For those interested in land records in Iowa, please visit the University of Iowa website. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/swierenga.htm They hold land records from 1832 to 1900, including records received from Indian Tribes. These records fill a whopping 7,500 large volums, which alone is a complete library. Much of this has been transcribed to machine-readable format. How could we ever get around all of this? donkelly