Trace your family's land from an ancestor's name
Type an ancestor's name, with initials if you know them, and the native village if you have it. The land registers and the historical archives are searched together, and the matches come back grouped by village, so a family's land reads as a trail of places.
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- Current holdings and the historical archives searched in one run
- Grouped by village, so the trail reads as places
- Old settlement registers included for the native village
3 creditsper run, charged only when a record comes back
What we need
One thing at a time. Fill it in and press Run.
The answer
From the register, with its date and source.
Nothing run yet. The answer appears here with everything this mini adds:
- Current holdings and the historical archives searched in one run
- Grouped by village, so the trail reads as places
- Old settlement registers included for the native village
What is searched
An inam fair register is a colonial-era register of inam land, land granted free of or at reduced revenue, prepared village by village and now held in the Tamil Nadu Archives.
- Today's records
- Village and town
The village revenue A-register and the town survey register, in English and in Tamil, for parcels recorded under the name.
- The archives
- Settlement and inam
The Tamil Nadu Archives, searched by the native village: old settlement registers, inam fair registers and the other digitised series.
- The trail
- By village
Matches are grouped by village with the register each came from, so namesakes in other places stand apart.
How to find ancestral land by name
- 1
Type the name
As it may appear in the records, with initials if known.
- 2
Add the native village
Optional, but it narrows the land registers and opens the archive search for that village.
- 3
Follow the trail
Read the matches village by village. Archive hits are scanned pages to read, not parcels.
When it helps with land
Did grandfather own land?
A name and a native village are often all a family remembers. This turns them into survey numbers and records to check.
Before a partition
Find the parcels still recorded under an ancestor's name before heirs divide the property.
Inam and old grants
Old settlement and inam registers show how land in the village was held before independence.
A name match is never proof of relation or of title. Confirm each parcel in the land record, and the family link through legal heir and succession documents.
Questions people ask
How do I find my grandfather's land in Tamil Nadu?
Type his name above, with initials if you know them, and pick the native village if you have it. Press Run and the land registers and the archives are searched together, with the matches grouped by village.
What records are searched?
The village revenue A-register and the town survey register for current holdings, and the digitised Tamil Nadu Archives (old settlement registers, inam fair registers, orders and gazettes), searched by the native village, or by the name when no village is given.
Are the archive results land parcels?
No. They are scanned register pages to read. They show how the village's land was held in the past, not what is recorded today.
Nothing found.
Try the older spelling of the village, the name without initials, or the Tamil spelling. Old records often use colonial place names.
Does a match prove the land is ours?
No. The same name belongs to many people. A match tells you where to look; title and relation are proven by the land record, the deeds and succession documents.
Why is it charged?
Several registers and the archives are searched in one run.