Land & Property Records
Grants, plats, deeds, and boundary language that place families on the ground.
Land records are often the most continuous SC family evidence: colonial grants and plats, later deeds in Register of Mesne Conveyance (RMC) / ROD offices, mortgages, and plats attached to estates.
Tips
- Abstract every name in a deed—grantor, grantee, witnesses, adjoining owners.
- Follow metes-and-bounds neighbors across decades.
- Watch for district/county name changes in the legal description.
- Women’s dower releases can prove marriages and survival.