Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• 1 Why Use Land Records?(p. 1)
• Why do researchers avoid land records?
• What can land records tell us?
• Land records solve problems!
• 2 Where Are the Records?(p. 17)
• How was the land transferred?
• Records in deed books that aren't deeds
• 3 Finding a Deed Without Using Vacation Time(p. 41)
• Focus on place and time
• Where are the deed books?
• Step by step
• Leaving home
• 4 Finding a Deed in a Courthouse(p. 55)
• Scoping out the territory
• You're there!
• Using deed indexes
• 5 First Transfer--Getting Land Into the Hands of Individuals(p. 68)
• Model 1 The New England System
• Model 2 The Colonial Government System
• Model 3 Large Grants and Proprietors
• Model 4 Federal Lands. Big cities and smaller towns. Bounty land
• 6 Public Lands(p. 79)
• Establishing the public land system
• The records
• 7 What's in a Deed?(p. 102)
• Preface
• Parties
• Payment
• Property
• Provenance
• Postlude
• Process
• 8 How to Record What You Find(p. 117)
• Extracting a deed
• 9 Records of Residence(p. 121)
• Tax records
• Urbanites and city directories
• 10 Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers(p. 126)
• Types of maps
• 11 Metes-and-Bounds Land Platting(p. 139)
• Platting
• Step by step
• Locating your ancestor's land
• Problems
• 12 Public-Land Survey System(p. 151)
• Land descriptions
• Anomalies
• Appendix A Locality Reference(p. 158)
• Public land
• Appendix B General Resources(p. 184)
• General information
• Historical background
• Additional help
• Appendix C Glossary(p. 188)
• Index(p. 204)