From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Oct 2 16:46:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k92MkXYn014692; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:46:33 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k92MkXu9005966 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:46:33 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k92K44FI011846 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:04:04 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k92K44cj011845 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:04:04 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k92JqUFI011758 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:52:30 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k92MYnpB014161 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:34:49 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Mon Oct 2 16:34:49 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k92MYnYn014152 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:34:49 -0600 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.57]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k92MYnoX031341 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:34:49 -0600 Received: from m1070n (cpe-69-201-76-92.twcny.res.rr.com [69.201.76.92]) by ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k92MYlJp023433 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:34:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <02dd01c6e672$f66963c0$6501a8c0@m1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: References: <324.ca370e9.3252d722@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Land Records Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:34:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Often the terms seem to be used interchangeably and perhaps the terms differ from place to place. When I go to a county courthouse in NYS to look up property exchanged between ancestors, I ask for land records. When most of us suggest people search land records we are referring to individuals buying and selling property from one another. In fact I remember seeing "Land Records" printed on the covers of some of the old record books. The descriptions on the deeds in the land record books tell how the property is bounded by neighbors and may use reference points such as trees, fences or other physical descriptions. Sometimes when the property is exchanged from one family member to family member the family relationship is described. One should not overlook land records when researching their families. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Land Records > Connie; There is a difference between land records and owning property. > Land > Records are for large tract of land that are awarded or sold by the > government to individuals that either earned it or bought it. Owning > property is > something that someone bought from someone else. If they showed up in > 1910 and > 1920 then they bought the property from someone else and would show up > in an > land title search done at the county seat should show this. If you did a > search at the BLM sight this will only show the original land owners. > > Linda >