Skip Trace

A runsheet ends with a name — often an heir who may live anywhere in the country and may not even know they own minerals. Skip tracing is how acquisition teams find that person.

Modern skip tracing combines public records (voter rolls, property records, court filings), commercial databases, and obituary matching to build a contact record. Good skip tracing also flags whether the target is deceased (requiring an heir search) or in probate.

MineralScout automates skip tracing as part of lead generation, attaching aliases, addresses, phone numbers, deceased flags, and known relatives to every Party record.