{"id":6784,"date":"2017-06-13T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2017-06-13T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:59:10","slug":"land-warrant-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/13\/land-warrant-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Warrant Applications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor obtained a United States military warrant which was used to acquire property in the federal domain, consider obtaining a copy of the application for the warrant. These applications are housed at the National Archives and should contain documentation of a soldier&#8217;s service. If the widow applied for a warrant after the soldier&#8217;s death she would have needed to prove her marriage also. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/order\">Copies of the warrant applications can be requested through the National Archives<\/a>. They are not online.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6785\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ellen-fugate-warrant-768x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ellen-fugate-warrant-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ellen-fugate-warrant-768x414-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ellen-fugate-warrant-768x414-624x336.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor obtained a United States military warrant which was used to acquire property in the federal domain, consider obtaining a copy of the application for the warrant. These applications are housed at the National Archives and should contain documentation of a soldier&#8217;s service. If the widow applied for a warrant after the soldier&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}