I’ve come up against a dead end of sorts. I’ve been unable to find any wills or probate and I have a couple generation gap because of it. I am not quite sure exactly what I am looking for as well. There is so much information out there, I’ve been using Ancestry to help me fill in blanks for relatives that may have had inheritance rights but unfortunately my family had a lot of members who died young and left no heirs so I don’t have any one to contact there.
Do I just need to look for the most recent title or deed for the land and see what it shows for mineral rights ownership and work backwards from there? I got onto the Bureau of Land Management website and found the original Land Patent information. They also have a section titled Mineral and Land Record System that says it has mineral and land transactions. Does anyone know if that site has anything helpful to look up?
Again, thank you to everyone who has given me answers, tips and information on what to do. I am not as lost as I was, but I’m still stumbling around in the dark a bit and I feel every little bit I find on my own is helpful, I hope anyway! Thank you so much everyone and hoping you’re all having a lovely spring evening wherever you may be.