How do you find out about people who lived or died in a house?

Question: How do you find out about people who lived or died in a house!?

In movies I remember looking at micrefische( I probly spelled wrong)
Someone I know said their son saw a little boy and little girl looking at him in their house!. Maybe he was dreaming, but how can we find out about previous owners!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Previous owners is easy, you go the the local county recorders office and do a search on the property - technically it's a title search!. It's a public record, so you can do it yourself, the clerk should help you!.

Who "lived" in the house is more difficult, if the house was rented out, you might not be able to find records on that!.

I don't believe that anybody keeps death records linked to address of death - for that information you'd have to search newspaper indexes for any mention of that street name in connection with a death and search out the street number manually!. Even then you might miss it!. It certainly isn't as easy as they make it look in the movies!.

The real estate requirement to inform the prospective buyer is fairly recent and I believe it's limited to what the current owner "knows" - so if the current owner doesn't know about a death in the house, how can they tell you about one!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well !.!.!.in some states or city/counties like where I live !.!.the Real Estate Office selling a particular house are obligated by law to disclose the historyof the house (if asked), like if someone died there and the circumstances of the death !.!.!.like if a murder happened there or a suicide!. Check with the real estate offcice that sold the house or with the county assessor office or county registrar's office!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

well one why would you want to and two well like the other dude said you can go to th library and check it out they might have the right information or they might just checkout books and might not have anything about itWww@QuestionHome@Com

That should all be public record!. You can go to your library and ask where you can find that information!. Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

you could ask your neighbors or look up history on the netWww@QuestionHome@Com