My reason for interest

[kristina_aduka]

I looked up my name on our state Treasury for lost money owed to me. There was a mineral rights and royalties for over $100. I called to ask what this matter was in regards to. The woman wouldn’t give me that information and said I would have to open a ticket to find out the information. I thought what would have right for? I thought it had to be furnace oil I paid for in a home I rented years back, and must have went undelivered, or something to that effect. So I called the oil company who had supplied the oil. The man I spoke to had no record of owing me any paid for but undelivered oil. Told me things didn’t work that way as well. You pay first, we deliver what you paid for. So I eventually went back to the state treasury site to open up a ticket to claim ownership. But it was no longer listed. So I called to inquire. The woman said it was seized for tax debt. I asked her where did this money come from, she said she no longer could access that information. Without offering me a source for whom I could ask. I hung up, but have never forgotten about its mysterious origin. I have wondered if it came from my Grandmother. I believe she has mineral rights to land in Waterloo, Ohio. Don’t know much except she once gave me a couple thousand dollars of her profit to buy my first car in 1989. She told me that the land where she grew up her father had purchased for $1 an acre back in 1920 or before. There had been a long court battle with the company who drilled and mined from the property. There must have been some sort of settlement and she received payments from the company. My grandmother came from a family with 13 children. Not all were living at the time she died in 2001. I’m not sure how mineral rights are passed down. I don’t know if they would go to her children, or to her siblings. I have often wondered if this was where the Treasury funds had originated from. If so, how would I find this info? I have tried to do searches online in Ohio’s records, but I haven’t found anything helpful in my search. Not even the property which I still believe the family owns. Is there anyone who can help point me in the right direction? Would be much appreciated. Thank you Kristina Aduka