> In the BLM, Are all records in blm or just the records people searched > for?. > I have searched in ILL. for 2 surnames and none of these names show any > records. > > This was in 1805 way before the civil war. > This was in GA. I don't know what requiremants applied. > HOBSON ARNOLD along with other Arnolds were on that list. > I am trying to find any information about Hobson and His wife Avy/Avie NIX. > Paul, The land transactions at the BLM website are only for the original patentees of land in the federal land states, that is, states that were added in purchases subsequent to the original colonies. The federal government acquired the land, and the original patentees bought parcels of land directly from the federal government. If you had ancestors in Illinois, they may or may not have been the original patentees. If they were, they should have a transaction listed at the BLM site. If they bought their land in Illinois from someone else, then they would not be listed at that site, there would be a deed at the county courthouse of the county where they purchased the land. If you are talking about someone who was in Georgia in 1805...if the person was a Revolutionary soldier serving from the state of Georgia, he probably got bounty land through the state of Georgia. Those records would be at the Georgia state archives. He would have been eligible for Federal bounty land if he served in the Continental Army, but that land would have been in the U.S. Military District in Ohio. If you're talking about an 1812 soldier who was in Georgia in 1805...yes, he could have gotten federal bounty land in IL, AR, or MO, or if he got bounty land later under the act of 1850 or 1855, he could have patented land in just about any other federal land state. If he got an 1812 land warrant, he should be listed as a "warrantee" at the BLM website. If he patented the land himself, he would be listed both as the warrantee and the patentee. If he sold the warrant, he would be listed as the warrantee, but some other person would be listed as the patentee. Peggy Reeves