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The Influence of Free and Cheap Land on Migration
Annette Burke Lyttle, CG®
Content
Welcome
44s
About BCG
3m 18s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 3s
Introduction
1m 45s
Land Grants
15m 17s
Colonial Bounty Land
6m 14s
US Bounty Land
19m 49s
Federal & State Cash Sales
6m 22s
Homesteading
3m 23s
Announcements
1m 7s
Questions / answers
11m 11s
About this webinar
From the beginning of European settlement in North America, free and inexpensive land has been a tool for enticing settlers to migrate to new areas. The English and Spanish granted large tracts to individuals in return for bringing new people into areas with sparse European populations. Bounty land was granted to soldiers in America’s early wars. The end of the American Revolution led to a number of Federal plans to sell or grant vast acreages of public domain land. Homesteading opportunities attracted Americans and immigrants to the west after the Civil War. The availability of affordable land was a catalyst for the migration of many of our ancestors.
About the speaker
Annette Burke Lyttle, CG® owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the internat...
Learn more...Key points and insights
Annette Lyttle explains how the availability of affordable land acted as a catalyst for migration for many ancestors. The presentation covers colonial land grants, military bounty land, cash sales, and homesteading.
Key takeaways include:- Colonial land grants were used by European powers to attract settlers to new areas in North America.
- Military bounty land was granted to soldiers as an incentive to serve in wars and to populate frontier areas.
- The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed individuals and families to acquire land by living on it and making it productive.
To learn more about this topic and delve deeper into the records that will help uncover your ancestors’ migration stories, view the full webinar.
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Comments (63)
Ms. Burke is well-informed on the subjects and I always enjoy her presentations. Glad to see her appearing here at Legacy Webinars.
Fantastic webinar! Lots of information to help me in my research. Thank you!
Excellent overview of various types of government land grants.
Thank you for a great webinar. Definitely an interesting topic and fascinating as well!
Very pleased to have handout
Nice overview with good examples. Thanks!
Very clear, concise summary--I understand it much better now
I will be watching this one again and letting my DAR friends know about this webinar. Thanks so much for such great information.