In a message dated 6/6/01 6:39:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, TNRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > X-Message: #4 > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:51:24 EDT > From: Twerp1962@aol.com > To: TNRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <f9.b05782d.284fc79c@aol.com> > Subject: [TNRUTHER] Lookups in Rutherford County > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello, > > I am an out-of-stater and was wondering if anyone knows of someone in the > Rutherford County area that will perform lookups? I expect to pay a fee. > I'm not asking for a freebie. > > I noted on the Rutherford County Web Page there is a Deed Index, however > the > kind individuals who are posting that info, haven't made it to the letters > that I need yet. :) > > If someone knows of someone, please let me know. > > Thank you > > ______________________________ > > Why don't you order the deed indexes for Rutherford Co? Very inexpensive. Just go to your nearest Latter Day Saints that has attached, a Family History Center. Probably could rent the grantor and grantee microfilm rolls for about $3.25 each for the years you are seeking. Each should cover 50 years or more and provide you with all the deeds yours every made when buying property and when selling it. The INDEX will give the exact names of each grantee or grantor, the date each deed recorded, what kind of deed (and sometimes how many acres and what district) and the volume and page where the entire original deed is recorded (vlume and page). The volunteer at LDS will help you look up the appropriate order number for these deed indexes. If you find some on the index that is of interest, you can then turn around and order the microfilm which has that particular deed on it. You can copy from microfilm to paper and the results are excellent, as a rule. You can do the same with marriages, etc. My family came to Rutherford Co in 1808 and remained there thru about 3 generations during which time they intermarried with others. I am doing a book on all of these and needed to see original old courthouse volumes OFTEN. So I began ordering (renting) the exactly duplicates of those old volumes, microfilmed page by page by LDS...and placing same on indefinite loan, at an LDS FHC near my home. Cost me $3.25 per roll (per old courthouse volume)...and I've been doing this for past 6 years. Now have about 2/3rd of the Rutherford Co, Tn courthouse for years 1808-1890 near my home in Texas. But, only worth that to me because I am related to so many families from that county, and researching them in one place for nearly 100 years. If your family only stayed there a brief time, then it probably wont be worth it to you. There are LDS Family History centers in almost every town in the U. S. Good luck. Joyce