Hello Straub Cousins :-) Hope this is helpful to someone. If you click on the Bureau of Land Management url at the end of my message, then click Land Patent Search at the top, enter Straub and Minnesota, then it will list the following land grants, with the same details for each of the following: Straub, Adam Straub, William MN - Waseca Co. - Issued 1/1/1866 Then you can click on each individual for more info. I understand you can request the actual record for about $40. And it may contain family info, as sometimes this land is granted to children in the name of their father, who may have had a military background and they must prove their relationship, and their right to this land grant, etc. Diana Owen http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

Thanks, Diana. Adam Straub is my ancestor, born 1802.