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Subject: [RHEA-L] Texas Land Archives
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:35:42 EDT

Available free from Ancestry.com until the 16th of October
http://www.ancestry.families.aol.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5112.htm
Description: Texas Land Abstracts Archives

This database is a quick and ready reference to original land grants in Texas
issued by the successive governments of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,
and the State of Texas. The database includes only original land grants.
Records pertaining to all subsequent sales, conveyances, transfers, or
alienations of the land should be sought in the county deed records of the
county or counties where the land is located. For an overview of Texas land
grants and a description of land grant categories (headrights, military
grants, scrip) visit http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/info.html A brief
history of land grants in Texas will be found at
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/history .

The database entries list, by counties, the original grantees, patentees (the
patentee may differ from the original grantee if the grantee sold his
rights), land grant class, location of the corresponding file and patent in
the archives of the Texas General Land Office, date of patent, and acreage.
Within the county listings, each tract is assigned a number, known as the
abstract number. Polk Co. A-86, for example, identifies the Daniel Allday
grant in that county. An abstract number is simply that, an identifying
number, and should not be confused with an abstract of title (summary of the
successive conveyances of a tract of land) that title-insurance companies,
for instance, compile.

The original land grant records listed in this database are maintained by the
Archives and Records Division of the Texas General Land Office (TGLO). Within
this agency the records are arranged by the 38 land districts into which the
254 counties of Texas are divided. The long description shows the
three-letter code for each land district.

Extended Description:


The following are the prefix codes for land districts in Texas:

AUS Austin LAM Lamar

BAS Bastrop LIB Liberty

BEX Bexar MAT Matagorda

BOW Bowie MIL Milam

BRA Brazoria MON Montgomery

BRS Brazos NAC Nacogdoches

COL Colorado PAN Panola

FAN Fannin PAS Paschall

FAY Fayette RED Red River

FOR Fort Bend REF Refugio

GAL Galveston ROB Robertson

GOL Goliad RUS Rusk

GON Gonzales SAB Sabine

HAR Harris SAU San Augustine

HAS Harrison SHE Shelby

HOU Houston SPA San Patricio

JAC Jackson TRA Travis

JAS Jasper VIC Victoria

JEF Jefferson

The Texas General Land Office offers a name search service on names found in
this database. To access the name submission form, click on the link (link
here). Please limit your requests to four names or less, include your fee of
$3.00 per name (check or money order) payable to the Texas General Land
Office, and mail the form and fees to the following address:

Texas General Land Office Archives and Records Division
P.O. Box 12873
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/


Allow at least three to four weeks for a response. The response will include
a list of the items in the file, with the cost of obtaining copies, and will
note any genealogical information found in the file pertaining to the name
submitted.

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Texas Land Title Abstracts [database online] Provo, UT:
Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Texas General Land Office. Abstracts of
all original Texas Land Titles comprising Grants and Locations. Austin,
Texas: , 19--.

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