My friends - I am dropping by today to let you know that I have two additional text files ready for land grants in the JP. These cover some of the "L" surnames. The first file includes the following surnames: Langdon, Larkin, Larkins, and Lassiter/Lasseter. The second new file covers the following surnames: Lawton, Lamb, Lawson/Lauson, Latta, Lamm, Laffoon, Langston, Lawrence, Larrick, Larimer, Lander, Lashlie, Lattea, Lewis and Lee. These two additions are added to those currently available: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part) "G" Surnames(Part) - see original post for exact surnames "C" Surnames (Part), including Cochran, Cocke, Cook and Cooper "P" Surnames (part) "L" Surnames (part) - 2 files (shown above) If you need any of these text files, let me know and I will get it to you. It will be sent as a text file attachment, unless you specify that it should be sent as a straight e-mail message(which has a tendency to skew the columnar alignments). Please remember that you can take this land grant data and go to the JP Images web site and locate, in most cases, exactly where the individual resided, especially in Calloway, Marshall and Graves County. For the other counties, you will need to over the overall JP grid map, which is a much larger scale and not as easy to read and follow the grid lines, but still usable. In case you need it, the URL for the Images Page is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/temp/JPL.htm If you are new to land research and feel a little unsure about the rectangular survey system, you may wish to go over to my US Land & Property Research course, which is one of the free on-line educational courses offered at the International Internet Genealogical Society University. There is a full lesson on the rectangular survey system. It can be found here: http://users.arn.net/~billco/uslpr.htm -B ============================================================