In a message dated 3/31/99 9:41:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << The question is "are the original signatures on these deeds or are these deeds copies of deeds made by scribes who then in turn wrote "signed in German"?? Help anybody, especially..... >> Louie, The Deeds were written by the Clerk ... There were some who signed their names in the German language - I do not read German so I was the one who wrote in my abstracts that the signature was written in German. Sorry if there was some confusion over this ... Amy Gilreath