Hi Mary, You can actually look up the land grants on the blm website: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ Type in your last name. For example, if you put Swinford into the search box you will get the following: View Image Patentee Name State County Issue Date Land Office Doc. Nr. Accession/Serial Nr. SWINFORD, GEORGE W IN Miami 4/10/1849 Winamac 18035 IN1940__.231 SWINFORD, JOHN IN Putnam 3/30/1837 Crawfordsville 26506 IN1400__.183 SWINFORD, JOHN IN Putnam 5/15/1837 Crawfordsville 27932 IN3180__.083 SWINFORD, SAMUEL IN Vigo 8/1/1837 Vincennes 10765 IN2040__.189 SWINFORD, WILLIAM IN Putnam 3/20/1837 Crawfordsville 24307 IN1360__.008 SWINFORD, WILLIAM IN Putnam 4/5/1837 Crawfordsville 27786 IN3170__.442 SWINFORD, WILLIAM IN Vigo 10/23/1835 Vincennes 5614 IN0120__.071 SWINFORD, WILSON F IN Miami 4/10/1849 Winamac 18034 IN1940__.230 SWINFORD, WILSON F IN Miami 1/5/1850 Winamac 18929 IN1960__.112 What the author of this book has done is created maps of where all this land was located and who owned what. For example, if you are looking for John Swinford in Putnam Co., he was granted 40 acres at this location: The North East corner of the south east corner of Section 11, township 14n, range 5W in the 2nd perimter in Putnam Co., IN. This website will also show you how to look it up on a section, township, range map. I did this for all my ancestors to find out who all his neighbors were. Ginger
I tried searching for my Gordon's land grants on the BLM website, but nothing came up for Putnam Co., which is where I thought they settled. Am I doing something wrong? Judy Gordon
Judy I found Gordon's and have copied them for you. I believe some of them were spelled en. The legal description (latitude/longitude) is included in what I am hopefully getting out in the mail to everyone tomorrow. Jan who is just in from a day of xeroxing at the library in OK Judy Gordon wrote: > I tried searching for my Gordon's land grants on the BLM website, but > nothing came up for Putnam Co., which is where I thought they settled. Am I > doing something wrong? > Judy Gordon > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >