Are you working with metes & bounds or township & range? If metes & bounds, it will be tedious but you can start with the original grant & trace it through sales to the present time. Then go to the tax office & ask to see the plat for the exact place you are researching to obtain the present owner's name & address. The tax assessor can show you how to get there, show you the roads & everything else you should need. In TX, we have original land patentee's names on the land so it is easy to trace using that in a current plat of the patent or survey. If working in a state where they used township and range, that too should be easy to trace by going to the tax office & asking to see the plat for the present owner of the exact lot you want to see. Once you do that, you will have mastered the title search. LOL Linda McCain Stansell >From: "Robert O. Delzell" <rjdelzell@jps.net> >Reply-To: rjdelzell@jps.net >To: TNBLOUNT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [TNBlount] Land records >Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 07:01:33 -0700 > >Dear Friends, > I am also interested in tracing land records in Blount County. The >County Clerks office in Maryville seems to have complete records, but my >special interest is in locating a land grant on the ground and I have >not been able to do this even after extensive search. So if anyone has >information about locating property on the ground, I would urge them to >post to everyone on this list. > Best wishes, Bob Delzell > > >==== TNBLOUNT Mailing List ==== >Problems??? mailto:dwaterworth@mstar2.net > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com