{"id":7726,"date":"2018-10-11T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:01:29","slug":"keeping-track-of-the-ps-and-ws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7726","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track of the Ps and Ws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviations and symbols are great, but can be confusing when users are unaware of what they mean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7lf__WkpItQ\/VRmo04PfpSI\/AAAAAAAAPvA\/62frT2Qhxnc\/s1600\/blm-warantee-patentee.png\" \/>Such is the case of P and W on the\u00a0<i>Bureau of Land Management\u00a0<\/i>website.<\/p>\n<p>The results page on the\u00a0<i>Bureau of Land Management<\/i>\u00a0website indicates that names on the patent are either the name of a warrantee or a patentee. The warrantee is the person(s) who qualified for bounty land based upon their or someone else&#8217;s military service. Warrants were for a specific amount of property&#8211;but not location specific. The patentee is the person to whom a deed was issued for a specific piece of property. Patentees could have obtained title to federal property through a cash sale, a preemption claim, a homestead claim, surrendering their own warrant, or surrendering a warrant they had purchased from someone else (in addition to a few other ways).<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking cash land sales have the least in the way of genealogical documentation. Homesteads, preemption claims, and warrant applications have more genealogical material in them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned these files in the past, but will be looking at some new examples in upcoming blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviations and symbols are great, but can be confusing when users are unaware of what they mean. Such is the case of P and W on the\u00a0Bureau of Land Management\u00a0website. The results page on the\u00a0Bureau of Land Management\u00a0website indicates that names on the patent are either the name of a warrantee or a patentee. The [&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-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","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=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}