I had a great deal of trepidation about trying to search for deeds at the deed office in Amherst (144 Robert Angus in the same building as the driver's license office). However, I found the system surprisingly easy to use. The staff will set you up on the computer and give you some basic pointers and you can ask for additional help if needed. I was able to search for various family members by name and by grantor and grantee to get lists of properties they had bought and sold. Once search returns appear it's a good idea to print the search results so you have the Book and page number for future reference; they don't appear on the deeds you print out. In the search return(s) you can click to view a deed which appears as a .pdf. Hover the mouse near the bottom to print. That's it. It's a little more complicated to search by a particular address. You need to do this in a slightly different area, but again the staff will assist you. The most recent deed will be returned and you will have to look at the deed to discover the previous owner and then do a search on that owner to chain back through the years. In less than two hours I was able to find about 40 deeds that I had been interested in finding. When I return home, I will be posting about most of these finds and will alert readers to updates in this blog. It didn't occur to me that I might have been able to send the documents electronically instead of printing them but I'll check that out in the future.
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AuthorHi there! My name is Mallory Burton and I started researching the Ripley family in 2011. I'd describe myself as a careful amateur who's more interested in story than names and dates. I hope you enjoy my website and blog. I also have a public Mallory/Ripley tree on Ancestry with over 4,000 names. To contact me, please comment on any one of my blog posts. Archives
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