Content
Welcome
2m 34s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 35s
Introduction
2m 25s
What Was It?
4m 4s
Homestead Act Goals
2m 19s
The First Homesteader
2m 27s
Homestead Process
6m 6s
Application
5m 25s
BLM
2m 5s
Land Entry Case Files
3m 28s
Completed Homesteads
2m 19s
Incomplete Homesteads
1m 1s
Tract Books
1m 39s
Ordering Records
1m 30s
Online
3m 41s
Changes to the Act
55s
End of the Act
1m 55s
Statistics
29s
Criticism
1m 31s
Famous Homesteaders
56s
Further Reading
6m 47s
Announcements / prizes
5m 54s
Questions / answers
22m 54s
About this webinar
In this session you'll learn how The Homestead Act of 1862 lured citizens of the United States to procure federal lands West of the Mississippi River. The application and qualification process, as burdensome as it was for our ancestors, produced a bumper crop of documents for use by genealogists and family historians.
About the speaker
Thomas MacEntee is a guy with a love of punk rock music but also art history who somehow “fell” into the technology industry years ago. He left a lucrative tech career to pursue his love of family his...
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