Responsibilities
- Conduct detailed research of public records, probate files, and land documents to identify mineral interest owners and heirs.
- Trace title through intestate and testate successions using courthouse records, online databases, and genealogy tools.
- Analyze and interpret legal documents such as deeds, wills, affidavits of heirship, and estate records.
- Prepare comprehensive heirship reports and ownership charts for use in lease acquisition and title curative.
- Coordinate with landmen, attorneys, and title teams to resolve gaps in title or ownership disputes.
- Maintain organized and accurate documentation of research findings using internal systems.
- Ensure all research is compliant with applicable laws, title standards, and internal quality controls.
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of experience in title abstracting, genealogy, probate research, or oil and gas heirship work.
- Strong understanding of mineral rights, chain of title, and intestate succession (especially under WV and PA law).
- Excellent research and analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to interpret complex legal documents and summarize findings clearly.
- Familiarity with genealogy and land record tools (e.g., Ancestry, FamilySearch, etc.).
- Experience with land systems, CRM platforms, or document management tools is a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) or Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs).
Top Skills
What We Do
Purple Land Management, Overdrive Powered by ESRI®, is a full-service land management firm skilled at handling everything from title and leasing, due diligence and opinion certification to right-of-way acquisition, surveying and surface operations. We believe that standards can always be raised. That’s why we work so hard to give our clients – energy producers, mid-stream operators, mobile service providers, engineering firms and municipal and state agencies – more than they expect. That means we demand a lot from ourselves. It means we are always looking for new approaches, new perspectives, and new ideas to help us be better at what we do. And it means that every day, for every project, we push ourselves to exceed goals, elevate service and deliver results – not just for our clients, but also for our communities and our country. The Purple Way is about going above and beyond. Pushing the limits of what’s possible. Give more than you take. For our clients, it means we’re committed to being incredibly accurate, extremely efficient and doggedly results-oriented. For our communities, it means helping create jobs and stimulate the economy. For our country, it means being passionate about the domestic energy cause and working tirelessly to help reduce our dependence on foreign energy resources. Our Mission: Purple Land Management's mission is threefold: to hire the naturally ambitious and provide ongoing education outreach, to execute projects with the highest quality of excellence and detail, and to establish working relationships that give more than they take.
