The BLM site was working fine when I first used it but yesterday and early this morning when I tried I got the following message: "HTTP error 404 file not found" Has anyone else had that problem or is something wrong on my end? I thought at first it might be overloaded but it was still the same early this morning. Ardath Blue TH>More information on the land records site. Got from another list. TH>>The BLM site works very well. I suspect that it is a bit overloaded at the TH>>moment and you need to persist. It has a shortcut which speeds things when TH>>you have a long list of people with a surname from one state. TH>> TH>>You do a search by state (genealogical) and get a list of people. You then TH>>hit a person link to get the land patent report. After you download the TH>>document (.tif file), you hit the browser back arrow, then the refresh TH>>button and you get the list of people again. Then you can check the next TH>>person. Ad infinitum. TH>> TH>>I just printed a pile of retrieved records. You need to print the documents TH>>on 2 pages in landscape orientation for best readability. They are a bit TH>>small when printed on a single page. The original document size seems to TH>>have been something like 21x16 inches. TH>> TH>==== KENTUCKIANA Mailing List ==== TH>Don't forget to visit Kentuckiana Genealogy TH>http://www.aye.net/~dee1234/ TH>dee1234@aye.net