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These land records represent
the transfer of public lands to private ownership. In most cases they represent
purchase of the land by individuals from the United States Government.
Others are the result of homesteading, Indian cessions or treaties, or
bounty lands given to military veterans.
This database of more than
225,000 records can be browsed and is based on the original raw database
of the General Land Office, a precursor to the Bureau of Land Management.
The BLM is in the process
of scanning and putting on- line all of these records for you to see and
print out for your own use.
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov
The database this introduction
is appended to may contain errors the BLM has corrected as they double
checked every record while scanning the documents. Once you have found
an entry of interest in this database, be sure to double check it against
the BLM web site.
The county designation in
this database represents what county the land is in today, not what county
it was at the time the individual took possession of the land, as county
boundaries have changed many times over the years.
You can view current county
maps at the Mississippi Department of Transportation web site: http://www.gomdot.com/maps/county_maps.asp
These maps show the Township,
Range and Section numbers of each parcel of land in the county.
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