Louisiana Land & Property Records
An index to and digital images of 2.2 million land patents, primarily cash and homestead, from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Documents recording land transfers. The records contain names, acreages, signatures, dates, mineral rights, bounds, descriptions of land and more.
Digital images of labor contracts, letters, applications for rations, reports of abandoned land, reports of clothes and medicine issued, school reports, court trials, hospital records, employment records, complaints and more relating to refugees and freedmen. Searchable by and index of around 550,000 names.
An index and digital images of claims filed by residents of Southern states for reimbursement due to property damaged during The Civil War.
An index to the names of over 15,000 people who made unsuccessful claims from reimbursement due to property damaged during The Civil War.
Various maps and documents listing and delineating around 7 million land plots and their owners. Searchable by a name index.
This database is a collection of maps and atlases detailing land areas that comprise the present-day United States and Canada, as well as various other parts of the world.
Over 235,000 documents relating to Union prisoners, legal proceedings, oaths, land forfeitures and more.
An index to and digital images of around 80,000 applications for pensions or grants to public lands in lieu of military service. Some applications may contain over 200 pages of information.
An index to over 360,000 applications for land grants in lieu of military service.