Tamme Tammen didn’t appear in the Nebraska Homestead database at Ancestry.com. Concerned that there might be some sort of data entry error, additional work was conducted. A search of the Bureau of Land Management website for his name was unsuccessful as well (that database contains names homesteaders who received patents for their land). It did locate […]

In the “Right Tamme in the Wrong Place,” the 1895 Illinois will of Tamme Tammen referenced property in Dawson County, Nebraska. Tamme’s nephew and others from the same area of Germany had homesteaded in the same general area and I suspected that Tamme did as well. So I searched the Nebraska homestead records using: Ancestry.com’s “Nebraska, Homestead, […]