Thank you, Don. I do have a newspaper notice of the sale to take place on 31 Mar 1784, so I suppose the best thing would be to find a case before that date with my party being the defendant. Unfortunately the LDS doesn't appear to have the Common Pleas court records for that date. Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Krieger" <akadonnew@verizon.net> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Sheriff's deeds > > Hi Brenda, > The answer in my experience is: "probably not." I speak from experience > rather than from expertise so please take it with a grain of salt. I'm > sure > that there are others on the list who are far more knowledgeable. > The date of the deed may be helpful, as that must post date the action. > The > action will be found with the grantor of the deed as the defendent in a > civil case. Here in Allegheny County there is a "General Judgement > Index" > which has docket entries for "all" of the civil actions. It's held by > the > Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, i.e. the > Prothonotary's > office. Many counties do not have a Prothonotary. Here the General > Judgement Index is online for all cases running from 1973-present. The > earlier stuff must be searched on the spot or you can pay the office to > do > it. > I hope this is accurate enough to at least not be harmful. > Don > [1]http://www.DonsList.net - Always free, always fast > [2]http://New.DonsList.net - Recently added > > On 04/23/12, Brenda Antal<bjantal@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know if I order a copy of a sheriff's deed, will it refer to > a > court case so I can follow up to see why the property was siezed? > Thanks, > Brenda > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > [3]http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [4]PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > References > > 1. http://www.DonsList.net/ > 2. http://New.DonsList.net/ > 3. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > 4. mailto:PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >