Well duh Joan. <g> I wrote that and yes, I've done it. We happen to have several abstracts which are treasure troves so I went to the title company and asked them about it. They want an exact address and maybe the name of the current owner. The current owner is particularly useful for farm land where the exact address is unlikely to be known. If they have an abstract on file you can have a copy for whatever their copying costs are. That would depend on the number of pages. Abstracts are legal size. I had to take several to be copied because I don't have a legal size copier. This is not the same as ordering an abstract to be made which, of course, involves doing all the research and can be quite expensive. Now that I think about it, one abstract had a deed from the 1840s. That's during the lost files period at the courthouse. Presumably that owner produced it at the courthouse after the fire. There is only one title company. It's across the street west from the courthouse. It's called something clever like Logan County Title Company. Abstracts may contain transcriptions -- important to note, it is all transcriptions, not originals -- of the original deed or at least the first deed after purchase from the federal government and then everything relating to that property after that, deeds, lawsuits, wills, probate, etc. In a probate it would only give the parts that affected that property. Generally for a will it gives the whole will. Cheryl Rothwell