ocr: General Land Office Automated Records Project Pre-1908 Patents: Homestead, Cash Entry, Choctaw Indian Scrip and Chickasaw Cession Lands Discover your family homestead! It's easy! Now you can trace the paths of your ancestors- those pioneers who received grants, homesteads, or who bought public land from the Federal Government. This Compact Disc (CD) contains information from 169,000 documents that officially recorded the transfer of public land in Mississippi into private ownership. You can research this land information in various ways including Name, Date, or Legal Land Description. We've in ...