Recently the number of indexed land records increased for New York State on FamilySearch. The collection United States, New York Land Records went from 40 million to 45 million records. I tried very hard to find what Counties or records were added but I couldn’t find any detailed data on the collection. I did a …
Did you know that FamilySearch has a collection named United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975? Over the last few years people have been indexing the land records of some New York Counties. You can search for an ancestor’s name and see if the records him or her have been indexed. The description says they …
The last couple of days I have been looking at deeds for my 3rd great grandfather, Richard Buell. The deeds for Genesee County, Michigan are online on the FamilySearch website. He bought somewhere between 800 and 900 acres of land in Michigan in 1840. He moved his family there soon after. My research showed that …
A couple of weeks ago FamilySearch added digital images of NY State deeds and mortgages that they filmed many years ago. The collection “New York, Land Records, 1630-1975” covers most of New York State except Franklin, Nassau, and Queens Counties. In New York land records are filed at the County Courthouse. The collection usually covers …
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