This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gilmore, Wayne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XW.2ADI/728 Message Board Post: I'm trying to locate the plot of land on which my ancestors settled in 1853. I know it is along the Wagon Valley Creek a few miles west and south of Mount Shasta. The BLM has no records dating back this far. Does anyone know where there are earlier land records for Siskiyou County?