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From: "Steve Broyles" <>
Subject: Re: [DMU] New colonial Virginia patents
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:47:12 -0400
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010908090557.02bee990@mail.rootsquest.com>


Billie, do you know the name of this gentleman?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Billie R. McNamara" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [DMU] New colonial Virginia patents


> We had a man at our local Family History Center who had mapped better than
> 50% of the state -- by hand -- from the land patents before he
unexpectedly
> died a couple of years ago. He was just starting to look at DeedMapper
> when he passed away. We all felt it was a terrible shame that his work
> wasn't able to be finished, but we're not in charge of making those
> decisions, you know...
>
> I think his files are at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond now.
>
>
> At 09:01 PM 9/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >We've updated the Deed Data Pool at http://www.ultranet.com/~deeds.
There
> >is a new Isle of Wight Co. file and the files for Sussex, Southampton,
and
> >Powhatan Cos. have been merged into single files for those counties.
> >Careful attention has been paid to getting the parcel placements to be as
> >accurate as possible. In addition, new indexes have been built for these
> >and other counties, sorted in order of the patentee. The files that have
> >been modified now contain release dates next to their descriptions.
> >
> >With these latest improvements, a number of counties are now more or less
> >completely mapped: Powhatan, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, and
> >Greensville, with other counties being well on their way. Overall,
roughly
> >10% of Virginia's patents have now been mapped out!
> >
> >Steve Broyles
> >
> >
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