Land patents and how they work my parents house had a patent back in the 1800's and I updated it to my name

Although I don't like to lead people away from this site since there is the possibility that there might be a member here who could specifically address your needs, but in the meantime, until that person comes along, there is quite a bit of information to be found by clicking on the following link. Land patent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_patent)