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 Determine the time and place your family might have owned property.
-Research should begin at the smallest jurisdictional level - usually the county (except in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont, where town clerks have kept the records).&nbsp;These records are found in the local town or county office, or many times on microfilm at state archives or the Family History Library.
+Research should begin at the smallest jurisdictional level - usually this is the county .&nbsp;These records are found in the local town or county office, or many times on microfilm at state archives or the Family History Library.
-There is a high likelihood that your ancestor can be found in land records. “It is estimated that by the mid-1800s, as many as ninety percent of all adult white males owned land in the United States.”<ref name="Hone">William Dollarhide, forward to E. Wade Hone, ''Land and Property Research in the United States,'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Inc., 1997), xi.</ref>
 == What’s the Next Step?  ==