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In other languages: Inheritance, Land and Tax Records
These records can be used to provide linking information for family relationships.
These records include wills, inventories, distribution of estates, property transfers. Records begin about 1500 and exist to the present. About five percent of the population may be found in these records.
The following information may be found in these records: Names of individuals, their parents, children and grandchildren, dates, relationships, sometimes places of events, race, civil status, clan affiliations, land holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of land transfer, residence, land descriptions, fathers’ names and sometimes names of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition (from a parent or grandparent, by dowry, or division).
Records may be found at the National Archives, local courts and municipal archives, and The British Library in London.