View source for Samoa Land and Property

== Getting Started  ==

Determine the time and place your family might have owned property. 

Research should begin at the smallest jurisdictional level - usually the county (except in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont, where town clerks have kept the records).&nbsp;These records are found in the local town or county office, or many times on microfilm at state archives or the Family History Library. 

There is a high likelihood that your ancestor can be found in land records. “It is estimated that by the mid-1800s, as many as ninety percent of all adult white males owned land in the United States.”<ref name="Hone">William Dollarhide, forward to E. Wade Hone, ''Land and Property Research in the United States,'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Inc., 1997), xi.</ref>