Hello Dick, Just finished researching our ALLENs in Casey county and found their early 1800s deeds in the metes and bounds format. I understand that it may not be possible today to locate the actual land surveyed. How do they currently survey land in the old metes and bounds states, presumably not with the range-township method out west? Do they establish regional markers surveyed in with star sights down to a meter or so as we did in the missile flight test business. Of course differential GPS can fix positions down to millimeters today. But I am interested in how the old surveys are actually reconciled today. Thanks, William D. Allen Sr. end -----Original Message----- From: Rdnk4570@aol.com <Rdnk4570@aol.com> To: KYCASEY-L@rootsweb.com <KYCASEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 9:27 AM Subject: [KYCASEY-L] Re: KYCASEY-D Digest V99 #106 >Charlene, > > I'm not a registered land surveyor, but I've had to run property >descriptions back a few times, so I've walked that rocky road several times. > > > Dick Scotti >