Have to add my two-cents worth. The BLM site is a great site. There are some records that will not show up on that site at the present time. These are mostly early credit purchases before 1820 and military land warrant purchases. Volunteers at the Indiana State Archives are working on a first-of-a-kind project which is a cooperative database between the BLM and the ISA. We are adding Indiana information to the BLM data. When completed, the information will be shared between the two agencies. A prospective viewer will be able to see differences in data. The Indiana data will show date entered in Indiana, register of receipts number, military land warrant number, and residence of the purchaser. Often that is where the individual came from, a most helpful bit of data for geneologists. I work on this a couple of days a month and notice numerous significant differences..as simple as a different spelling(i.e., Taylor for Saylor). I have also added entries that were not found in the BLM records for no apparent reason, as they were not credit or military warrant purchases. I agree with the previous purchaser who noted inexpensive sale of public lands in Indiana abt 1820. Except for some parcels that had been bought previously, these were actual auctions. Quite a bit of land was not bought even then, because original land owners may be found in the registers into the early 1850's. I'm not sure how this enters in, but there were lots of land squabbles in KY over boundaries and ownership of parcels. Because IN was mostly measured off as a "metes and bounds" state, title difficulties would be minimal. Sharon Mills Sharon Mills At 04:00 PM 12/14/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >> George >> >> Not really sure why they moved from Ky to In however----- >> >> Clayton mythology says that one brother of three when he got to Indiana found >> plains of flowing grain/hay/grass up to his armpits and this was why the >> Claytons moved to Indiana. Why they went first unknown except free land. I >> found a book in the Ft Wayne Library that covered movement into Indiana and >> had the Claytons in it. I am looking for the pages I copied because there >> were other names in the article. When I find it and if there are any other >> reasons I will let you know. >> >> Brock >> >> ______________________________ >> > >I can't speak to your ancestors' motives for moving to Indiana in the >early 1800s - but it probably has a great deal to do with the federal >government selling off land in the territory very cheaply beginning in >1820. That's why my ancestors made the move to Indiana, anyway. > >If you want to find out whether your ancestors participated in the big >land selloff, check the BLM site at > >http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ > >Sarah > > >