Posts in February 9, 2021

The Bureau of Land Management database of Federal land patents (https://glorecords.blm.gov/) includes individuals who received a land warrant based on pre-Civil War military service. Not all of the individuals who received land warrants received real property. Some military bounty land warrant recipients sold their warrant to someone else and that person exchanged the land warrant to obtain title to a piece of land in the Federal domain–that’s called getting the patent. Your ancestor who got a warrant will be in the BLM database as a warrantee. How that warrant was obtained (the application) will contain information on your ancestor. The National Archives has copies of those warrant applications. Add Genealogy Tip of the Day–the book–to your bookshelf!