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Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Digital Library Accuracy -- Deeds in the United States - Availability
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:08:45 EST
Hello Jean, EW Wallace, Everyone,
The Digital Library at the Library of Virginia referred to in my earlier
email and that of others with land grants has images of the ORIGINAL
DOCUMENTS, so you can't get much more accurate than that. They can be
downloaded directly from that site by hitting the "retrieve document" button.
It costs you nothing (but alot of time).
Again the URL is:http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm
(Note there is a wealth of other information there as well on other links)
Follow the links through to land office/records. When you get to the final
page of your choice(there are three choices), make sure that you scroll down
to the index, which is not visible immediately. You will basically be going
through a series of index cards. When you find one that is interesting there
is a link above the card for retrieval of the document.
Note that most of these land grants, except on the remote frontiers, are from
the 1600s and 1700s. So it is more likely that our grandparents' land
records in the 1800s would be found as deeds in individual counties. There
is simply no way to locate them then except by a county by county search.
Several counties have had volunteers submit deed indexes and documents to the
usgenweb archives. You might check them out. Go to www.usgenweb.com Then
to the link on the right for State Search Engine. Put your surname in as a
query, and indicate the state you want with your cursor. You will probably
find interesting items as well. If you get too many, you might want to put
in the surname and the word deed.
Good Luck,
Janet Hunter
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