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The following links are from her lesson 6

1. Bounty Land Warrants for Military Service in the War of 1812  http://www.ultranet.com/~deeds/bounty.htm

2. At the Official Federal Land Patent Records Web site is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation information. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

3. California Land Patents  http://www.ca.blm.gov/landpatents
4. Georgia Department of Archives & History's Bounty Land Grants,   Headrights, and Land Lottery records http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/rs/land.htm
5. Federal Land Records in Idaho http://home.rmci.net/dyingst//fedland.htm
6. Family Data in Idaho Carey Act Records http://home.rmci.net/dyingst/careyact.htm
7. Indiana Land Records  http://www.ai.org/icpr/webfile/land/landindx.html
8. Tennessee  http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/countypg.htm
9. Texas http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/
10. Virginia Patent Index and Images http://image.vtls.com/collections/LO.html
11. Bureau of Land Management Geographic Coordinate Data Base  and Project Offices  http://www-a.blm.gov/gcdb/gcdbsites/index.html
12. Land Record tutorial - www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson29.htm 
13. Ancestry.com's Map Center www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference/maps/main.asp
14. Library of Congress - Geography & Map Collection http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/gmpage.html  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
15. LOC Panoramic Maps Collection http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html   
16. Fascinating World of Maps & Mapping http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html 
17. http://www.mapquest.com/
18. Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) Map Room
    www.feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html  
19. www.census.gov/geo/www/index.html  
20. University of VA - digital maps - http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/gic/services.html
21. United Nations—Cartographic Section Maps and Geographic Information Resources
    http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm 
22. Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas/Austin
    www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
23. United States  1895 U.S. Atlas - http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm
24. Canada

    National Atlas of Canada - http://atlas.gc.ca/    

    Canadian Place-Names - http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/cgndb.html  

25. Ireland

    IreAtlas Townland Database - http://www.seanruad.com/  

    Scotland Gazetteer - www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/  

26. Gazetteers

    USGS Geographic Names Information System http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html  

    U.S. Gazetteer - www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer  

27. topographic maps - www.topozone.com/ 
28. JewishGen ShtetlSeeker www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/  (Towns in Central and Eastern Europe) 
29. An Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of localities in Poland and Russia www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html   
30. BLM – Bureau of Land Management, part of U. S. Department of Interior – searchable records from 1820-1920 -  http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/  . FAQ – Frequently asked questions http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/visitor/faq.asp