In a message dated 7/23/2004 7:33:34 AM Central Standard Time, FredRump@earthlink.net writes: PS I have another question. Does deeding a property back and forth make any sense to anyone. It seems that in 1950 my place was sold (deeded) and bought right back again on the same date and time. Doesn't make a bit of sense to me as to why anyone would do that. Fred, That is a very good question. I have the same situation in some of my genealogical data. I am looking forward to the answer. Keith of East Texas

Yes, my parents and grandparents did that all the time. There were various reasons for doing it. (All legal, I might add. <G>) One good reason would be each child was given two acres when they married. Grandpa gave the oldest child two acres when he had his first child. But suddenly, the last child marries, and grandpa is out of land. The last child is going to live in the home of the oldest child, who has now moved to a bigger house on the second set of land. So the oldest child sells the land to grandpa, who then gives it to the youngest child. Teresa Ghee Elliott Any information I give that you can't find in your version of TMG 5.14 is probably due to customization on my part. For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org For TMG sentences <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html> -----Original Message----- From: KDBarnett@aol.com [mailto:KDBarnett@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:35 AM To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DMU] Re: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-D Digest V04 #31 In a message dated 7/23/2004 7:33:34 AM Central Standard Time, FredRump@earthlink.net writes: PS I have another question. Does deeding a property back and forth make any sense to anyone. It seems that in 1950 my place was sold (deeded) and bought right back again on the same date and time. Doesn't make a bit of sense to me as to why anyone would do that. Fred, That is a very good question. I have the same situation in some of my genealogical data. I am looking forward to the answer. Keith of East Texas ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== Please turn off the "Reply To:" (leave it blank) in your messages. This is normally not needed unless you are sending from one address and expect to receive mail at a different address. ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/

KDBarnett@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 7/23/2004 7:33:34 AM Central Standard Time, >FredRump@earthlink.net writes: >PS I have another question. Does deeding a property back and forth >make any sense to anyone. It seems that in 1950 my place was sold >(deeded) and bought right back again on the same date and time. >Doesn't make a bit of sense to me as to why anyone would do that. > >Fred, That is a very good question. I have the same situation in some of my >genealogical data. I am looking forward to the answer. > >Keith of East Texas > Sometimes this was done to provide a clear line of property title. For example, when several people had owned the property jointly and conveyed their shares separately in various deeds. Kathy of Charlotte, NC