Thanks for the info on railroad contacts. You can find a number of Crowleys in Wisconsin, including a Jeremiah, who had land contracts some as early 1831. You can search land patents at this site: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Just click on "Search Documents." Mike On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to know about these contracts, you can go to > _www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nedchs_ ( > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nedchs) and it will > explain railroad contracts in Nebraska. Four different Sullivan families > including my grandfather and g grandfather came here in 1877 from the > mines > in Michigan and bought RR land, > As it says on the web site, these contracts are on film at the Nebraska > State Historical Society here in Lincoln and there is a film index of > names. > A number of years ago, a friend recorded a number of Irish on the > contracts and I have that list. These contracts were from all over > Ireland. I > would assume that each state that the B and M RR go thru the state would > also > have these contracts. > > Teresa Sullivan > > > In a message dated 3/18/2013 6:02:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Where does one find these railroad contracts? > > Mike > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thee is a railroad contract for Jeremiah Crowley in Nebraska dated 1874 > > that shows he was from Cork City had been in the US for 21 years and in > > Nebraska for 4 years and had recently lived in Lindon Wisconsin. > > Teresa Sullivan > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Just a note: I just received at least 8 copies of Mike's email. Not sure what causes that but I know it has happened before. Marita Meyer On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Mike Saunders <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the info on railroad contacts. You can find a number of > Crowleys in Wisconsin, including a Jeremiah, who had land contracts some as > early 1831. You can search land patents at this site: > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ > > Just click on "Search Documents." > > Mike > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you want to know about these contracts, you can go to >> _www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nedchs_ ( >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nedchs) and it will >> explain railroad contracts in Nebraska. Four different Sullivan families >> including my grandfather and g grandfather came here in 1877 from the >> mines >> in Michigan and bought RR land, >> As it says on the web site, these contracts are on film at the Nebraska >> State Historical Society here in Lincoln and there is a film index of >> names. >> A number of years ago, a friend recorded a number of Irish on the >> contracts and I have that list. These contracts were from all over >> Ireland. I >> would assume that each state that the B and M RR go thru the state would >> also >> have these contracts. >> >> Teresa Sullivan >> >> >> In a message dated 3/18/2013 6:02:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> Where does one find these railroad contracts? >> >> Mike >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thee is a railroad contract for Jeremiah Crowley in Nebraska dated 1874 >>> that shows he was from Cork City had been in the US for 21 years and in >>> Nebraska for 4 years and had recently lived in Lindon Wisconsin. >>> Teresa Sullivan >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message