Genealogy | Property Records
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One of the better places to seek your family roots is in the records of property.Since the concept of owning land began thousands of years ago, property purchases and gifts have been taking place and all of them leave a trail of paper that makes our lives as genealogists a great deal easier.
Deeds, wills, transfers, mortgages and land grants are all going to go a long way toward helping you to find out where you family was, what they did and taking you another step backward in time.
On tracing my own ancestry, I found relatives in Normandy area that up until that point I’d no idea even existed, based upon property records.
Isn’t it amazing what they can reveal to us. The path our family took to get us where we grew up. Who the old homestead was sold to, and when it was sold, as well as, if it still exists, and who lives there today. There are so many tools that one can use to gather information about your family and their history. Don’t let anyone tell you that one type or another is completely worthless because it isn’t. Every small bit of information you gather is another piece to the puzzle of how you got here and what path you took.
No information you come across, no matter how difficult it is to come by, is going to be worthless when putting that puzzle together. In the beginning I was told to omit property records as they were difficult to gather and hard to find. I found them a bit difficult to find but what they revealed about my families history in West Virginia and Pennsylvania put the puzzle together nicely and I could not have gained what I did without them.
Search your families properties when you research your history. The results will very likely amaze you.
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