Posts in October 6, 2026

Special Announcement Land records have you confused? We have the answer. Reading the Deed Books: US Local Land Records for Genealogists There are a lot of records your ancestor may have avoided being listed in. But if he bought or sold land, there was a record created to document that transfer and a copy of that record was probably made at the local court house. Even if your ancestor never bought or sold the land he owned, he may appear in local land records.  Deeds are some of the most reliable records we have, and genealogists overlook them all the time. This presentation covers the land records kept at the county and town level in the United States and the general structure and form of a deed itself […]