Why Look Up Property Records?
If you are checking for genealogical information a good place to start looking is property records. Unlike other records one does not know exactly what type of information they could find on a deed as when people bought property ears back a person needed to be identified properly so one can find all sorts of additional information that you would not find anywhere else. Valuable information such as several family members might be mentioned as well as others and you may find dates of birth and places of birth as well as their occupations. This can help one to trace back their ancestry and where their ancestors originated from. Due to property ownership being of great importance one will find copies at any local courthouse as the originals copies were kept by the owners. Another good place to start looking is at the land registry offices where your ancestors lived as there should be records in their deeds books. Many years ago before computers came about clerks in the deeds offices regist
