The Brooklyn Historical Society has a collection (not online) titled Brooklyn Land Conveyances, 1699-1896 that consists of index card abstracts of land transactions in Brooklyn. I don't know whether these are abstracted from the same "New York Land Records, 1630-1975" that you've already searched. It might be worth finding out. When I did some research in the collection a few years ago, I wrote this post, which has images of the cards, so you can see what is included: http://whereyoucamefrom.blogspot.com/2012/09/church-of-visitation-of-blessed-virgin.html Here's some more info from the NYPL about searching real estate records in person: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/07/26/nyc-land-conveyances-what-they-are-and-how-they-work. Again, I'm not sure how what exists on-site at some of these institutions differs from what you've found digitized through FS. Kathleen On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 2:48 PM, VLB <vlbcfb@yahoo.com> wrote: > Good to know. Thanks, Barb. Virginia > > From: MizScarlettNY <mizscarlettny@aol.com> > To: vlbcfb@yahoo.com; nyc-roots@rootsweb.com; ny-irish@rootsweb.com; > nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com > Cc: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:50 PM > Subject: Re: How to research 1867 real estate record? > > I have intra-familial real estate transactions between Manhattan and Bronx > familiesand both residences were noted in NYT. > B > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Thanks very much for this, Kathleen. The FS info includes everything on those cards but there was no sketch for William Sheehan's land purchase. It did have a detailed description. I noticed that the purchase after his did include a sketch. As an aside, I also noticed that because I was searching the letter S for Sheehan, I came upon a number of St (for Saint, not street) land purchases as churches were being founded at quite a rate as Brooklyn grew. Not all of the 'St' churches were Catholic; some were Episcopalian. Interesting for those searching parish histories tho often a parish was formed before they had a church building.Thanks, Virginia From: Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor <kathleen.scarlett.ohara@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] How to research 1867 real estate record? The Brooklyn Historical Society has a collection (not online) titled Brooklyn Land Conveyances, 1699-1896 that consists of index card abstracts of land transactions in Brooklyn. I don't know whether these are abstracted from the same "New York Land Records, 1630-1975" that you've already searched. It might be worth finding out. When I did some research in the collection a few years ago, I wrote this post, which has images of the cards, so you can see what is included: http://whereyoucamefrom.blogspot.com/2012/09/church-of-visitation-of-blessed-virgin.html Here's some more info from the NYPL about searching real estate records in person: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/07/26/nyc-land-conveyances-what-they-are-and-how-they-work. Again, I'm not sure how what exists on-site at some of these institutions differs from what you've found digitized through FS. Kathleen