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Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.  
Land and property records—especially deeds—can place an ancestor in a particular location and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.  


See [[Washington Land and Property|Washington Land and Property]] for additional information about early Washington land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.<noinclude>[[Category:Templates_for_WA_pages]]</noinclude>
After land was transferred to private ownership, deeds were usually recorded at the county courthouse. See [[Washington Land and Property|Washington Land and Property]] for additional information.<noinclude>[[Category:Templates_for_WA_pages]]</noinclude>

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Land and property records—especially deeds—can place an ancestor in a particular location and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

After land was transferred to private ownership, deeds were usually recorded at the county courthouse. See Washington Land and Property for additional information.