Please reply ONLY on the Board (link below): ============================================ This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0VB.2ACE/259.1.1 Message Board Post: Keep in mind when searching deed and tax records that the the deed does not necessarily correspond to the date the house was built. The deed is simply a legal means of recording transfer ownership. In the mid nineteenth century and earlier land was occupied and homes were built, but a deed recording ownership may not have been filed or recorded until several years later.