The Lawrence County Recorder had the first 100 books of deeds professionally scanned and prepared, and the images are on line as PDF files. This covers up to some time after 1900. The downside is that they are not indexed on line, so you will have to either go to the recorders office to use the index there, or visit the Hamner Room of Briggs Library, which has a set of the first four index books and has them on microfilm. They are alphabetized by first letter only and entered in the order they were presented to be recorded. They are indexed by both grantor and grantee, where the grantor is the seller, the grantee is the buyer. Deeds were often held for quite a while before they were taken to the courthouse and recorded, sometimes until after the owner has died and the family is trying to transfer the land to the heirs. Don Clark In a message dated 5/6/2010 7:33:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cmurdock@hotmail.com writes: > From: suzetx@comcast.net > To: ohlawren@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:42:41 -0500 > Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] Morrison deeds > > How do you find the old ones? I looked at this index and it's only from the > 1980's to 2010. >

Hi Don! I was wondering if you had a chance to look at those deed pages I mentioned and if you saw anything different than I found? Thanks, Bruce -----Original Message----- From: ohlawren-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohlawren-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lawcoloreman@aol.com Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:33 PM To: ohlawren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] deeds The Lawrence County Recorder had the first 100 books of deeds professionally scanned and prepared, and the images are on line as PDF files. This covers up to some time after 1900. The downside is that they are not indexed on line, so you will have to either go to the recorders office to use the index there, or visit the Hamner Room of Briggs Library, which has a set of the first four index books and has them on microfilm. They are alphabetized by first letter only and entered in the order they were presented to be recorded. They are indexed by both grantor and grantee, where the grantor is the seller, the grantee is the buyer. Deeds were often held for quite a while before they were taken to the courthouse and recorded, sometimes until after the owner has died and the family is trying to transfer the land to the heirs. Don Clark In a message dated 5/6/2010 7:33:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cmurdock@hotmail.com writes: > From: suzetx@comcast.net > To: ohlawren@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:42:41 -0500 > Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] Morrison deeds > > How do you find the old ones? I looked at this index and it's only from the > 1980's to 2010. > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oh, I see. Well, me being here in Texas doesn't allow me to do either of those things. Did you find anything at all when you went to the library Tuesday? You were going to look for Solomon Nelson and his wife Eleanor "Nellie", and Benjamin Nelson. for any mention of them up to late 1830's. By 1840, they were in Indiana. Thanks, Sue -----Original Message----- From: ohlawren-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ohlawren-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lawcoloreman@aol.com Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:33 PM To: ohlawren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] deeds The Lawrence County Recorder had the first 100 books of deeds professionally scanned and prepared, and the images are on line as PDF files. This covers up to some time after 1900. The downside is that they are not indexed on line, so you will have to either go to the recorders office to use the index there, or visit the Hamner Room of Briggs Library, which has a set of the first four index books and has them on microfilm. They are alphabetized by first letter only and entered in the order they were presented to be recorded. They are indexed by both grantor and grantee, where the grantor is the seller, the grantee is the buyer. Deeds were often held for quite a while before they were taken to the courthouse and recorded, sometimes until after the owner has died and the family is trying to transfer the land to the heirs. Don Clark