In a message dated 04/06/2000 4:52:21 PM Central Daylight Time, vashti@theshop.net writes: << http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=298021847 >> question - I have my grandmother's Indian land allotment but they look different than the one on e-bay. Were the papers different even tho hers were Choctaw also? Carol

At 08:40 PM 4/6/00 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 04/06/2000 4:52:21 PM Central Daylight Time, >vashti@theshop.net writes: > ><< http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=298021847 > >> >question - I have my grandmother's Indian land allotment but they look >different than the one on e-bay. Were the papers different even tho hers >were Choctaw also? A patent is the original. An abstract is everyone who owned the land after the original patent. Basically, a history of the land after the patent. A patent or warranty deed is the original deed to the land from the Government. Nalora