This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GKB.2ACE/1582.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Don't know if you have found this yet-go to http://www.glorecords.blm.gov Edward Turner Cash Sale 33.58 acres-Issue 4/20/1885 Homestead-153.34 acres issued 11/3/1876 in douglas County MO. It cost 17.00--I received the original Homestead papers for my GreatGrandfather George W. Fletcher of Ozarkand it had some good genealogy in it. And then went to visit the farm. You can order on line or mail. Site will tell you all the info you need. then call or visit a Land Office in Douglas County and they can give you directions/address for the Land!