# Possible Ownership of Mineral Rights
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/possible-ownership-of-mineral-rights/45249
**Category:** General Mineral Rights Discussion
**Created:** [April 29, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/possible-ownership-of-mineral-rights/45249 "2019-04-29T21:26:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Wells](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jack_Wells)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/possible-ownership-of-mineral-rights/45249/1 "2019-04-29T21:26:57Z")
I started receiving offers, about a dozen, to buy royalties/mineral rights on producing wells in Martin County, Texas that I was being told that I have a vested interest/ownership. I have never received any royalty payments in the past or even presently for these wells.
I checked Martin County’s tax records and sure enough their records say I own these mineral interests and show my name and address on their tax records. The thing is when I do a search on the Grantor for these interests it comes up Jack W. rather than Jack and has been given over to a Grantee as a trustee and shows Assignment of overriding royalty interest. How can the County assign me as owner and show my name and address in their files, but Grantor assignment is to a Jack W.? I was told that Counties don’t get this information wrong that they do a thorough check.
Do I have any recourse to try and get royalty payments since the County says I own them?
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### Author:  [@MRFAdmin\_SV](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/MRFAdmin_SV)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/possible-ownership-of-mineral-rights/45249/2 "2025-01-11T19:19:12Z")