Do you have a legal description of the property - e.g. its physical location? If so, there may be a record of its previous ownership, and there may be people in the neighbourhood today who might be able to help you. I say that without much hope, but in tracing ancestors I've sometimes found it helpful to "come through the window", as it were. [That's an old Stan Freberg reference, Angie. Ask your father about it! We still use it in our house.]
