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== Inheritance, Land and Tax Records ==
Record types include wills, inventories, distribution of estates, property transfers and can be used to identify family relationships.


Records begin in some areas in 1500 and may include 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).  
Research use:  Provides linking information for family relationships.


These records may be found at the National Archives, local courts and municipal archives, and [[The British Library]] in London.
Record type: Wills, inventories, distribution of estates, property transfers.
 
Time Period:  1500-present.
 
Content:  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).
 
Location: National Archives, local courts and municipal archives, [[The British Library]] in London.
 
Population coverage: 5%.
 
Reliability:  Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Myanmar,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2001.</ref>
 
== References ==
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Inheritance, land and tax records[edit | edit source]

Research use: Provides linking information for family relationships.

Record type: Wills, inventories, distribution of estates, property transfers.

Time Period: 1500-present.

Content: 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).

Location: National Archives, local courts and municipal archives, The British Library in London.

Population coverage: 5%.

Reliability: Good.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Myanmar,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2001.