Dear Grainger County researchers. Whenever I get a chance to access Grainger County materials (out here I am mostly dependent on film) I like to write to the list and tell everybody what can be found in the record books. As most of you know records were entered in odd places and sometimes where one would least expect to find a particular record. The Grainger County deed book for the years 1865-1869 contains union soldiers' discharge papers. I have no idea why these records were entered in the deed books. They are not entered at the end as if they were using available paper, but are interspersed among the deeds. I copied these as I had time so I could have some examples to send to the list. (I was only able to get to St. Joe for one day). I probably should have renewed the film (the nice lady at the FHC kept it much longer than the period that |I had rented it for and kept calling to see if I was going to be able to make it back to St. Joe. I finally told her to send the film back since I had new film coming. Anyway I have transcribed some examples and will be sending them to the list either this evening or tomorrow. (Hopefully) Gail

Gail, are you talking about St. Joseph Missouri? Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Roorda" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger County Deed Books Volumrs 16-17 > Dear Grainger County researchers. > > Whenever I get a chance to access Grainger County materials (out here I am > mostly dependent on film) I like to write to the list and tell everybody > what can be found in the record books. As most of you know records were > entered in odd places and sometimes where one would least expect to find a > particular record. > > The Grainger County deed book for the years 1865-1869 contains union > soldiers' discharge papers. I have no idea why these records were entered > in the deed books. They are not entered at the end as if they were using > available paper, but are interspersed among the deeds. > > I copied these as I had time so I could have some examples to send to the > list. (I was only able to get to St. Joe for one day). I probably should > have renewed the film (the nice lady at the FHC kept it much longer than the > period that |I had rented it for and kept calling to see if I was going to > be able to make it back to St. Joe. I finally told her to send the film > back since I had new film coming. > > Anyway I have transcribed some examples and will be sending them to the list > either this evening or tomorrow. (Hopefully) > > Gail > > > ==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to [email protected] > >