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A lot of records have been digitized but I still enjoy looking thought the original documents. I talked to the clerk and it appears my county has received a grant to digitize even more records. I’ll be checking out my surrounding counties libraries and courthouses in the coming weeks.
Finding the old entries that go back to patent are pretty interesting. Some of the old boundary descriptions can be funny too. They used to use whatever market was there in some cases so it'll be like the northernmost boundary proceeds to the moose shaped rock, thence 230 feet blah blah ...
I saw a couple of examples like that. I’d dread having land dispute back then.
Cool! I'd love to do this sometime. Unfortunately for me, the records of most interest to me are (if they exist), located in continents where I am not, and written in languages I cannot read...