Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records

by Patricia Law Hatcher

Accompanied by step-by-step instructions and a wealth of advice, a comprehensive guide shows readers how to identify, locate, and interpret land records in order to trace their early ancestors. Original. deed, and how to figure out how land was transferred. Original.

Genres: History

211 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2003

Reviews

[Michelle Monticello · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful. Filled with lots of details on how to search land records, what you might find there and pitfalls you might encounter.

[Kathy KS · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although first published in 2003, this easily digested work serves as a great introduction to finding and researching a wide variety of land records in the United States. Of course, there have been great strides in providing more online land records since then, this book gives valuable information on what the various records include and how to analyze their information.

I discovered today that a revised version may have been issued in 2016. This one might be the one to look for, and extrapolate from there, instead. But, I recommended the book in either edition.

[Daniel Kleven · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly helpful, lots of resources in the bibliography, step by step instructions for researching and then visiting the county courthouse and finding land records. Filled with practical tips, like, "wear old clothes because the volumes will probably be very dusty." Perhaps a little dated, but I don't know of anything that has replaced this work as an essential resource.