For title companies & attorneys
Chain-of-title runsheets and mineral research across the Texas Hill Country — every link sourced, graded, and flagged, so the records work is finished before it reaches your desk.
See sample work Get in touchI'm Aaron Holland — a Gillespie County land-title abstractor and mineral researcher. I trace a property's ownership back through the county and state records and assemble a documented chain-of-title runsheet. I handle the heirship and genealogy legwork, and flag anything that needs an attorney's eye — gaps, missing releases, breaks in the record. The work arrives finished, sourced, and organized, focused on Hill Country chains of title and the mineral estate beneath them.
Every chain is built to a careful, consistent standard: each link carries an evidence grade, every potential issue is stated as a fact for review, and nothing is dressed up as a conclusion. Work is done from the public records — organized, thoroughly sourced, and consistently documented.
The records legwork, done thoroughly and organized for the examining attorney or underwriter.
Sovereignty patent to present owner — a sourced runsheet of every conveyance, graded by evidence source.
Tracing title that passed by death — decedents, heirs, and the records that document the affidavit of heirship.
Potential chain gaps, missing recorded releases, unreleased liens apparent in the chain, and mineral severances — surfaced as factual notes for an attorney's review, never as legal conclusions.
Severance and reservation tracing — following the mineral estate separately from the surface where the records split them.
On every runsheet, each conveyance carries a source citation (volume/page or instrument number), an evidence grade (image, index, recital, or heirship), any unresolved question flagged for the attorney, and separate mineral tracking where the records split surface from minerals.
I've built full chains across the Texas Hill Country — Gillespie, Kerr, Mason, Blanco, Llano, Kendall, and Kimble — each traced back at least thirty years, several to their original 1800s State patents, with the mineral estate followed separately wherever the records split it from the surface.
This is a sample runsheet in my format — built on a fictional property so you can see the layout, the evidence grades, and how I surface gaps and mineral severances for review. It's the same format your real work is delivered in. Runsheets for real properties are available on request.
See the sample deliverable →Title companies and attorneys — I'd welcome the chance to be your local Hill Country abstracting resource. Send me a property below and I'll let you know whether I can help, or reach me directly.