how do i find list of all previous owners of my home?

Answer 1

Your local courthouse should have records, in the office of the registrar of Deeds, where you can research the property.

Answer 2

Well most records in the US are based on the Grantor/Grantee Indexing system. So first you have to find where the land records for your town is located, if you do not know someone at your Town Hall should start with the Town Clerk. If you are lucky, the records are on-line and you can view and print them for free, but a lot of places charge a fee and have limited records in the database.
OK, assuming you have found the records. You start with your deed. At the top it will say language that boils down to so and so sells this land to you. Write down the seller's name this is the grantor. At the bottom or second page there should be language that says for my title see deed to me from so and so dated such and such and record in Book 123, Page 345. Write this down. If there is no reference you will have to search what is called indexes. You would start from the date you acquired the property and look back to find when your seller got the property in the grantee indexes. The grantee indexes will list the book and page of the deed of your sellers, like I said if you are lucky this will be on-line or at the least it will be on computers at the land records. Now you keep repeating the process of going back and back from each deed and finding the seller and then finding when the seller was the buyer and you can go back a couple hundred years or so if you want. The furthest I went back was the late 1700's. It can get a bit complicated when the people on the deeds own a lot of property, you have to make sure the legal descriptions match up, also, legal decriptions can change when the property has been sub-divided. Good luck. Or you could just hire someone to do the research for you, usually they will have private examiners, the land records staff will not do it for you, they will help you get started, but some of them can have a real attitude, however, the private land examiners will perform a search and give you an abstract for a fee, ask land record staff for a referral to a researcher.

Answer 3

I was curious about the same thing. I went to the courthouse to the records department ( not sure if this is the name or not). Anysway, they had all the previous owners of my house and the dates that they had lived there too. I thought it was really interesting.
Good luck with your search.

Answer 4

I know where I live, I can check online. I did a search for my county appraisal district. You can look by address and it shows all the past owners.

Answer 5

get lot, block and section number from tax assessor. take that to county clerk and look up the deed.