Posts in October 12, 2024

When performing full-text searches of court and other local records US records, when do you stop searching for a relative? Five years after they died? Thirty years after they died? Never? It can be difficult to tell. The important thing is to not stop searching after the individual’s estate has been settled. A deceased person can easily be mentioned in court records decades after their death. Recently, I discovered a court case involving a property line dispute that mentioned in 1914 an ancestor who died in 1855. Information on the heirs of the long-dead ancestor were mentioned in the 1914 court records–sixty years after he died. It is not unusual for affidavits to be filed with land records that provide information about events that took place fifty years […]