Bev, When I search on Virginia, Tenn & Texas. I only get 1 or 2 counties to choose from. Is that your experience? Nan -----Original Message----- From: sc-bushriverquakers-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sc-bushriverquakers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Rampey Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:22 PM To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Brenda Brazell's request To check on where the land for your ancestor may have been, go to the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior's website and look for the state and then for the name. There are worlds of information there. We have tracked our ancestors' moves across from Virginia to Missouri by the land purchases they have made. We have also been able to get copies of the actual purchase agreements which show the various Presidents who were serving when the purchases were made. It's a great little piece of American history. Bev Rampey ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Virginia land records are available at the Library of Virginia website. http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F Many of the original deeds are online On 6/12/2012 7:39 PM, Nancy Hansen wrote: > Bev, > > When I search on Virginia, Tenn & Texas. I only get 1 or 2 counties to > choose from. Is that your experience? > > Nan > > -----Original Message----- > From: sc-bushriverquakers-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:sc-bushriverquakers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Beverly > Rampey > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:22 PM > To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Brenda Brazell's request > > To check on where the land for your ancestor may have been, go to the Bureau > of Land Management, Department of the Interior's website and look for the > state and then for the name. There are worlds of information there. We > have tracked our ancestors' moves across from Virginia to Missouri by the > land purchases they have made. We have also been able to get copies of the > actual purchase agreements which show the various Presidents who were > serving when the purchases were made. It's a great little piece of American > history. > > Bev Rampey > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

depending on the county and the age of the state (western states are skimpy), there should be pretty extensive records as soon as the "government" started keeping records of who they sold or pensioned land to. I'm not exactly sure why you weren't able to access those states' records, but it may be that they were part of a "territory" when the land was granted - such as Oklahoma (Indian territory). Also, I see where you received a response about the Virginia records. Bev On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Nancy Hansen <nanhan1@verizon.net> wrote: > Bev, > > When I search on Virginia, Tenn & Texas. I only get 1 or 2 counties to > choose from. Is that your experience? > > Nan > > -----Original Message----- > From: sc-bushriverquakers-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:sc-bushriverquakers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Beverly > Rampey > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:22 PM > To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Brenda Brazell's request > > To check on where the land for your ancestor may have been, go to the > Bureau > of Land Management, Department of the Interior's website and look for the > state and then for the name. There are worlds of information there. We > have tracked our ancestors' moves across from Virginia to Missouri by the > land purchases they have made. We have also been able to get copies of the > actual purchase agreements which show the various Presidents who were > serving when the purchases were made. It's a great little piece of > American > history. > > Bev Rampey > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I found this site, don't know if anyone has seen it or not net.lib.byu.edu/fslab/researchoutlines/US/SouthCarolina.pdf It has something (sorry about the change in type, computer changed it when I did the link and I don't know how to get it back), anyway it has something on people having to do Memorials, will do cut and paste for that part, but the document is 58 pages long and has lots more.  Correction, one of those pages that cut and paste do not work on. Brief summary:  In 1741 anyone that had land after 1719 had to do a memorial.  Can find  at SC Department of Archives and History-copies available 1704-1775.  FHL film 00232397-305, index on film 0023297.  Some can be found Katie-Prince Ward-Esker SC Memorials, 1732-1776 Abstracts of Selected Land Records from a Collection in the Department of Archives and History. 1784-1882 FHL film 022531-580, unclaimed lands when SC became a state.  Index film 022531, Partially indexed Ronald Vern Jackson, Index to SC Land grants 1784-1800. I have only briefly scanned a few pages of this document. The above says page 9 if looking at the top of document saying page 9 of 58, but when looking at the page numbers at bottom of pages, it says page 8.  This is in the right column.  Lots more help on where to look for things in SC. Now all I have to do is learn how to use this information.  Does this mean I have to go to where the records are?  Brenda Brazell