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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:38:51 -0700
From: Linda Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New Web Sites--Check These Out
Sender: Linda Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello All,
 
	In the event that you are not aware of this resource, I thought
I would post the information.  The last few years, the Bureau of Land
Management has been automating their land records and releasing CD-ROMs
indexing homesteads, cash entry patents, etc.  This means that the
genealogists we deal with finally have a source to search for the exact
location of Grandpa's homestead, farm or whatever.  So far, they have
released 10 CDs, which may or may not have been passed on to your Map
Collection.  A sample cash entry patent record, showing the name of the
patentee and the location of the patent is below.
 
	Before you go to your local documents librarian to beg for these
disks, I suggest that you check out the BLM's new web site titled "The
Official Land Patent Records Site" at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.
>From this site, you can search for land records from any of 11 states
AND view a scanned image of each patent record.  To view the scanned
images, you must be running a very current edition of Netscape or
Explorer (BLM recommends 4.0).
 
	Also of interest, the U.S. Geological Survey is beginning to
work on a revised National Atlas of the United States.  They have an
interactive map browser that on the Web at http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/.
 
	Both of these sites are worth checking out.  Linda Zellmer
 
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Linda Zellmer
Map Librarian
Arizona State University Libraries
P.O. Box 871006
Tempe, Arizona  85287-1006
Phone: (602) 965-5973
Fax:  (602) 965-0883
EMail: [log in to unmask]
 
Sample Cash Entry Patent:
 
	ACCESS_NR:  OH0790__.487
	IMAGE_NAME: 00015958
	VOL_ID:     052
	IMAGE_TYPE: L
	DESCRIP_NR: 1
	ALIQUOT_PT: W«NE
	SECTION_NR: 4
	TOWNSHIP:   4 N
	RANGE:      14 E
	MERIDAN_CD: 1ST PRINCIPAL
	TOTAL_ACRE: 88.8600
	FRAC_SECT:  N
	PATENT_L_N: SPOHN
	PATENT_F_N: HENRY
	PATENT_M_I 
	L_O_CODE:   TIFFIN
	DOCUMENT_N: 4092
	MISC_DOC_N: 
	TITLE_AUTH: CASH ENTRY SALE
	SIGNATURE:  Y
	SIGN_DATE:  1830/12/06
	METES_BOUN: N
	SURVY_DATE: 
	WARR_L_NAM: 
	WARR_F_NAM: 
	CANCEL_DOC: N
	MULT_PATEN: N
	MULT_WARR:  N
	REMARKS:    
 
 
 
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