A title search company will be happy to trace the title for you - for a fee, of course. Check with your real estate attorney for contact information for your local companies.
2007-03-14 10:22:45
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answered by Lieberman 4
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I passionately love working with land records. (I run out of dead relatives to trace, and want to take on genealogy of a property). It all depends on how much depth you are wanting to find.
County land records (assuming the court house has not even burned) are the best kept type of record. With effort, you can use the grantor/grantee indexes to do what a title company does. I'd start by giving a call to a local company, and simply chat, to see if such a title search already exists, possibly in their files. The "tweak" I am suggesting is that you don't necessarily want them to run another search, but pick their brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Jack,_Missouri
Next, good old wikipedia, tells me it is Jackson county, and looks like a fairly rural area. Notice at the bottom that you can even pull it up in www.topozone, which gives great land details. Looks like it is near the county line, which may affect where you find records.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mojackso/
This is the genweb page for Jackson county. Some sites have county historical maps.. I don't see one on here, but there may be other goodies "buried" in the files. One thing to keep in mind.. if Jackson county was created from another earlier county.. the land itself may be recorded in another location. Land does not move...county boundaries do.
I also have found, when personally going to the deeds department (name varies), there are often old old maps, which indicate who the original land owner was for a parcel. If the county requires building permits, that is another place to ask, to determine possibly how old the house is.
I do a lot of work in Texas (where I live), and I find that often the state archives has maps and records that are not found on the county level.
This might be way more than you wanted, but hey, you hit my personal passion.
2007-03-14 19:46:21
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answered by wendy c 7
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