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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Connecticut is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Delaware is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...s for the District of Columbia that date prior to 1792 are found among the records for Maryland or Virginia. Microfilm copies of Alexandria County, Virginia, Bessie Wilmarth Gahn's ''Original Patentees of Land at Washington Prior to 1700'' (1836; 1836; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ber of 'heads' in the family. The Florida State Archives is digitizing the land grants at [http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/SpanishLandGrants www.f
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Georgia is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Hawaii is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...of transactions for each section of land. Township plat books are maps of land entries for each township.
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  • Even though the city dweller is not always dependent upon his or her land for a livelihood, that quarter acre is usually as valuable as the agricultu ...order. City lots, however, may be recorded in volumes separate from county land with their own indexes or finding aids; they are easy to miss.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...across the Wabash River. A later act in 1813 provided preemption rights to land occupied in the state.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ces included the purchaser's 'outside of Indiana' residence. Original land records (1805'76), plus microfilmed copies, are at the Indiana State Library, Archi
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...osition was made by the federal government and its agents. There were nine land districts in Iowa, the first two with offices at Burlington and Dubuque in
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...become one, (3) ''not'' already own 320 acres of land, (4) ''not'' abandon land owned by him in the same state or territory, and (5) intend to use the home
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Kentucky is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] {{Template:Land series (The Source)}}
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...tes acquired 544 million acres from France for the sum of $15 million. The land of the famous Louisiana Purchase was bought for approximately three cents p
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] {{Template:Land series (The Source)}}
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Maine is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...al to a local officer to make an examination, survey, and appraisal of the land tract before placing it in the applicant's possession. The notary recorded ...'' remained incomplete. Transfers, exchanges, donations, and partitions of land were made before the local ''alcalde'' or provincial governor, then recorde
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Maryland is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Massachusetts is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ch.: Michigan Department of Conservation, 1940) for information on private land claims.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ailable. The federal government was, apparently, exceedingly slow to begin land surveys in the territory. The pressure of settlers and investors finally re
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...in Mississippi.' Further information is given in E. K. Kirkham, ''The Land Records of America '¦'' (see page 6) and ''Guide to Genealogical Research in the N
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...Society published ''Index to the Minutes of the first and second Board of Land Commissioners, Missouri, 1805'1812 and 1832'1835'' (1981; reprint, St. Loui
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...All of these offices were eliminated by 1950, leaving Billings as the only land office at present.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Nebraska is a public domain state in which land was initially granted by the federal government. The first homestead claim
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...arson County (Utah Territory) land records and land patents for the state. Land office grants are indexed on the [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov BLM website
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] New Hampshire is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] New Jersey is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...912. When it became a part of the United States, it became a public-domain land state.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] New York is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] North Carolina is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...plats are located at the BLM, P.O. Box 222, Billings, MT 59107. To search land patents, use the BLM website [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov www.glorecords.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts claimed portions of land in this part of Northwest Territory based on charters granted by the kings
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...or labor with the Five Civilized Tribes in exchange for land tenancy. Land records for the nations were filed under their respective Bureau of Indian Affairs
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...me of the wife, record of migration to Oregon, record of settlement on the land, citizenship, and names of witnesses and those who testified in behalf of t
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  • ...section indicates the officials or repositories in charge of the original records. ...ltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000); and E. K. Kirkham, ''The Land Records of America and Their Genealogical Value'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret, 1964).
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  • This collection contains land records, mostly deed books of indentures, from Delaware between the years 1677 and <gallery widths=100px heights=100px caption = "The following records should be classified as 'Deed Book" - key all of the information present on
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  • This collection contains records pertaining to land held in California by people of Japanese descent. Choose the "Estate Card" form type for images of cards with the words "Alien Land Ownership-Estate" at the top of the image.<br><br>
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  • ...by non-naturalized immigrants from 1921-1942. Immigrants included in these records are mostly of Japanese descent, but those of Chinese, Indian, and Korean de ...ult for immigrants, especially those of Japanese descent, to own land. The records in this collection represent individuals who attempted to circumvent these
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  • ...by non-naturalized immigrants from 1921-1942. Immigrants included in these records are mostly of Japanese descent, but those of Chinese, Indian, and Korean de ...ult for immigrants, especially those of Japanese descent, to own land. The records in this collection represent individuals who attempted to circumvent these
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  • This collection contains records of land purchased in New South Wales, Australia, 1857-1859. ...ase records, information to be keyed is not always uniformly laid out. The records are all handwritten in hand drawn tables with one exception where the infor
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  • #REDIRECT [[World Archives Project: New South Wales, Australia, Land Records, 1856-1859 (Part 2)]]
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  • ...vens and Kent's ''County Government Archives'' cited under [[Vermont Court Records]]. ...ound in the register's office or orphans' court. (See [[Pennsylvania Court Records]] for other county offices.)
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  • ...conflicts developed with both Massachusetts and Connecticut colonies over land claims. Good collections of Rhode Island records, the indexing of early materials, and the short distance from one end of th
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Rhode Island is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...dence for the social status of a family and its presence in a town when no land is owned.
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  • ...tribes in New England. 'Indian' is a term found often in all categories of records for the state. As with African American slaves, natives often took the name
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  • ...storical Society, in its large collection of manuscript material, has many records on African Americans. ...tribes in New England. 'Indian' is a term found often in all categories of records for the state. As with African American slaves, natives often took the name
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  • ...nning dates that land and probate records can be found and where the court records for that town can be located. Some early records for the four original towns, Portsmouth, Providence, Newport, and Warwick a
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  • ...), the complete United States 1790 census, and published revolutionary war records from most of the colonies. ...00,000 family group records submitted by LDS church members. Most of these records were microfilmed; the submission code is listed with the submitter's name,
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  • ...with this centralized group of records before focusing on individual town records.
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  • ...vital records, censuses, maps, tax lists, military records, and state land records. See Robert M. Dructor, ''Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pennsylvania
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  • ...each female and each male under sixteen. Instead they chose security over land, surrounding their houses with a palisade and confining themselves to ten-a ...Charleston in 1783, it was the only repository for South Carolina's public records until 1785 and remained the capital of South Carolina until the legislature
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  • Brent Howard Holcomb, ''A Guide to South Carolina Genealogical Research and Records'' (Columbia, S.C.: the author, 1986) and George K. Schweitzer, ''South Caro ...urces available to genealogists. A link to an updated 'Series List' of the records indexed appears on that webpage.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] South Carolina is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...ho would inherit. If there were no male heirs, all female heirs shared the land equally. South Carolina abolished primogeniture with a law that became effe
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  • ...is article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by [[Kay Haviland Freilich]], CG, CGL, and [[Ann Carter Fleming]], CG, CGL ...often-neglected sources'such as business, institutional, and organization records'can help us determine facts and at the same time supply rich contextual inf
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...hly. See also Alexia J. Helsley & Michael Stauffer, ''South Carolina Court Records: An Introduction for Genealogists'' (Columbia, S.C.: The Department of Arch
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  • ...is article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by [[Kay Haviland Freilich]], CG, CGL, and [[Ann Carter Fleming]], CG, CGL ...s may have kept regarding its [[Customer Records|customers]] or [[Employee Records|employees]].
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  • ...rgaretta, Leland, and Isabella G. Childs, 'South Carolina Episcopal Church Records,' ''South Carolina Historical Magazine'' 84 (October 1983): 250-63. ...lina and Georgia'' (N.p.: Ben Franklin Press, 1982). South Carolina Quaker records are included in William Wade Hinshaw, ed., ''Encyclopedia of American Quake
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  • ...is article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by [[Kay Haviland Freilich]], CG, CGL, and [[Ann Carter Fleming]], CG, CGL =Company Records and Histories=
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  • ...is article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by [[Kay Haviland Freilich]], CG, CGL, and [[Ann Carter Fleming]], CG, CGL ...hat can lead us to other records. Details from membership applications and records often include dates and places that can be very helpful in our genealogical
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  • ...is article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by [[Kay Haviland Freilich]], CG, CGL, and [[Ann Carter Fleming]], CG, CGL Benedict, Karen M. ''A Select Bibliography on Business Archives and Records Management''. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1981.
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  • ...a Department of Archives & History appear in ''A Guide to Local Government Records in the South Carolina Archives'' (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carol
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  • ...a Department of Archives & History appear in ''A Guide to Local Government Records in the South Carolina Archives'' (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carol ...tensive online catalog of manuscripts, books, and family histories (60,000 records) can be searched at [http://www.schistory.org/searchcatalogue.htm www.schis
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  • ...ds of both. A complete listing of the counties of South Carolina and their records is found on the following chart, Districts and Counties, 1800'Present. ...often recorded records when they acquired local government, so some of the records pre-date the formation of local governments.
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  • ...ptions are given. This description can then be used to locate federal land records. Additional information in 1905's enumeration gives the length of time the ...Identifies federal, state, and territorial censuses, as well as substitute records (FamilySearch Research Wiki).
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...for land claims (1864'1915). Once granted by the federal government, later land transactions were filed with the county register of deeds.
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  • ...will be available at a central location. At present, there are some county records housed at the state archives, but many remain at the local level. ...archives, such as adoption records, insanity records, and mother's pension records have restricted access. Dates with (?) have not been verified by the state,
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  • ...increasing number of Anglo settlements, battles with Native Americans over land rights, constantly violated Native American treaties, and numerous changes ...h had purchased over twenty million acres from the Cherokee, began selling land for speculation between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers.
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  • ...rtial Census of 1787 to 1791 of Tennessee as Taken from the North Carolina Land Grants'' (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990). Twenty-six of Tennessee's counties have federal census records for 1820. These middle and west Tennessee counties are Bedford, Davidson, D
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  • ...ry county government now has a website. Many include records or indexes to records held by various county agencies (see [[Tennessee County Resources]]). ...he most helpful source material. It details library collections and county records with dates.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Tennessee is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...n which the state was a party, such as state land grants recorded in court records.
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  • ...Roots, 1345 Oak Ridge Turnpike, #318, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, which includes records from 1816 through 1839. ...le: Tennessee State Library, 1983). Acklen's two-volume work (see Cemetery Records) includes references to manuscripts.
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  • ...each category at the county seat, but this is not meant to imply that all records are extant from that date. County formation is from information supplied by ...is is a county-by-county guide to published WPA typescript and microfilmed records.
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  • Most records for Native American families from Tennessee are located in Oklahoma. The ma ...state until December 1835, when their final exodus began. Even though all land had been ceded, some Native Americans remained in Tennessee after that date
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  • ...and on microfilm. In addition to AISI indexes and online access to census records (see page 3), other published indexes of federal population schedules are a ...amily members. This is available at the Texas State Library as part of the records group contained in the Nacogdoches Archives section for 1753 to 1836 on mic
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  • ...Available Town and County Local Histories, Local Memoirs and Genealogical Records'' (Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1983); and ''Texas Counties, a Catalog of In- ...ries for Texas. Historical and genealogical societies publish a variety of records including histories of the counties and towns or cities. To obtain a list o
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  • The GLO (see [[Texas Land Records]]) houses original plat maps for the state (see [http://www.glo.state.tx.us ...'s ''Map of the State of Texas''. Compiled from the Records of the General Land Office (GLO) of the State. Houston: n.p., 1849.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Texas is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...ons is more thoroughly outlined in the Kennedy and Kennedy, ''Genealogical Records in Texas'' (see [[Background Sources for Texas]]). Although English common
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  • ...y level and maintained by the office of county tax assessor-collector. Tax records through 1980 are filed with the state comptroller of public accounts. These ...library loan. A record of taxpayers of Houston was enumerated in 1839. Tax records through 1901 through 1947 are readily accessible, but not on interlibrary l
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...s are filed at the local county courthouse. An extensive array of military records, too numerous to list here, has been published. The list would include Revo
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  • ...o Texas and are based on records no longer extant in Texas port of arrival records. ...asley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1984. Lists surviving fragments of records.
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  • ...oldings of the Local Records Division of the Texas State Library of County Records on Microfilm'' (1978; 2d ed., Austin, Tex.: Texas State Library, 1990), is ...pective area. Thus there is no one state depository with a complete set of records.
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  • ...roups added their tracks, followed by the Gold Rushers of the early 1850s. Records of all of these parties are available, mostly in published form. ...St. Louis and north from Taos in search of beaver. Osborne Russell's diary records that he wintered in the Weber Valley in 1843 with a party of French-Canadia
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  • [[Category: U.S. Birth, Marriage, and Death Records]] ...egister births. In 1898, the state legislature provided for central county records, requiring county clerks to keep separate birth and death registers.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ds. See also Utah State Archives' detailed online research guide 'Original Land Titles in Utah Territory' at [http://www.archives.utah.gov/referenc/land2.h
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  • ...ng process, it is best to contact them first regarding a specific county's records in their holdings. Those county record books before 1905 that have not been ...to the Utah State Archives (see [[Utah Probate Records]] and [[Utah Court Records]]). Those at the county seat reside with the county clerk.
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  • ...l events occurred that had far-reaching impact. Free settlers were granted land, establishing property ownership. The House of Burgesses, America's first r ...prime opportunity. The London Company lured these people to Virginia with land.
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  • ...nance from 1607 to 1624. Susan Myra Kingsbury transcribed and edited ''The Records of the Virginia Company of London'', 4 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government ...records from 1622 through 1775, although there are many gaps in the early records.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Virginia is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ..., and J. Christian Kolbe, comps., ''A Preliminary Guide to Pre-1904 County Records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library and Archives'' (Richmond, Va
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...s, guardianships, inventories, appraisals, and settlements are some of the records related to a person's estate or probate record.
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  • Virginia's tax records are a rich'and largely untapped'resource. During the Colonial period, there ...es for Virginia are available at the Library of Virginia. ''Using Land Tax Records at the Archives of the Library of Virginia'' (Research Notes Number 1) can
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...provide only the name of the soldier and the unit in which he served. The records consist primarily of rosters, rolls, and lists that survived the wars and s
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  • ...rched at [http://www.familysearch.org www.familysearch.org]. Most original records remain in the county and independent city courthouses. ...ties have been absorbed by independent cities. To the extent possible, the records of the county are detailed separately from those of an independent city.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...nt to attract settlers to sparsely populated regions and to distribute the land fairly to the settlers.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • ...ational Archives'Pacific Alaska Region]], and microfilm copies of selected records are available at the [http://www.familysearch.org The Family History Libra Other important Native American sources include school records and special compiled collections. The Chemawa School in Chemawa, Oregon, an
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  • ...h originally held in the county seat, many county land, probate, and court records have been transferred to the state archive's regional branches. ...important as it will direct researchers to the correct county where older records are filed. Other dates were taken from the Washington State Archives'Region
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] West Virginia is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...ancipations, school commissioner reports, and cattle brands. For a list of records in this collection by county, see [http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollectio
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  • ...nia, collected taxes from as early as 1624. See the section [[Virginia Tax Records]] for a comprehensive discussion of the laws governing taxes, the types of ...es in their offices. The Library of Virginia has the personal property tax records from 1782 through 1863, when West Virginia became a separate state.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • ...records created by the clerk since its inception. Microfilm copies of the records (nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) can be searched at the Archives ...vital records are located at the clerk's office at the county seat. Court records, including naturalizations and divorces, are at the circuit court clerk's o
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...es of Wisconsin land patents are also available. The National Archives has land-entry case files. See Alexander F. Pratt, 'Reminiscences of Wisconsin,' in
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  • ...prior to 1907 are on microfilm for the entire state (see [[Wisconsin Vital Records]]). Census holdings include all federal censuses for all states. The societ ...e [[Census Records for Wisconsin]]), sets of land, probate, court, and tax records from many Wisconsin counties and municipalities.
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  • Records indicate, according to Zachary Cooper in ''Black Settlers in Rural Wisconsi ...aties on one parcel of land, requiring at times the repurchase of the same land.
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  • ...e the responsibility of the following offices: birth, marriage, death, and land'register of deeds; court'clerk of courts; probate'county probate court. ...ganization and questions of attachment affect the creation and location of records, they can be quite important to the researcher.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ed timber-culture entries, desert-land final certificates, canceled desert-land entries, and timber and stone lands.
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  • ...iles, school and land records, censuses, and photographs of Indians. These records are available at the [[National Archives'Rocky Mountain Region]] in Denver ...sts, or Congregationalists. In Wyoming, British companies had considerable land holdings and controlled numerous cattle and horse ranches.
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  • ...xist before mandatory statewide recording, but most counties hold marriage records. Some even date before incorporation. ...onducting extensive research on the county level to determine which county records have been deposited at the Wyoming State Archives and which are only availa
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA, [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, a
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  • The only extant records for Alabama of the almost-destroyed 1890 census are portions of Perryville ...Conecuh, Dallas, Franklin, Limestone, St. Clair, Shelby, and Wilcox. These records have been published and indexed.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ners were required to file proof of their land title with the U.S. General Land Office (GLO). Abstracts of the files are found in the ''American States Pap
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  • Military and state census records are housed at this repository in addition to most copies of county material ...rvice and pension records, Jefferson county newspapers, and Alabama county records. The BPL also has WPA compilations of Alabama source material found nowhere
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  • ...A sizable group of materials on native inhabitants who occupied Alabama's land has been microfilmed through the National Archives (see page 11-12). Topics
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  • ...bused and neglected. Some records have simply disappeared. Other scattered records are now preserved by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the Un ...ve had less destructive fires are indicated on the chart. However, not all records were lost.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...omain, and unclaimed land was surveyed by the federal government and sold. Land offices were established at Sitka in 1885, Juneau in 1902, and Nome in 1907
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  • ...ch became part of the Gadsden Purchase) was part of the ''Primeria Alta'' (land of the Upper Pima), which included the northern part of Sonora in Mexico. ...preserving, making accessible, and microfilming early Spanish and Mexican records, along with those developed during the territorial and statehood periods.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...Recorder's Office at Tucson should be researched for Gadsden Purchase land records, which also include mission claims.
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  • Researchers should be aware that many Arizona records pre-date the county formation due to mining claims, grants, territorial cou ...rchives, and Public Records website has links to 'Accessing Arizona Public Records' with public record and county information.
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  • ...well as census, county, land, church, cemetery, marriage, military, vital records, and an invaluable bibliography. ...f Arkansas, 1947: A Narrative....'' 4 vols. Hopkinsville, Ark.: Historical Records Association, 1947. A continuation of the above three volumes by Herndon.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...lished in 1812, the United States government agreed to acknowledge private land previously granted by Spain and Mexico. Two grants were also awarded to pre
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...of 1812, and various Indian wars. The commission also has compiled service records for Arkansas men for the Mexican War, [http://www.ancestry.com/civilwar150
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  • ...e been used for recording purposes. Some county clerks also maintain court records, but most are at the office of the clerk of the circuit court. Addresses fo ...n, ''A Survey of the County Records of Arkansas'' (Newport, Ark.: Arkansas Records Association, 1972). Both were used in compiling the chart that follows.
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  • ...il the Mexican government secularized the mission holdings in 1833 and the land passed into private ownership. Citizens of Spain and Mexico occupied the co ...efore these cases were adjudicated. Not until March 1851 did Congress send land commissioners west to review all grant titles.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...t of documents (1797'1845), and the San Jose clerk's archives hold various records from 1792.
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  • ...otal missions built were founded by Father Serra. Microfiche of some vital records from the missions is available at the FHL. ...ds are deposited and others have individual parishes that retain their own records. Each diocese has a website with links to individual parishes, making the s
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  • ...se are considered one port of entry in passenger arrivals by sea. Southern land points of entry include San Ysidro, Campo, and Tecate in San Diego County, ...ide the United States and emigrants from within the United States, such as records for the Russian Consular in San Francisco (1862'1928), which document Jews,
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  • ...location of records. Some tribes are additionally mentioned in the agency records for the border states of Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon. This includes the Col ...icans, and more recently Latin Americans, and Southeast Asians. The public records of California include all ethnic groups, and most libraries can be helpful
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  • ...luded the names of a number of persons who arrived in California from both land and sea routes. Original sources are not indicated for entries because many ...l Society published five volumes of probate records, newspapers, and vital records covering the period of 1850 to 1866 for its county in ''Gold Rush Days'', w
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  • ...has probate books and files from the county's superior court, civil court records, and naturalizations. Divorces may be in either place, depending on how the ...ifornia State Archives and the FHL both have microfilms of selected county records. Current information for county offices can be found at [http://www.state.c
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  • ...in business. In cases where a specific occupation is given, you can search records pertinent to that occupation. ...eath and probate records, church records, naturalization records, and land records.
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  • ...e first and last years of residence narrows down the search for these land records, which, in a city like New York or Boston, can be voluminous. ...own the naturalization records you'll have to search. In cases where these records are indexed, knowing that one of two naturalized immigrants of the same nam
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  • ...ition 150 years earlier. However, they ran out of money and were forced to land at the Dutch colony. There are records for this period at the American Jewish Historical Society and the American
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  • ...ovide data of use in Jewish genealogical research, including many specific records, hours of operation, public transportation, finding aids, fees, and restric ...Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Names and addresses of vital records repositories throughout the world.
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  • ...ganized Native American land, and finally Nebraska and Kansas. Non-federal records, however, exist only for the domains of Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebra ...the United States. A treaty with the Ute followed in 1864, ceding all Ute land east of the Continental Divide. Despite the treaties, the period from 1861
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...th other federal statutes, provided for the disposal of most of Colorado's land.
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  • ...nth and eighteenth centuries, will find in this period more variety in the records than they have previously experienced. There are several reasons for this, ...aces. At the same time, they also need to be alert to the possibility that records originally entered in one volume will, in modern times, be split out and pu
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  • =Records= ...County probates, but the deeds have not been published.<ref>''The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts'', 3 vols. (Salem, 1916'20).</ref>
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  • ...Massachusetts colony records in addition to searching the town and county records of Maine. ...and David Pulsifer.<ref>Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., ''Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England'' (Boston, 1855'61).</ref> The
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  • ...ad virtually no relevance for record keeping, inasmuch as land and probate records were at all times maintained by the towns. The General Court of Trials, whi =Records=
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  • ...entury) remained the creators of the usual run of civil and criminal court records. Over the decades, however, probate jurisdiction was divided and subdivided =Records=
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  • ...in 1982 by Kay R. Merrill and is very helpful in locating published county records. Every-name indexes to the journal are also available. ...d ''The Rocky Mountain News'' beginning in 1939 and includes a few earlier records. These will be searched by library staff for a fee; some years are covered
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  • ...so the governor of New Jersey, but the proprietors retained control of the land. In 1738, New Jersey became completely independent of New York and, for the =Records=
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  • ...ecording began (see Vital Records) are located in the various County Vital Records offices. A list of telephone numbers is available at [http://www.cdphe.stat Court records are found in county and district courts, with probate records in the district courts (unless moved to the [[Colorado State Archives]]).
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  • ...ct royal rule from 1692 to 1694. However, control over both government and land was returned to Penn, and Pennsylvania remained a proprietary colony until ...ut and the Susquehanna Company, on the basis of a territorial claim of any land to the west of Connecticut along the same parallels, began a number of sett
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  • ...as such. On the other hand, the researcher must be prepared to examine the records of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey in resolving many Delaw =Records=
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  • Except for 1890, Connecticut has a complete set of federal census records. Either originals or microfilm copies and book indexes to all of the above ...lbrook Research Institute, 1977), which combines a number of sources (tax, land, church, freeman, probate) in an attempt to count the heads of household by
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  • ...vels, reducing the impediments to research arising from the loss of county records. =Records=
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  • =Records= ...ors, which became known as 'proprietary grants.' This separate proprietary land office was established by Charles II in that year as part of his political
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Connecticut is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...eastern North Carolina. The colony of Virginia went so far as to make some land grants in this region. ...From 1663 until 1729, the colony was ruled by the proprietors, who granted land under the usual terms. In 1729 seven of the eight proprietors sold their ri
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...research sources and clear jurisdiction on land and vital records. Probate records and finding the correct jurisdiction for a particular time period is more c
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  • ...were held outside Charleston. Despite these jurisdictional expansions, all records that might elsewhere be housed at the county level were in South Carolina h =Records=
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  • ...Society]] and the genealogical collections throughout the state have some records. See Frederick Robertson Jones, ''History of Taxation in Connecticut, 1636' ...f which is usually itemized. Later years indicate out-of-state owners. The records have not been microfilmed as a group, but the originals can be researched a
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  • ...ilarities to the system of proprietors of the other southern colonies, and land was granted to individuals by the trustees. The grant to the trustees expir ...with eight counties being erected in that year. Thus, there are no county records from the colonial period.
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  • ...and west in New York. Reports from the frontier are quite common including land advertisements, letters from former residents, and social items. An index ( ...bound in these collections, but other items such as school records, church records, and original copies of wills and deeds can sometimes be found. There are n
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  • Bartlett, John Russell, ed. ''Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, 16 Candler, Allen D., ed. ''The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia''. 32 vols. Atlanta and Athens, Ga., 1904-89.
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  • ...rent district or districts. For earlier probate divisions, see the Probate Records section above. If a town was formed after its probate district, only that d ...ttp://www.familysearch.org The Family History Library] (FHL). Town meeting records, with their rich material describing various aspects of the town, are not a
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  • ...oday, mostly as a geographical description in wills, deeds, and assessment records. Delaware remained a part of Pennsylvania until the Revolutionary War but h ...and western and southern Sussex counties. Consequently, very few Delaware records exist for this area before 1775.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Delaware is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...in print. The Delaware Public Archives has an online probate database with records up to 1925 at [http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/collections/probate.shtml www
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...cludes not only court, but civil, ecclesiastical, vestry, Bible, and other records.
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  • Much of this history, along with post-1664 census records, is outlined in Scharf's ''History of Delaware'' (see [[Background Sources ...xpand their plantations; and 3) Virginia emigrants also seeking either new land opportunities and/or to escape the growing religious intolerance of the Vir
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  • ...rths, marriages, and deaths recorded by the counties, see [[Delaware Vital Records]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Military Records" by [[Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck]], MA, MS, and [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]]
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  • ...s for the District of Columbia that date prior to 1792 are found among the records for Maryland or Virginia. Microfilm copies of Alexandria County, Virginia, Bessie Wilmarth Gahn's ''Original Patentees of Land at Washington Prior to 1700'' (1836; 1836; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical
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  • ...County, was under Prince George's and Montgomery county jurisdiction. The land originally belonging to Virginia consisted of Fairfax County and later Alex ...aling with bankruptcy, manumissions and emancipations, fugitive slave case records, habeas corpus papers, and marriage licenses for 1837 to 1862 were also cre
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  • ...records before 1863 are at Washington National Records Center. Later court records are in the appropriate court's office. ! Land
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  • All of Florida's federal population census records are available at the [[Florida State Archives]] and more widely available t ...of male and female free persons of color, the number of acres and value of land, and the value of buildings, furniture, and plantation livestock.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ber of 'heads' in the family. The Florida State Archives is digitizing the land grants at [http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/SpanishLandGrants www.f
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...able through the FHL and the Florida State Archives. These records include land, vital, probate, soldiers and sailors discharge papers, naturalizations, gu
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  • Voluminous records of various aspects of black life in Florida have been surveyed for ''The Bl ...including lists of slaves are interspersed throughout the archives' county records microfilm collection. A few counties (Gadsden, Leon, and Gulf) provide inde
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  • ...n records. Land records can be misleading on absentee owners, but election records were sworn documents requiring proof of residence, usually six months in th Among the most useful records for those tracing ancestors at the time of statehood are the returns of the
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  • ...epartments with few exceptions (see Vital Records). Many of the courthouse records have been microfilmed by the LDS church and can be ordered through the FHL. ...ties have indexes to earlier dates such as 1900. Once the record is found, records can be ordered and paid for online.
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  • ...often omitted or unreadable. Land lottery, military, tax lists, and other records, discussed under other headings, are available as census substitutes and su Both the Georgia Archives and the FHL have a complete set of Georgia census records and mortality schedules.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Georgia is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...unty basis in the late 1780s. By 1783 Georgia tax laws provided for taxing land according to its quality and quantity, and male polls were white males over ...nta has selected and indexed some tax digests for the years 1789'1819. Tax records no longer exist for every county, and others were omitted from the foundati
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...vice frequently during the colonial period. Unfortunately, few informative records remain to tell who was involved in what conflict. Murtie June Clark, ''Colo
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  • ...on, D.C. The Georgia Archives has indexed unpublished typescripts of state records concerning the Creeks and Cherokees, including information on their white r ...r preserved each type of record listed above. In fact, the number of local records attesting to a specific slave is minuscule when compared to those available
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  • ...then recorded with the clerk of the superior court in each county. Probate records were recorded with the clerk of the ordinary court, as were marriages. Most ...county records on microfilm and has several collections of loose, original records.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Hawaii is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...d, can be traced to the arrival of Soryu Kagahi, a priest of the True Pure Land Sect and a native of Oita Prefecture. He arrived at Honolulu Harbor in Marc ...ion to the various parishes in the diocese, thus making requests to obtain records and information relatively easy. The Catholic Church today is the largest C
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Military Records" by [[Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck]], MA, MS, and [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]]
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  • ...e for the individual counties, but in Hawaii, the counties do not hold the records. For a more complete discussion as to the location of county record sources ! Land
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...of transactions for each section of land. Township plat books are maps of land entries for each township.
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  • ...e the Mormon presence remains strong today. Mormon ward/branch and mission records are available at the FHL. Brigham Young University'Idaho is a Mormon instit ...n converting the Native Americans to Christianity rather than settling the land. Methodists and Presbyterians arrived in the region before the Catholic fat
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  • ...ka (Seattle) and the Idaho State Historical Society. Northern Idaho Agency records are also available at the FHL. ...rds for accounts of individual Indians, records concerning owners of ceded land, irrigation, forestry, loans, and law suits. The Fort Hall Agency administe
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  • ...records and court records, including judgments, minutes, and miscellaneous records, are available previous to county formation. In the list that follows, the ...ho State Historical Society library also holds microfilms of most of these records. Other large collections on microfilm are at the FHL.
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  • ...o a coherent pattern, and then following them as they lead you into public records that add to the detail'or perhaps alter the assumptions. Is the medal from ...[1880 U.S. Census|1880 census record]] and, ultimately, public and private records for the children and their older siblings. Eventually a living descendant w
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  • ...Protestant frequently differed, and those differences dictate the types of records to be used. ...research because of their multilayered bureaucracies, the sheer volume of records created by enormous populations, and a lack of printed indexes and access t
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  • Even though the city dweller is not always dependent upon his or her land for a livelihood, that quarter acre is usually as valuable as the agricultu ...order. City lots, however, may be recorded in volumes separate from county land with their own indexes or finding aids; they are easy to miss.
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  • ..., and Gazetteers,' in ''Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records''. ...be listed by subject. School district and cemetery maps may help to locate records from those agencies. The New York Public Library has one of the largest cit
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  • ...t search engines are also good places to begin a search for specific court records. ...if indexes and records are immediately accessible or if storage of actual records in an off-site location will make it necessary to make two or more trips to
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  • ...ich are sometimes dispersed rather than in compact collections. The school records themselves are usually kept at the municipal level, but the library can pro ...nealogical Society of Utah and the Family History Library have brought the records of the world to our doorsteps. Lubomyr Wynar's ''Encyclopedic Directory of
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  • *Land sales'descriptions of the land and names of grantors and grantees *Politicians'stories and records of achievements and wrongdoings
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  • ..., you'll likely be able to use that information to find church or cemetery records. Likewise, if the newspaper indicates that the death was sudden or unexpect ...rmation may also open the door to possible court, cemetery, land, or other records.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...across the Wabash River. A later act in 1813 provided preemption rights to land occupied in the state.
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  • ...es was sold at public auction. There do not appear to be any surviving tax records from this territorial period. ...rial. The 1819 laws provided the first taxation process, imposing taxes on land, bank stock owned, slaves and indentured negroes or mulattoes, plus a poor
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  • ...a newspaper search might direct the researcher to otherwise unknown court records. The chance spotting in a newspaper of a court docket might be the only clu ...ese entries can be the key to locating original case files and other court records.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...ganizations from the State of Illinois,' an index to the National Archives records, is located at the [[Newberry Library]] (NARA microfilm publication M539) a
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  • ...from Chicago Newspapers, 1845'' (Chicago: the society, 1975); and ''Vital Records from Chicago Newspapers, 1843'1844'' (Chicago: the society, 1974). Some sug ...records, road petitions, registers of slaves and free negroes, and probate records are only a few of the multitude of historically important documents in the
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  • ...(Springfield, Illinois, 1991, second edition) or request the Genealogical Records and Mail Research Policy brochure from the archives.
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  • ...eds, cemetery records, naturalizations, church records, and extensive land records.
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  • ...(Springfield, Illinois, 1991, second edition) or request the Genealogical Records and Mail Research Policy brochure from the archives. ...ies at state universities include archival material from 102 counties. The records include original local govern-
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  • ...ant for the genealogist are advertisements about insolvent debtors, forced land sales, educational opportunities, and professional services. In some cases, stories like that of Mary Wellington may lead to court records, but even when they do not, news items of this nature can shine a light on
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  • ...onic records have become powerful tools for accessing newspapers and other records from around the world. In the personal and local news columns, we can trace ...n extensive and very fine sea wall has been built, fifty or sixty acres of land are in excellent cultivation, and this work as well as other building servi
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  • ...were required to register six months after they arrived in Illinois. These records are extant. Many slaves were leased from slave owners in Kentucky and Tenne ...after 17 January 1829, possibly recorded in the common pleas court files. Records of African Americans in Illinois frequently gave places of origin in the sl
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  • ...Counties listed with an asterisk (*) are those in which you may also find records for the respective county since it may have been 'attached' to that county ...nown to exist in that county. It does not indicate that there are numerous records for that year and certainly does not indicate that all such events that yea
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...ces included the purchaser's 'outside of Indiana' residence. Original land records (1805'76), plus microfilmed copies, are at the Indiana State Library, Archi
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  • Commission on Public Records<br>140 N. Senate Ave.<br>Indianapolis, IN 46204<br>[http://www.in.gov/icpr/ The keystone to this collection is its focus on military and federal land records, described earlier. Other holdings are described elsewhere in this chapter.
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  • ...vision also holds an Indiana Marriage Index, 1958'97, an Indiana Mortality Records Index (index to mortality census schedules from 1850'80), and some online i Commission on Public Records<br>140 N. Senate Ave.<br>Indianapolis, IN 46204<br>[http://www.in.gov/icpr/
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  • ...red the microfilming of records. A WPA project filmed vital records, court records, naturalizations, wills, slave registers, some Revolutionary War pension fi ...ed again by fire or natural disaster. The original county of Knox lost all records in a fire of 1814. ''Hoosier Genealogist'' 4 (1964) includes a listing of c
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  • [[Category: U.S. Birth, Marriage, and Death Records]] ...ginning when the county started keeping other records as well. Early birth records contain only minimal data'name, date, place, and names of parents. Death ce
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  • ...rical Society of Iowa does hold, in addition to the above-mentioned census records, the manuscript state copies of the 1850, 1860, and 1870 federal censuses f ...mpleted no longer exist. Because of this complexity, any research in these records should be preceded by obtaining the aforementioned publication by Loren N.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...osition was made by the federal government and its agents. There were nine land districts in Iowa, the first two with offices at Burlington and Dubuque in
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  • ...collection also includes various county government and court papers, vital records, property deeds, maps, photographs, and family genealogies. ...hing books, regimental reports, correspondence, volunteer enlistment), and records of schools and other institutions. This repository also has papers of priva
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  • [[Category: U.S. Birth, Marriage, and Death Records]] '''This article originally appeared in "Vital Records" by [[Johni Cerny]], BS, FUGA in ''[[The Source: A Guidebook to American Ge
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  • ...Counties listed with an asterisk (*) are those in which you may also find records concerning the county listed. It may have been 'attached' to those county/i ...are usually found in the office of the clerk of courts at the county seat. Land transactions are in the county recorder's office.
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  • ...ords can do the preliminary searching so that staff members can locate the records using the information found in the databases. Some will also accept electro ...oner's inquest records, probates, naturalizations, almshouse and poor farm records, birth registers, criminal case files, and more.
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  • ...oldings of Mobile newspapers and the WPA transcripts of pre-statehood land records. (Mobile and nearby Pensacola also have other libraries and archives of int
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  • ...se as the government entities themselves, there are three primary types of records of interest to the family historian: nombramientos or empleos; ''hojas de s ...to the appointment of government officials in the Americas. Because these records deal with specific places in the Americas and also a specific place in Spai
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  • '''This article originally appeared in "Immigration Records" by [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, [[Kory L. Meyerink]], MLS, AG. FUGA, an ...nited States, family origins may have been forgotten. Because most foreign records are kept at the town level, discovering the name of a native town, county,
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  • '''This article originally appeared in "Immigration Records" by [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, [[Kory L. Meyerink]], MLS, AG. FUGA, an 1718: Discontent with the land system: absentee landlords, high rents, and short leases in the homeland mo
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  • '''This article originally appeared in "Immigration Records" by [[Loretto Dennis Szucs]], FUGA, [[Kory L. Meyerink]], MLS, AG. FUGA, an ...e citations, such specific statements are usually readily proved in church records or other sources in the ancestral country.
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  • ...), published by the author (Vicksburg, Va., 1984). Testimonials and voting records regarding the slavery question in the settlement of Kansas. *Richmond, Robert W. Kansas: ''A Land of Contrasts''. 3d ed. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Forum Press, 1989.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...become one, (3) ''not'' already own 320 acres of land, (4) ''not'' abandon land owned by him in the same state or territory, and (5) intend to use the home
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  • ...nclude the Kansas State Historical Society and the ''Guide to Public Vital Records in Kansas'' as indicated by the society. ...formation. In those cases the dates in parentheses are those for when the records begin. County seat names in parentheses are original names or county seats
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  • ...he county seat. The following year the McAfee brothers and others surveyed land along the Salt River. In 1774, James Harrod founded Harrodsburg as the firs ...and rivers for his Transylvania Company. John Finley's stories of Kentucky land precipitated Daniel Boone's subsequent exploration. Boone blazed the trail
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Kentucky is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...recorded along with regular proceedings of the county court. Circuit court records include inherited estate disputes. Some counties have transcribed early wil
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...filed in folders in boxes or cabinets. Many of the books containing court records have been microfilmed and some have been abstracted and published. The grea
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...e strong collections that cover service as well as pension and bounty-land records.
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  • ...ludes numerous rare books, manuscripts, published sources, and documentary records concerning settlement of Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley; it is a must f *Kentucky Family Records (1969-present). Owensboro, Ky.: West-Central Kentucky Family Research Assoc
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  • ...ibraries and Archives]] (see [[Kentucky Vital Records]]). Land and probate records may be available at the office of the county clerk or at the Kentucky Depar ...tes of some records. Land records may pre-date county organization because records were transferred from the parent county.
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  • ...te:Land series (The Source)}} '''This article originally appeared in "Land Records" by [[Sandra Hargreaves Luebking]], FUGA in ''[[The Source: A Guidebook to Platting can be done with a protractor, a circular 360° compass, or a land measure compass divided into the four quadrants of 90° each. Graph paper i
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  • ...ed in colonial Louisiana between 1800 and 1803 should begin in the Spanish records, not the French. ...uth in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Then France settled the land, but its decaying monarchy had little regard for the colony, while it was o
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  • *Ardoin, Robert B. L.'' Louisiana Census Records: 1810'1820''. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 2 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. ...ts mouth to the German villages, with indications of how they acquired the land. Date mentioned 'after 1731.'
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  • *Notre Dame University. ''Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576'1803''. Notre Dame, Ind. *Poret, Ory G. ''History of Land Titles in the State of Louisiana''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Department of Na
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] ...tes acquired 544 million acres from France for the sum of $15 million. The land of the famous Louisiana Purchase was bought for approximately three cents p
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  • ...te neighborhoods for a neighborhood study, establish relationships, locate land, and so on. Unfortunately, most of these lists no longer exist in Louisiana
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  • ..., military service records, assessment records, and records from the State Land Office and colonial documents.
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  • ==[[State of Louisiana Division of Archives Records Management, and History]]== ..., military service records, assessment records, and records from the State Land Office and colonial documents.
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  • ...iety of Utah has filmed court, property, notarial, probate, tax, and vital records for many Louisiana parishes, which are available through the FHL. The Louis ...uisiana.gov/admin/admin-births.htm]. Land, probate, court, and other vital records may also be found at different addresses than those shown in the following
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  • ...n-bottom: -.5%;">[[:Category:U.S. Birth, Marriage, and Death Records|Vital records]]</p><p style="margin-bottom: -.5%;">[[Overview of African American Researc ...580-1331. On the attached map, Greene is located at H3. Record loss, 1876. Records fragmented. [[Greene County, North Carolina|Read more...]]</p></div>
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  • ...and in general, presiding over Reconstruction policy. Some of the bureau's records are rich in genealogical content, and some will reveal the name of the form ...pre-1865, at times revealing name changes or differences in names. Bureau records are often the main and only link to identify the former slave owner. They m
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  • ...Hampshire, including Revolutionary soldiers, settled in Maine, assumed the land was theirs for the taking, and found themselves in disputes with original p ...principally because of the numerous governmental changes affecting the way records have been kept.
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  • ...erated about blacks after emancipation can be found, genealogically useful records that were contemporary to slavery are usually concerned primarily with the ...ick's The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography).<ref>Tony Burroughs, "Records Specific to African Americans - The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company,"
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Maine is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • ...0 census (see [[Census Records for Massachusetts]] and [[Massachusetts Tax Records]]). What survives is on microfilm with a printed inventory at the New Engla ...od. No survey has been done to catalog these. Reading through town meeting records may unearth what was recorded in the early nineteenth century. Later tax li
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...s of Soldiers of the American Revolution who Applied for State Bounty...in Land Office'' (1893; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967); Cha
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  • ...n of extant Maine town records. Researchers will find the Maine Historical Records Repository Guide on the [http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/mhrab/repos/dirpage
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  • ...n of extant Maine town records. Researchers will find the Maine Historical Records Repository Guide on the [http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/mhrab/repos/dirpage ...and sold by the society, along with vital records of Mount Desert and the records of Rev. Edward Carter. The organization's library is presently at Cutler Me
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  • ...y clerk). The [[Maine Town Resources]] that follow will also have marriage records. | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Land'''
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  • ...daily life. Aided by the common element of the Catholic religion, Spanish records are generally more extensive than their English counterparts during the col This chapter reviews the types and locations of records generated in the Spanish language by the colonial governments of Spain as w
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  • ...large parishes. In smaller parishes and in earlier years, all three of the records may have been kept in the same book, although generally within separate sec ...shed or dispensed with. In addition to the above, the marriage certificate records any special difficulties or circumstances surrounding the event. For exampl
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  • =Notarial Records= ..., printing of books, apprenticeship records, contracts with professionals, land titles, executions, inventories of decedents' estates, guardianship estates
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  • ...al to a local officer to make an examination, survey, and appraisal of the land tract before placing it in the applicant's possession. The notary recorded ...'' remained incomplete. Transfers, exchanges, donations, and partitions of land were made before the local ''alcalde'' or provincial governor, then recorde
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  • ...for Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, the colony was called Maria's Land or Mariland. ..., slaves from Africa, and laborers who worked off their passage to the new land. The Europeans had good relations with the original inhabitants, although b
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  • [[Category: U.S. Birth, Marriage, and Death Records]] ...anns were to be posted three days before a marriage, but very few of these records exist. Those that do are indexed at the Maryland State Archives. When the A
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Maryland is a [[State-Land State]].
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  • [[Category: U.S. Federal, State, and County Court Records]] ...so ''Index to Inventories of Estates, 1718'1777'' (Annapolis, Md.: Hall of Records Commission, 1947), and the following works compiled by Vernon L. Skinner, J
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  • ...epositions, and maintained the local archives. Existing local governmental records for Texas are divided among three archives: the Bexar Archives, the Nacogdo ...; and the Newberry Library in Chicago. Transcriptions of other Nacogdoches records are in custody of the Nacogdoches County clerk.
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  • [[Category: U.S. Military Records]] ...'1789'', edited by Edward C. Papenfuse and others (Annapolis, Md.: Hall of Records Commission, 1977). For Marylanders on the other side, see Richard Arthur Ov
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  • ...cally at Santa Fe, where they are currently housed in the New Mexico State Records Center, which also has an excellent collection of genealogical materials, b ...n 1821. Excluded from these archives are official land grant documents and land conveyances in special collections.
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  • ...nterey, Branciforte, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Sonoma. Many of these records were later transferred to the surveyor general's office in San Francisco an ...ffairs, censuses, and elections, 1828'49; ''alcalde'' and ''ayuntamiento'' records, 1828'50; official acts of judges, 1842'46; papers regarding ships at sea,
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  • ...ecords have been transferred to the Maryland State Archives. As new county records are created, they will continue to be microfilmed and sent to the state arc | || colspan="10" | A courthouse fire in 1893 destroyed marriage records for 1791'1847 and naturalizations for 1892'1893.
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  • ...nd Spanish officials and most of the colonists left for Cuba, taking their records with them. After the return of Spanish control in 1783, the colony was larg ...ollowing repositories have collections of these materials as well as other records relating to Spanish rule in Florida:
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  • [[Category: U.S. Land Records]] Massachusetts is a [[State-Land State]].
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