all (7) under 1862 Homestead Act - One familiar name (Hansen)
![Page 40: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
![Page 41: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
![Page 42: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Sort by County
State=Colorado
Patentee=Richter
![Page 43: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Richters in
Colorado
Largest group in Morgan County
![Page 44: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Sort by Location
State=Colorado
Patentee=Reichenecker
![Page 45: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Reichenecker land
sorted by location
![Page 46: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Section 14
Section 14
Section 14
![Page 47: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
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
![Page 48: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Rei%ecker:Rei neckerReich neckerReichenecker
![Page 49: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Ridg__y:Ridgley Ridgely
Ridgway
![Page 50: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
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.
![Page 51: Getting the Most From the Online BLM Database](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022070418/568159aa550346895dc70d1b/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of
which countries are made.
– Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918