Thailand Land and Property

Land and Tax Records
Research use: Primarily for family relationships and to extend lineage beyond other existing records.

Record type: Land transfer and tax records, property assessments, estates and purchase agreements.

Time Period: 600-present. Content: Land holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of land transfer, residence, land descriptions, fathers’ names and sometimes names of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition (from a parent or grandparent, by dowry, or division).

Location: Municipal archives.

Population coverage: 10%.

Reliability: Good.