I will say that I have NOT visited. but if it was as it was in the past You should be able to GET an image of the cert of your ancestor... (the searching tool is only a small part of what is available to you...) and even if you think that your people did not get lands, it may have been that they did but just could not KEEP it.... so, make the attempt to see if there were BLM lands with your family names and consider those areas as possible paths of immigration.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Neill<mailto:mjnrootdig@gmail.com> To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:01 AM Subject: [GN] BLM GLO site working The Bureau of Land Management site is now working . http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/<http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/> We've put an article about searching the site on our site: http://www.rootdig.com/adn/getwild.html<http://www.rootdig.com/adn/getwild.html> There is other information about land records, etc. here as well: http://www.rootdig.com/deed/<http://www.rootdig.com/deed/> And if you don't know what land patents are, or have questions, I'm certain someone on the list could either answer them or point you in the right direction. Michael -- Michael John Neill --------------------------------------------------- Genealogy Research Trip to Salt Lake http://www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html<http://www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html> ==== GEN-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== If you'd like to search our archives, please visit http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GEN-NEWBIE<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GEN-NEWBIE> Gen-Newbie URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie<http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie>