Build Your Land File: Bring What You Have
You don’t need a complete title abstract to begin. Start with a single document or photo, and add more as you find them.
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What You Can Add
- Deeds & Title Papers: Title insurance policies, old deeds, easements, or water rights.
- Woods & Farm Records: Forest stewardship plans, timber cruises, planting logs, or harvest receipts.
- Maps & Surveys: County survey plats, hand-drawn sketch maps, or old aerial photos.
- Family Stories: Letters, diaries, biographies, obituaries, or written-down memories of family and neighbors talking about the place.
- Photos from the Ground: Old homestead foundations, springboard stumps, witness trees, fence lines, or barn sites.
Add PDF, JPEG, PNG, HEIC (iPhone) photos, Word DOCX or plain text, one document at a time, up to 50 MB and 200 pages each.
What Happens When You Upload
- We extract the facts: Dates, names, and boundary calls are pulled out and shown to you. You mark each one right, wrong, or fix it.
- Your file grows: Facts you confirm go into your Land File with your own document cited as the source (No source, no sentence).
- Your Research Plan adapts: Revise your plan and new clues become specific next steps in county archives, survey records, or on the ground.
Your papers stay private. Nothing is published from them.