Possibly inherited Rights in Midland

Texas Mineral Rights Midland County, TX
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Hi,

Several years ago my mother received a letter from the Texas Railroad Commission referring to her as the owner of a portion of land in the Midland area. We did a bit of googling at the time but it fell by the wayside. I was recently reminded of it and started doing some digging again. My family has no information to go by other than that letter. My mother has no knowledge of any family connection to either Texas or anything to do with either the Oil and Gas industry or the Railroad industry in her family history. Her parents have been deceased for decades and she is largely estranged from the rest of her family so there is no one else in our family to ask.

I would appreciate any advice on where to begin to find out information about what her ownership stake is or even how she is linked to this property, if its worth anything etc. I have managed to find a very small bit of info on a few sites, Truthintax and Texasfile and have even been able to locate the land on a map but beyond that most other info is behind various paywalls.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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I had to do this in a nearby county a few years ago. If nothing comes up under her name, I suggest skipping to grandparents and even great grandparents by name…check both sides of the family. Then I’d try any uncles or aunts who had no heirs or whose heirs have all passed on. I found some my grandfather had purchased around 1940, and then a rep of a leasing company said some adjoining acreage was found, also. I never found that. So…try both sides of the family.

I did not find ours through the Railroad Commission but by searching County records, btw. I even had to find family wills and birth records to prove heirship. However, if the RRC sent the letter, then it has a record of her ownership somewhere. I hope you have a copy of that letter somewhere.

Otherwise, if you want to search Midland County records (I did not catch how old the record would be) you could try https://midland.tx.publicsearch.us