For your “brick wall” ancestor, do you know (or have any idea) how far they lived from:
- the county seat?
- the nearest church of their denomination?
- the nearest place they could get supplies or transact necessary business?
- their nearest neighbor?
- the cemetery?
The list here is not exclusive. If you’ve got no idea of the answers to these questions, determining those answers may help you solve your problem.
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I haven’t the foggiest notiin of any of these. Looking for a land Grant in Mexico from the king of Spain to a gg or ggg grandfather. I don’t know where the original ranch was, just the town. Don’t even know how to start.
Do you have a copy of the land grant? Where did you get it? Is the property in what is now California?