Listers, I wanted to take just a moment to share my experience of looking for land transactions. Back some time ago, I found a book in the library entitled "The Fairfax Proprietary" by Josiah Look Dickinson. To my suprise, I found an ancestor listed as having a lease in Fauquier County in 1793. The book and page number were also given so I was able to order microfilm. The lease was very detailed..several pages...and included the names of the ancestor's brother and sister who would in turn be responsible for paying the rent if they older brother died. These leases were given numbers and a map was provided with the book to show the location of each numbered lease. The map did not survive with the particular copy of the book in our library. A friend checked at his library and they did have a copy that still had the map included. A treasure to say the least!! This particular transaction was later found in "land record" indices for that same time frame. One could have eventually located the land record without Dickinson's book, but we may have never known about the map. "Land records" can contain very good information at times and can be well worth the time and effort to order the film. Glenda