Category - Land Record Research

A Closer Look at Land Records #4

Land records are important genealogical documents that can give you a lot of personal details on an ancestor or family line that you might not find anywhere else. Wills, estate inventories, probate...

A Closer Look at Land Records #3

If your ancestor claimed homestead land in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s, you may potentially be able to find a treasure trove of personal information on that person and their family in their...

A Closer Look at Land Records #2

Tax records are one of the easiest types of land records to search, and also one of the first ones you should look at when delving into this kind of record. Tax records on land have been around for...

A Closer Look at Land Records #1

Land records are some of the most useful genealogical records that exist, outside of the basic birth, death, and marriage records. You may not have thought about using them in your genealogical...