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:NARA Pacific Region (San Francisco)<br>1000 Commodore Drive <br>San Bruno, California 94066-2350 | :NARA Pacific Region (San Francisco)<br>1000 Commodore Drive <br>San Bruno, California 94066-2350 | ||
The | The FamilySearch Library has the following sources: | ||
*''Plantation records, 1942''. Records provide the name of the plantation, the owner and who depended upon the plantation for support including the name, age, sex and relationship to the plantation owner). San Francisco Federal Records Center, San Bruno, California (FS Library International film 1084654 Item 2). | *''Plantation records, 1942''. Records provide the name of the plantation, the owner and who depended upon the plantation for support including the name, age, sex and relationship to the plantation owner). San Francisco Federal Records Center, San Bruno, California (FS Library International film 1084654 Item 2). | ||
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Determine the time and place your family might have owned property. | 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). These records are found in the local town or county office, or many times on microfilm at state archives or the | 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). These records are found in the local town or county office, or many times on microfilm at state archives or the FamilySearch 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> | 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> | ||
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