I visited the basement at the county recorder's today to check out the Real Estate records and the sign they have posted for the basement records states; Grantor - Grantee indexes and Real Estate Property 1850-1957 According to the personnel everything in that room is indexed by year and then last name. The room is full of books. Kind of overwhelming when you walk in. Not something I would want to do anytime soon. Census and BMD records is fine for now for me. Just thought everyone might want to know for future reference. Deborah

Thank you Deborah for this wonderful information. What a treasure trove of data lies dormant in that basement!! 100 years of names and dates and families. I shall hope that someone who doesn't live far away will be inspired to do some look-ups. I should imagine that once you find the system there it probably would be easy, just time consuming that's all. I wish I was closer, but I'm overseas. Lillian Kathleen Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah" <ladyfelix@directvinternet.com> To: <CALOSANG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:00 AM Subject: [CALosAngeles] Visit to Real Estate Records > I visited the basement at the county recorder's today to check out the Real > Estate records and the sign they have posted for the basement records > states; > Grantor - Grantee indexes and Real Estate Property 1850-1957 > > According to the personnel everything in that room is indexed by year and > then last name. The room is full of books. Kind of overwhelming when you > walk in. Not something I would want to do anytime soon. Census and BMD > records is fine for now for me. > > Just thought everyone might want to know for future reference. > > Deborah > >