I apologize if this sounds stupid, but when I think about the past it seems like things shouldn’t have worked the way they did, but they still did anyways.
They didn’t have computers or cloud networks to record who owned what. So, how was it all tracked? Was it possible for someone just walk out west, stake a claim on a piece of land, build a house and live there for 30 years while everyone just kind of accepted it?
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If you live on the east coast, these deeds and licenses dating back to colonial times are often just hanging out at your county courthouse. Typically, a decades worth of records are bound together in a huge leather book. They are still legal records and can come into play if there’s a title discrepancy for example. You can go see them anytime you want.
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