Hi! Thank you for this reply. It explains a lot. My problem now will be to find where John Carr's 40 acres were located. The maps on the Carroll County site and the BLM site don't give a reference to my John Carr. I'll definitely keep pushing! Robert Schneider > > 1. Re: William J. Carr/John Carr (Fleta Aday) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:17:15 -0500 > From: "Fleta Aday" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ARCARROL] William J. Carr/John Carr > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; > charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > >> My question concerning this is, are there land > records > >> in Carroll County from the 1850s? When I checked > the > >> LDS microfilm catalog, I didn't see Carroll > County > >> land records from the 1850s. > > > The Carroll Co. court burned in the fall of 1869 and > took all county records > with it, however, some land records (such as > homestead and bounty land) were > actually federal land records and would have been in > the federal land > office, not the county courthouse. Federal land > records held at the Federal > Land offices usually do still exist. Also, many > land owners had original > land records in their possession (the land records > at the courthouse are > actually legal copies made from an orginal record), > and these land owners > took their records to the courthouse and refiled the > legal record after the > courthouse burned. The dates of filing would be > after 1869, but contained > in the record you can usually find the date and > details of when and how the > land owner came into posession of the property. > Also, the first time after > 1869 when legal title to the land transfered, > whether it was sold or passed > to the heirs in an estate, there had to be a record > made at the county level > to satisfy ownership proof. So the answer to the > question are there Carroll > Co. land records prior to the 1869 courthouse fire > date is maybe. It is > alway worth a look see in the records. Very often > if you search forward in > the county land records you can at least find who > owned the land before the > first sale of the property after 1869. > > Fleta Aday > CCHS webmaster > www.rootsweb.com/~arcchs > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ARCARROL list administrator, send an > email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the ARCARROL mailing list, send > an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ARCARROL Digest, Vol 2, Issue 33 > *************************************** >