When searching the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) General Land Office (GLO) records database of federal land patents for warrantees, remember that the warrant is geographically tagged to the location where the patented property was located, not necessarily to where the warrantee was living.
If the warrantee assigned the patent to someone else, the warrantee likely did not move to the area where the property was located. Your War of 1812 ancestor who never left Kentucky may have received a land warrant that he eventually assigned to someone who settled in Iowa. The resulting patent (which is on the BLM GLO site) will be tagged to the Iowa location where that property was located by the patentee–not to Kentucky where the veteran resided.
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