The site to look up land records is: <A HREF="http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/">Click here: Home - BLM GLO Records</A> http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ I believe that it covers states from Ohio to Missouri. I have used it for Michigan, Indiana, and Missouri. The site is well organized. There are several ways to search. The land patents only apply to the sale from the Federal Government to the first owner. I used it to find ancestors' land, and then with the location I looked up their neighbors! You can print out an image of the original deed. I assume that the reason for the migration from KY to IN has to do with timing. People moved from the coastal states to KY, and the state that was ready for immigration for the next generation was IN. Certainly part of it is just knowing people who moved there. An obit in Jefferson County KS, in 1916, tells of a man from Germany who immigrated to WI. There he married a woman who had an acquaintance who had moved to KS, and so the newlyweds moved to KS. Also, our ancestors were amazingly mobile. They walked or rode hundreds of miles to visit family. Two of my ggg-grandfathers made the round trip between York PA and Clarence NY on foot twice in one year, over 600 miles each trip. Robert Leopard