India, Punjab, Moga Land Ownership Pedigrees, 1887-1958
Collection of land ownership pedigrees (Shajjra Nasb) from Moga, Punjab, India. Moga district was just created from the Ferozpur district in 1995 and many but not all of the records for Moga were moved to the Moga District Office. These records show familial relationships as land was passed from father to son. The records are written in Urdu. A more detailed listing of the villages contained in each volume can be found on the FamilySearch Research Wiki article for this collection.
India, Punjab, Moga Land Ownership Pedigrees
What is in This Collection?
This collection includes records from 1887 to 1958 from the districts of Moga and Firozpur in Malwa region in the state of Punjab.
The records include land ownership pedigrees (Shajjra Nasb), kept by the state at the district level. These pedigrees show familial relationships of individual’s land ownership as it was passed from father to son.
The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India, has initiated a centrally sponsored scheme to computerize land records. The centrally sponsored scheme on Computerization of Land Records (CoLR) was started as a pilot project in eight districts. These districts are not part of this collection at present (2018).
| District | State | Former state |
|---|---|---|
| Rangareddy | Telangala | Andhra Pradesh (2014) |
| Sonitpur | Assam | |
| Singbhum | Jharkand | Bihar (2000) |
| Gandhinagar | Gujarat | |
| Morena | Madhya Pradesh | |
| Wardha | Maharashtra | |
| Mayurbhanj | Odisha | |
| Dungarpur | Rajasthan |
Families and pedigrees are recorded in the land records. Extended pedigrees form biographies, some going back 110 generations to 2200 BC. For more information about this collection please see Extraction of Pedigrees from Revenue Records of Punjab, India by Gurchuran Singh Gill.
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
Reading These Records
Records prior to 1950 are written in Urdu; afterwards, the records are written in Punjabi.
To Browse This Collection
| You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for India, Punjab, Moga Land Ownership Pedigrees, 1887-1958. |
What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
- Name of first ancestor to own property
- Names of children
- Type of land transaction
- History of the village
- How the subdivisions were named
- Record keeper's name
- Revenue collector's name
- Date document signed
- Name of the street, the village, district, and subdivision
Collection Content
Sample Image
Moga Land Pedigree
Collection Details
Language
Urdu
Location of Original Records
Moga District Commission
"India, Punjab, Moga Land Ownership Pedigrees, 1887-1958." Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 15 October 2025. District Offices, Moga.
