General Land Office (GLO) Records Web site is now back on line

The Bureau of Land Management has announced that the General Land Office (GLO) Records Web site is now back on line. The site was offline for sometime due to a court order.

One problem: As I sit here writing these words, the site seems to be down. Perhaps it is a temporary outage.

Here is the official announcement:

General Land Office Records Web Site Reconnected in BLM-Eastern States

The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States announced that its General Land Office (GLO) Records Web site is now back on line at www.glorecords.blm.gov. Title companies, historians, genealogists, and other interested people can now once again obtain millions of historic land title records from the thirty Public Land States (those States not included in the original 13 Colonies), East and West, dating back to the 1780s. These fascinating and valuable records include homesteads, patents, military warrants, and railroad grants. To date more than 4.2 million records have been scanned and imaged since the project began in 1989. This Web site provides a wealth of historical data and literally tells the story of the settlement of the West.

"The GLO Records Web site is one of the most popular Web sites at the Department of the Interior. The Web site offers customers the ability to easily research and query the GLO database by name, land description, and county, and view and print these historic documents from their homes or offices, saving them time and money," said BLM-Eastern States Director Mike Nedd.

As the BLM completes its first round of Web site reconnections of State-specific information sites, the following other BLM State Office Web sites are also once again available on the Internet: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. In addition, the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Information site is also now available. The Bureau originally disconnected these sites so that site security could be improved.

"We at BLM recognize the impact that this disconnection has had on our customers, and we thank them for their patience and understanding during this period. The last six months have posed challenges, but making sure that all constituents receive timely information about the agency's actions has been a priority for the entire agency," said Mike Nedd.

The BLM is now concentrating on reconnecting sites that provide interactive non-Indian Trust data and services. Unfortunately, sites of this kind are more complex and time consuming to reconnect. Additional announcements will be made as other sites are reconnected.

Comments

[BarteeRose]

I have tried three times to get to the BLO site by clicking on the link in your article:

www.glorecords.blm.gov

It keeps coming up as not found.

Is there a problem with the link? I am glad to know that BLO is back!!

Thanks

[Dick Eastman]

Yes. As I wrote at the beginning of that article:

"One problem: As I sit here writing these words, the site seems to be down. Perhaps it is a temporary outage."

Apparently the BLM made the announcement and I would presume that the site was up and running at that time. However, it apparently went offline soon after.

- Dick Eastman

[Chris Dunham]

It's back online as of now.

[Chris Dunham]

And now it's down again. It was nice while it lasted.