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 In a message dated 12/9/2008 6:35:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Johnlyon0@cs.com writes: My belief is that you're doing something wrong -- which may most likely mean that the lack of competent user guidance at the site has led you somehow astray. The images should be (well, I'll be stronger: *are*) there. Tell me a few of the citations you get your "unavailable" message for. There is no reason you should be unable to access these from home. But yes, the original deed volumes are all at the Archives, as well as films thereof, as well as user-accessible computers from which you can access the mdlandrec and plats.net sites, etc. John *************************************** 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 LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010)

George, 1. I am surprised you only got two county names when I go to Md. land Rec. net I get a list of all the counties in Maryland 2. After choosing Somerset I also chose the option "Search Land Record Indices" and did the same thing you did 3. I also chose O-Z and since that begins the O names I begin putting in page numbers to get to the V names On page 302 I found the beginning of the V names 4. near the bottom of that page I found the first entry for William Vaughan and that one I couldn't locate easily but the second listing for William Vaughan on that page was book AZ page 5 so I went there and low and behold at the bottom of the page was the indenture between Wm Vaughan and his wife and Thomas Thurman [?] So I think your problem was after you got to the O-Z section you need to type in page 302 of the index and go from there Carol -------------------------------------------------- From: <GB415104@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:09 PM To: <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [LDR] Tract Names, William & Mary Vaughan > 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 > > > In a message dated 12/9/2008 6:35:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > Johnlyon0@cs.com writes: > > My belief is that you're doing something wrong -- which may most likely > mean > that the lack of competent user guidance at the site has led you somehow > astray. The images should be (well, I'll be stronger: *are*) there. > Tell me a > few of the citations you get your "unavailable" message for. There is no > reason you should be unable to access these from home. > > But yes, the original deed volumes are all at the Archives, as well as > films > thereof, as well as user-accessible computers from which you can access > the > mdlandrec and plats.net sites, etc. > > John > *************************************** > 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 > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and > favorite sites in one place. Try it now. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) > *************************************** > 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 > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >