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=== Land and Cadastral Records (''Land registers'') ===
=== Land and Cadastral Records (''Land registers'') ===


Research use: Primarily for family relationships and to extend lineage beyond other existing records.
These records are declarations of land ownership, property, estates and purchase agreements and they can start at 1200 and go to the present. Information records may contain are holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of deeds, 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 are located at provincial, state, city, municipal and regional archives.
 
Record type:  Declarations of land ownership, property, estates and purchase agreements.
 
Time Period: 1200-present.
 
Content: Land holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of deeds, 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: Provincial, state, city, municipal and regional archives.
 
Population coverage:  10%.
 
Reliability:  Good.<ref name="profile" />


=== Locating Land and Property Records  ===
=== Locating Land and Property Records  ===