Cole Younger
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Family had been getting oil checks from 1900"s til 1986 when last well went dry. Now they are getting ready to do deep well drilling and fracking Dad owned 20% of mineral rights.Dad passed away in Dec. I called distant cousin on Sat. asked if Dad still had oil rights he told me our rights were abandoned since our last oil check was in1986 and the mineral rights go back to the property owner which is him. We didn"t abandon anything they just quit sending checks to Dad. Then he told me this new tech is making lots of farmers milionares. In Illinois the mineral rights never go back to the owner unless you buy them back or already own them with the land.This don"t sound right to me.