{"id":3334,"date":"2016-09-20T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:58:39","slug":"have-you-looked-at-federal-land-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3334","title":{"rendered":"Have You Looked At Federal Land Records?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not a record set is useful depends upon your ancestors. It also depends upon the researcher accessing those records. Federal land records are a wonderful set of records that are occasionally overlooked by researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I realized that several of my ancestors were mentioned in federal land records. Some just started the process and others completed it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thomas Johnson Rampley<\/strong> started a <em>credit land sale<\/em> in Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1817. Died before it was paid off. His son-in-law completed the purchase.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Augusta Newman<\/strong> obtained a <em>military land warrant<\/em> in the early 1850s based upon his military service in the War of 1812&#8211;he served from Kentucky.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rufus D. Stephens<\/strong> obtained a <em>military land warrant<\/em> in the early 1850s based upon his military service in the War of 1812&#8211;he served from New York State.<\/li>\n<li><strong>William S. Newman<\/strong> purchased federal property on a <em>cash sale<\/em> in Tipton County, Indiana, in 1850.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John H. Ufkes<\/strong> started a <em>homestead claim<\/em> in Franklin County, Nebraska, in the early 1870s. The claim was abandoned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focke Goldenstein<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife <strong>Anna (Dirks) Goldenstein<\/strong> completed a <em>homestead claim<\/em> in Dawson County, Nebraska, in 1889.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just my &#8220;direct-line&#8221; ancestors who appear as claimants in federal land records. There are numerous more distant relatives who appear in these records. I know that Focke Goldenstein appears as a witness in homestead applications for several of his neighbors and relatives. William S. Newman&#8217;s brother-in-law also made a cash sale for property very near his.<\/p>\n<p>Whether US federal land records will be useful in your research depends on your ancestors. City dwellers typically do not appear in these records unless the person in question was a veteran of a war before the Civil War. In that case, he may have qualified for a military land warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Have you looked in federal land records?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not a record set is useful depends upon your ancestors. It also depends upon the researcher accessing those records. Federal land records are a wonderful set of records that are occasionally overlooked by researchers. Recently I realized that several of my ancestors were mentioned in federal land records. Some just started the process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}