Broaden Your Locations When Researching
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By The Tree Shaker-
Some of the records you can find when going to a courthouse for your research is probate records, land records and deeds, and tax, town and church records. Sometimes these are key records in helping your solve many of your brick walls.
Some of the beginner genealogists may not know what some of these records are or what information you can obtain by searching these records so I will cover what these records are and what information you can retrieve from searching these records.
Probate Records- A court record created after a person’s death that can relate to the estate to the family regarding the belonging of the deceased and what the person wishes to happen to their belongings. In other words, a will.
Land Records – A written record most generally by the clerk office regarding particular land. You can research your family’s homestead to see who all has owned the property. If it’s a family farm this can get interesting to see for sure how long the property has belonged to the family.
Land Deed – A legal document in writing that confirms the right to one’s property. Land deeds are used a lot when transferring title of property from one person to another.
Tax Records – This is not a common record to research when one is researching their family history. But it still can be interesting when knowing the assessment and value of the property in which your family member resided. To see through the years what the assessment value of property is can be very interesting to see how much economy changed the values of property and everything.
Town and Church records – When a family member has been born and raised in a particular town it is very interesting to find out the history of the town, like when it became a town and some known facts on the area. Church records can sometimes help solve a brick wall when the church keeps birth records of their members, dates of baptism and date of death of their members.
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Some of the records you can find when going to a courthouse for your research is probate records, land records and deeds, and tax, town and church records. Sometimes these are key records in helping your solve many of your brick walls.
Some of the beginner genealogists may not know what some of these records are or what information you can obtain by searching these records so I will cover what these records are and what information you can retrieve from searching these records.
Probate Records- A court record created after a person’s death that can relate to the estate to the family regarding the belonging of the deceased and what the person wishes to happen to their belongings. In other words, a will.
Land Records – A written record most generally by the clerk office regarding particular land. You can research your family’s homestead to see who all has owned the property. If it’s a family farm this can get interesting to see for sure how long the property has belonged to the family.
Land Deed – A legal document in writing that confirms the right to one’s property. Land deeds are used a lot when transferring title of property from one person to another.
Tax Records – This is not a common record to research when one is researching their family history. But it still can be interesting when knowing the assessment and value of the property in which your family member resided. To see through the years what the assessment value of property is can be very interesting to see how much economy changed the values of property and everything.
Town and Church records – When a family member has been born and raised in a particular town it is very interesting to find out the history of the town, like when it became a town and some known facts on the area. Church records can sometimes help solve a brick wall when the church keeps birth records of their members, dates of baptism and date of death of their members.
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