Genealogical Research: Land Grants & Maps

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U.S. Bureau of Land Management--access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present. Images are related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2002 [4 pg]
--Guide that gives and overview of using maps for genealogical research.

--Obtaining the census enumeration district (ED) for an 1880, 1900 to 1950 location in one step

Reprinted by W.S. Hein, 1998
Marx Library Gov Docs Reference (2nd FL South, Non-Circ)
KF 11 .A48 1998
Class 8 (Public Lands): v. 1-8 and
Class 9 (Claims): v. 1

Southern Historical Press, 1994
Marx Library Gov Docs Reference (2nd FL South, Non-Circ)
J 33 .M3 1994
"A Computerized Index to the American State Papers, Land Grants and Claims, 1789-1837"

Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987
Marx Library Gov Docs Reference (2nd FL South, Non-Circ)
G 1201 .F7 T5 1987

U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1994
Marx Library Gov Docs Map Cabinets (2nd FL South)
I 21.13:EX 7 X (Shelved in the United States map drawer.)

Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)
C 3.2:G 29/4/994

U.S. Geological Survey, 1987
Marx Library Gov Docs Map Cabinets (2nd FL South)
I 19.111/a:38077-H 1-UG-05 M-18 (Shelved in the United States map drawer.)

Southern Historical Press, 1983
Marx Library Gov Docs Reference (2nd FL South, Non-Circ)
F 325 .B37 1983

National Archives and Records Administration, 2009
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)
AE 1.124:114/2009

U.S. Geological Survey, [1994]
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South, Non-Circ)
I 19.2:G 29/28