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Remember when performing a land patent search on the BLM Site (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov) that the county names might have changed between the time of the patent and today. At the time relative filed his homestead/preemption claim in 1887 his land was in Elbert County, Colorado. Today it is in Kit Carson County, which is what it was when his claim was finally approved. Just remember that those county lines might have changed. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
When transcribing data, you want to remain as true to the original as possible. However, when anlyaing data, some creavitity may come in handy. Consider organizing census information in a chart or a table, using a spreadsheet or a table in a word processing document. Take the twenty names before and after your ancestor in the 1800-1830 census and put all of them in a table? How many names (besides your ancestor) do you see repeated? Are these names possible clues? ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
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