what I am looking for are deed transfers/sales -- it appears they are working on an experimental program and a new set of passwords are necessary ....... -------------------------------------------------- From: "Frank Collins" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:50 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives > MDLandRec.net has almost all of the original land records for each county. > > Plats.net has records that include plats = several land records, some > patent related records, and a few land commissions. > > Frank > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, George Dill <[email protected]> > wrote: >> What is the difference in document contents between records at >> MDLandRec.Net >> and records at www.plats.net? >> >> George >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Frank Collins" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 1:29 PM >> Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives >> >> >>> Here is the Maryland Land Records link for the archives. >>> >>> http://v3.mdlandrec.net/main/index.cfm >>> >>> Frank >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:11 PM, CarolS Jones <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> That worked for the patents but what I had before were deeds filed in >>>> the >>>> 16 >>>> and 17 hundreds in Somerset and Dorchester >>>> but thanks for your help >>>> CJ >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: "Jimquist" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:07 PM >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives >>>> >>>>> were you thinking of >>>>> www.plats.net, username plato, password plato#, >>>>> >>>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>>> From: "CarolS Jones" <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 7:09 AM >>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: [LDR] Maryland Archives >>>>> >>>>>> I seem to have lost my touch with the Maryland Archives ......no >>>>>> matter >>>>>> what password I use I can't seem to find deeds from the 1700's that I >>>>>> used >>>>>> earlier . >>>>>> Has anybody had success recently....... Help needed >>>>>> Carol >>>>>> *************************************** >>>>>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>>>>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>>>>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>>> >>>>> *************************************** >>>>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>>>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>>>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>> >>>> >>>> *************************************** >>>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> *************************************** >>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> *************************************** >> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

To straighten things out here: the term "Land Records" is being used in different ways, creating a confusion in this thread. Generally, of course, "land records" can mean any record relating to land. But: "County land records" are the county deeds. These are the basic substance found in mdlandrec. The deeds include not only "land", but any real property or rights being conveyed, including slave sales, manumissions, powers of attorney, performance bonds of various kinds, and other odds and ends. And that's mdlandrec. Just the county deeds. Of the many, many other series of "land records" maintained by the Archives in paper, film and electronic form, a few are either indexed or imaged in plats.net. For genealogical purposes, the most important are the Certificates of Survey, which are imaged and (well, almost) complete. These are the surveyor-submitted records which became the basis of the land patents. They contain the precise legal definition of the tracts, from warrant rights to metes and bounds to plats (a tract outline map). Also in plats.net are Unpatented Certificates of Survey, which never made it through to being patented, for whatever reason. From these submissions, the Land Office created a series of "Patent Volumes", in which clerks transcribed (without the plats) the record of the Certificate of Survey, and later - when patent was awarded - another entry which documented that fact. Plats.net also contains index pointers to the Patent volumes, but not the images of those records themselves. A disappointing and serious limitation of plats.net is that almost all Certificates of Survey prior to 1705 or so were lost. So for most patents prior to 1705 there's nothing more than an index entry on-line, as the Certificate does not exist. This apparently won't be fixed any time in the foreseeable future. Plats.net also contains, irregularly, some other early index pointers to other records, and a large number of later "plats" from other series, down to the present time. Plats.net is accessible to anyone by username=plato and password=plato#. Mdlandrec.net is accessible by application to the MSA via the mdlandrec site. They will assign you a username and password. There has been no change to the above in some years. But about a year ago there was an overhaul of the mdlandrec internal indexing facility which seems to have created some problems, not yet fixed. There was a thread here a month or two back which pointed out someone's difficulty in getting at Somerset Deed Book L (deeds from 1797+) . This was because the new indexing system sends back things from the earlier Deed Book "L 1" (deeds from about 1700). The same sort of problem would seem to apply to any deed books with similar sorts of possible naming confusion. I just checked now, and see that this problem, which was reported, hasn't been rectified. John -----Original Message----- From: CarolS Jones <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 6:12 pm Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives what I am looking for are deed transfers/sales -- it appears they are working on an experimental program and a new set of passwords are necessary ....... -------------------------------------------------- From: "Frank Collins" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:50 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives > MDLandRec.net has almost all of the original land records for each county. > > Plats.net has records that include plats = several land records, some > patent related records, and a few land commissions. > > Frank > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, George Dill <[email protected]> > wrote: >> What is the difference in document contents between records at >> MDLandRec.Net >> and records at www.plats.net? >> >> George >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Frank Collins" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 1:29 PM >> Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives >> >> >>> Here is the Maryland Land Records link for the archives. >>> >>> http://v3.mdlandrec.net/main/index.cfm >>> >>> Frank >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:11 PM, CarolS Jones <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> That worked for the patents but what I had before were deeds filed in >>>> the >>>> 16 >>>> and 17 hundreds in Somerset and Dorchester >>>> but thanks for your help >>>> CJ >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: "Jimquist" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:07 PM >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives >>>> >>>>> were you thinking of >>>>> www.plats.net, username plato, password plato#, >>>>> >>>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>>> From: "CarolS Jones" <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 7:09 AM >>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: [LDR] Maryland Archives >>>>> >>>>>> I seem to have lost my touch with the Maryland Archives ......no >>>>>> matter >>>>>> what password I use I can't seem to find deeds from the 1700's that I >>>>>> used >>>>>> earlier . >>>>>> Has anybody had success recently....... Help needed >>>>>> Carol >>>>>> *************************************** >>>>>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>>>>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>>>>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>>> >>>>> *************************************** >>>>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>>>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>>>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>> >>>> >>>> *************************************** >>>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> *************************************** >>> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >>> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >>> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> *************************************** >> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? 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