Actually I just found out that kentucky DID put their info on the web and it's really nice and even has some Virginia Warrants since it used to be it. http://sos.ky.gov/land/search/ Make sure you click the search in Notes box - you ancestor may have been assigned someone else's land, or is it picked up someone else's assigned land. anyway, check it out. okay - so if I wanted CA, then I need to go to the California Land Commission. I haven't gotten to that point yet, but I'm trying to help someone in my home state, and unfortunately I don't know that much, I'm first generation Californian so I haven't had to look here. THANK YOU! julie [email protected] wrote: Bureau of Land Management came into being AFTER the American Revolution--mostly after the acquisition of that great piece of land called the Louisiana Territory (Jefferson's administration). Each of the 13 colonies plus any states formed out of the 13 colonies plus Texas and Hawaii have their own Land Offices. And they control their own land. So, if you want to know about land in Texas, you write to the Texas Land Commission. If you want to know about Kentucky land, you write to the Land Office in the Secretary of State office in Frankfort, and so on. Sometimes CD-Roms have been made of these land grants. Virginia has the abstracts on their website. Kentucky, a poor state, even poorer now that a lot of automobile affilated businesses in Indiana, their neighbor, have closed down, keeps promising to put their land grants on the net, but so far it has not happened. But there is a CD-ROM of Kentucky land grants--lists and then you have to write for the actual document. I don't keep up with all the new CD roms, but you might contact Willow Bend Books or Heritage Books, both under the same management, and ask whether there CD-ROMS for the states in which you are interested. Google for both those firms. You can e-mail or telephone, if you wish. Getting sleepy. Must close, as can no longer see straight. E.W.Wallace **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com