Find Patents at the General Land Office Records (GLO) Website

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Bureau of Land Management’s General Land Office Records home page The Bureau of Land Management’s General Land Office website hosts over 5 million title records for US public-land sales. Through the 1862 Homestead Act, the federal government distributed 270 million acres of land across 30 states. About half of the recipient “homesteaders” successfully proved their View Website VIP Subscription