Well, as I suspected, you fell victim to the opaque or non-helpful guidance in mdlandrec. I won't diagnose what they didn't tell you, but just point you in the right direction: Rather than CE160, go to the subsequent links that mention grantors or grantees. Arriving there, you should be able to follow the "Next" link at the upper right to get to the surname you're after. When you find that, there will be a page number. Then use the navigation at the top to go to that index page. There you'll find the list of deeds associated with the family. Write down those you're interested in. Then return to the county home page and enter at the top the Book and page number for one of those deeds. It should appear and you should be gratified at last. You'll have to do this twice to capture the grantors and grantees, of course. Let me/us know how you fared. John GB415104@aol.com wrote: >John, > >This may be akin to admitting my shortcomings on the old fashioned  telephone >party line. But in the hope that this may help someone else, here I  go. > >    1.    After entering my User ID  and Password, I went to the left side of >the page where two county names were  displayed and chose Somerset County. > >    2.     On that  page, I chose the option "Search Land Record Indices, >1665 - 1995". That  gave me a page listing six active indices. I chose the  first >one: "CE160 - COURT (Land Records, Index), 1665 - 1841. > >    3.     That gave me a page  indicating a reference to records of 1665 - >1841 divided into three segments of  the alphabet. I chose O - Z and got my >first "The page cannot be found". Noting  the letters in red in the right hand >corner which gave a choice of either "Next  Page" or "Next 10 Pages", I tried >that route and got "The page cannot be found"  again. > >4.    I repeated this exercise with the other two  segments of the alphabet. >Occasionally, I did hit an image of text but it gave  only a list of names >and, of course, not with any  names which I am  following. > >5.     I repeated this effort with each of the other  five indices and got >variations of the same results. > >Please Comment, > >George Bacon

John Lyon .....several weeks ago, I asked an organizer of the above event re a syllabus on your presentation and presently received your direct response that you had tentative plans to post an outline (my interpretation) of your material (if there was interest, and so on). I haven't seen any followup as yet, but this will re-confirm my interest if you find it convenient to make the material available. Thanks, Joe Lake