Thanks for all your responses. Here's how I've seen TR used: In the grantee & grantor indexes here are some examples: Gibson, Robert TR Gregory, Sarah E. By TR Galligher, P.H. et al By TR Gibson, Stanley & Wf By TR Gibson, George S. By TR Miller, Samuel A. TR ETAL Stump, Wilbur TR The TR is typed into the index with the original text. It wasn't added later. If the TR stands for trustee, what would that mean? Would that make the land deed a trust deed? I'm not that knowledgable about such things, but I believe a trust deed is land sold to a 2nd party who makes payments on the land to the 1st party and the 1st party holds the land in his name as collateral until the land is paid for. Sort of like owner financing. Is that correct? I don't yet have copies of any of the actual deeds that are specified with the TR in the index. ---------------------- One land deed I have a copy of, doesn't have mention of TR in the index, but the top of the deed looks like this: A.M. Gregory to 4 A. Bakers Fk. of Elk 2 Mi. Charleston Dist. Harry A. Gregory Trd. Now I don't know if this "Trd." has anything at all to do with the TR in the indexes. Like I mentioned, in the index where the Bakers Fork land is listed, there's no TR or Trd. They might be unrelated. Also in the Bakers Fork land deed I thought, originally, that the "Trd." stood for trade, but in the deed it says "...Witnesseth that for and in consideration of Twenty Dollars Paid in hand..." So it does appear to be a cash transaction and not a trade. ---------------------- One more thing. In the grantee and grantor indexes, I've also seen "BY COMR" or "BY SPL COMR": Galligher, P.H. ETAL BY COMR Gregory, Mary Jane BY COMR Courtney, John ET AL BY SPL COMR Does this "COMR" have anything to do with "TR"? What does it mean? Thanks again for your help. I knew you guys would come through for me. The other list didn't even touch it. I guess it's not as straight forward of an abbreviation as I thought it was. -- Cara Showers Anchorage, Alaska cara@dcdesign.com

COMR = Commissioner SPL COMR= Special Commissioner TR = Trustee Trd. = Registered Trustee?

Think of trustee as a person to whom another's property is entrusted.

Be careful; while such abbreviations frequently appear in indices or clerks' notes, I have rarely seen an original deed where a grantee's trust identity was written with the initials rather than the complete word, "trustee." That does not mean it did not happen, however I would suggest that if those initials do appear in the actual deeds, then such was but a habit of THAT clerk, lawyer or registrar to so abbreviate in the books of recordations, and should not be considered as wide-spread practice. Paul