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Joseph Zenophile Lanctot Land Records – Part 6

See previous posts here.During the process of proving up the pre-emption, my great-great grandfather had to ask two of his friends/neighbors to act as witnesses for him and sign an affidavit under oath...

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Joseph Zenophile Lanctot Land Records – Part 7

See previous posts here. During the process of proving up the pre-emption, my great-great grandfather had to ask two of his friends/neighbors to act as witnesses for him and sign an affidavit under...

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Joseph Zenophile Lanctot Land Records – Part 8

See previous posts here.Along with the two witnesses, Zenophile was also required to sign an affidavit regarding his residence and cultivation of the land.  His testimony is a little more in-depth than...

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Joseph Zenophile Lanctot Land Records – Part 9

This next document, as I understand it, was required in case there was any “good stuff” underground to which the government could potentially lay claim … I guess things haven’t changed that much,...

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Joseph Zenophile Lanctot Land Records – Part 10

See previous posts here.I decided to post these next two documents together, partially because they’re small and they are basically the same thing, but mostly because I can’t figure out which one came...

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Joseph Zenophile Lanctot Land Records – Part 11

See previous posts here.This is the 11th and final installment of this Land Records Series for my 2nd great grandfather.    I must say, I’m going to miss it a little bit.  However, the wealth of...

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Using Earth Point to Find Your Ancestor’s Land

As I was catching up on my vicarious attendance at FGS2012 blog reading this morning, Shelley at A Sense of Family mentioned attending an FGS session given by Jane Halderman (“From Land Records to...

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Land Ho! Using Land Records to Determine Citizenship … or not.

My great great grandfather, Joseph Zenophile Lanctot, was born in Quebec on 14 Jan 1861.  According to his Declaration of Intent, he arrived in the United States in April 1877 via the port of Detroit,...

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Oh Serendipity, You Scoundrel!

I was doing a little research on my Slowey family this weekend and decided to check the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office (BLM-GLO) website to see if the patent images had been updated for...

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Land Sales for Higher Education?

As I mentioned in my previous post, I ran across some puzzling entries while I was plotting out the land ownership for Township 96N, Range 55W in Yankton, Dakota Territory.  I discussed one of those...

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