--- Virginia Crilley <varcsix@hot.rr.com> wrote in part: > One question: > Where is the best place to locate the Headright > Grant? Is this just at the > Archives in Atlanta --- or can it be found in some > of the County Deed > books? Is it on Microfilm? > Mostly due to proximity, I prefer to do most all of my research at the GA Archives. All of the Headright Grant finding aids as well as microfilm of the Grant and Plat Books are there. There are even a few of the original warrants to have land surveyed. I've neven seen Headright Grants in county Deed Books, but that doesn't mean they're not there. What I have seen in Deeds is reference to a grant. Typically info included here is who was originally granted the land and the date of the Grant and in a few cases, even the where-abouts of the Grant (Book and Page.) In Greene and Hancock Counties, there is evidence that the county governments at some point began to think about these grants because in the Greene Co. Courthouse (and on Microfilm at the GA Archives) is a book of Headright Plats for Greene Co. and in 1857, Hancock Co. got an Index of the Headright Grants in that county. A microfilm copy of this is at the Archives, but I'm unsure if the county still has theirs. Where both of these resources fail is that neither show grants from parent counties that would fall into the newly created county. We can find 1785 Grants in the Powells Creek Watershed, that would pass from Wilkes, through Greene, then Hancock and finally into Taliaferro Co. and no reference is made to them in the above resources. But they can be title searched back through County Deeds. On a final note, There seems to be very few if any Grants in Taliaferro Co. listed in the primary finding aid for the Headright Grants. This could be because that by the time of Taliaferro's creation, most of the land had been taken (a point I might argue against), the finding aid is incomplete, or there was some foolishness going on. So if your research interests in Taliaferro go back to that 1827 Militia Roster, you might want to look for Headright Grants in Taliaferro's parent counties. Hope this helps, Lee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250