This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COUTER, MCSHANE, GOLD, MOSS, EARL, CARTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xU.2ADE/523.1 Message Board Post: Hi JoAnn - If you go to the Maricopa County Recorders office website significant information regarding your research subjects can be studied. Once at the webpage, you'll note down in the lower left side of the webpage a place to click on documents from 1968 to 1982. While these documents are not viewable, they can be purchased following your review of a brief summation of the type of document recorded. As an example in 1972 Marian Y. GOLD filed a divorce decree on behalf of her deceased father Louis H. COUTURE. Why she felt the need to record this document publicly is not known, but you can purchase it. There are no documents of Marian/Marion Arella COUTURE for this era. Perhaps Louis was divorced before 1968 and then perhaps she left the Maricopa area. A search of the recorders records before 1968 could yield some clues, but that would probably take a personal visit to the recorders office. There is also a deed recorded of behalf of Louis and daughter Marian (note her first name spelling differs from your information) in 1969. There are also documents for Alex GOLD including a deed, divorce, release of a mortage and a judgement from the era of 1969 through 1974. Marian Y. GOLD has a significant inventory of recorded documents beginning in 1969 through 1982 including deeds, releases and at least one partnership. I found no documents listed for Diane MOSS of that era. Again these documents are not viewable, but you can order them online if you think they would be worthwhile in your research. Then if you return to the home page and click on documents from 1982 to the present you can view some more (but not as many as the first era). Documents filed by Marian Y. GOLD from 1998 through 2002 include liens, releases, deeds, quick claim deeds and a assignment, some with signatures. She clearly spells her first name Marian and not Marion. Her address appears to be consistently 4505 East Vermont Avenue South, Phoenix, Arizona (AZ) 85018 as late as 2002. There are several Diane MOSS listings but its impossible to tell if any are your research subject as they mostly have middle name or initials. There are also some Diane GOLD listings if your Diane MOSS surname was GOLD. Both databases give huge clues as to who may also be related in that you can discern which COUTURE's (as an example) were resident in Maricopa during a certain era of one of your research subjects, creating some likelihood that some may be relations. Hope this helps you in your searches. Glen F. Pritchett, USGENWEB volunteer