Don't sort it. Photograph it. Send us pictures of everything, even the stuff that looks like junk, and we will tell you what your family actually owns. Free, in plain English, whether or not you ever sell anything.
Somebody in every mineral family ends up holding the box. Forty years of division orders, a lease from 1974, check stubs from companies that stopped existing during the first Bush administration, a deed nobody can read, and three letters from landmen the family never answered. Nobody knows if the pile represents four hundred dollars or four hundred thousand, and every professional who could tell you seems to want something.
We will tell you for free, and we are equipped to actually do it: reading exactly this kind of paper is what a landman does all day.
Photograph everything in the box with your phone. Every page, even the ones that look like duplicates or junk mail, because the worthless-looking transfer order is often the page that carries the well name and decimal that unlock the rest. Do not sort, do not organize, do not throw anything away.
Text the photos to 918-984-1645, or start with the form below and we will tell you the easiest way to get them to us. A big stack is completely fine. So is one confusing page.
A plain-English inventory of what the paper actually shows: which interests are real and appear to still be owned by the family; which wells are still producing and who operates them now, including who bought the company on your old check stubs; whether anything looks like it is sitting in suspense or at a state unclaimed property fund; and which of the papers are just expired history. Where the trail needs a document you do not have, we will tell you which one and where it lives.
If the minerals sit in Louisiana, we also answer the question that comes before all others there: whether the family's servitude survived the ten year rule at all.
Because the person holding the shoebox has usually just inherited minerals, and we would like to be the first people who were straight with them. Some families sell to us afterward. Most do not, and the arithmetic works fine either way, the same reason our Oil Scout archive, letter generator, and free calculators exist. If what the box shows is worth keeping, that is exactly what we will tell you, and if there is money to shake loose from an operator, we will show you how whether or not you ever sell.
Do not sign anything that arrived in the mail, whether it is an offer, a division order, or a "confirmation of ownership," until you know what the family owns; our got an offer page explains why. Do not pay anyone to "search for your minerals" before the free routes are exhausted. And do not throw away a single page, including the envelopes, because postmarks date documents that carry no dates of their own.
If the minerals have not been moved into the heirs' names yet, our free guide to transferring inherited minerals walks through the paperwork, and the letter generator writes the operator notification for you.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. Send whatever you have, even just the county name, and we reply within one business day.
Get a Free Valuation or call or text 918-984-1645