Well not a tech tip exactly, but using technology to help you out.
California has been in the news for not properly notifying citizens of property in the possession of the state. You can go see if they have any of yours at the State Controllers Office:
Two notes: The only MUST enter field is the last name. If there are thousands of Jones then you can enter a first name, or initial. Don’t forget, your property may not be under your full name…
Second tip: Once you’ve got results,if there are pages of them, look at the top right corner of the results and find “Number of records display per page.” Change it to 100 for quicker browsing.
Good luck!