State Archives may have that info, never thought of that... check their site and ask them. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/Default.asp Jackie Jtrippneu@aol.com wrote: >Prior to 1821 when MO became a state it was part of the Louisiana Purchase. >In order to find original land records, one would probably have to gain >access to the original plat maps for the area. Permanent boundaries for most of >our states were not established until the late 1800s, and cartographers were >still drawing maps and exploring regions in the Midwest prior to the Civil War >and beyond when railroads came into vogue. Much of the early historic >material for the Midwest is maintained in large university collections, but for >information on the Louisiana Purchase lands, I believe the French records are >located in New Orleans. > >Judy Neu >Springwater, NY > > >==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== >To Subscribe to MoRipley GenWeb >mailto:MORIPLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe&body=subscribe >mailto:MORIPLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe&body=subscribe > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > > > -- *"A people without a history is like wind on the buffalo grass" * *Crazy Horse - Oglala Sioux * *County Coordinator Ripley Co MO GenWeb* <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Emoripley/> *Moderator HarringtonGen* <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harringtongen/> *Owner/Breeder Tanimara Great Pyrenees - Livestock Guardians* <http://www.geocities.com/tanimara_2000/>