> Want something "really cool?" > > Pennsylvania offers a wonderful site that provides .. > Records of the Land Office > WARRANT REGISTERS, 1733-1957. {series #17.88} > *Images of Each Index Page for Each County* > > Below are links to the scanned Warrant Register pages for each county. > These > Warrant Registers serve as the basic index to the original land warrants, > surveys and patents for about 70% of the land in the Commonwealth of > Pennsylvania for the dates 1733-ca.1957. (For the pre-1733 period, consult > the Old Rights Registers {series #17.78 and 17.19} and the Proprietary > Rights Index {series #17.110}. For late-twentieth-century warrants and > patents, contact the Pennsylvania State Archives at: (717) 783-2669 or > (717) > 783-3281.) > > The scanned Warrant Registers for 1733-1957 {series #17.88} are arranged > alphabetically by the surname of the person who got the warrant > (warrantee). > More specifically, entries are grouped by the first letter of a person's > surname, and thereunder arranged in rough chronological order by warrant > date. Although the Warrant Registers also provide the name of the person > who > received the patent (patentee), they do not include an index by this name. > You must use the Patent Indexes {series #17.147, 17.154 and 17.155} to > look > up properties by patentee name if that is all you know. > > www.phmc.state.pa > us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/r17-88AllCountiesInterface.htm > > Short Version: http://tinyurl.com/yzs53y > >