Federal Land Office, GLO, BLM

A rose

by any other name would smell as sweet.

Here is the land record link for federal land records.

• https://www.blm.gov/services/land-records
• The term "GLO" stands for General Land Office  (in 1946, it became the Bureau of Land Management).  An example of an 1845 Deed is HERE.
• To learn more about land records for the purpose of researching your history, heritage, and genealogy, link to this handout. (This link includes a discussion of state land offices, county records, and the value of land records for genealogists.
• Many Americans worked as tenant farmers in return for a share of the crop.  (True or false)?
• What is the difference between a sharecropper and a tenant farmer?
• Read more at this link:  Gale Group
• Read a page of this handout everyday until you've completed reading the handout: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flmgs/articles/BLM_LANDRECS2013_a_2.pdf   
• General Land Office (Texas): this is an example of an amazing effort to educate the public.  
• The U.S. Constitution and Private Property Connection. (Just a little off the topic--but related)
• Land, Culture, Development and Migration in the Upper Midwest