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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
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