There are a couple of computer programs on the market for between $100 to $200 which will plot a metes and bounds type of tract. Is that what you are using, Bill, or are you doing it by hand? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Rexroad" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:58 AM Subject: [WVPENDLE] Land (cont'd) > Susan - > > Sorry folks. I accidentally hit the send button before I had finished. > Susan, if you have a copy of the deed and are not familiar with plotting > metes and bounds, I will plot it for you. Let me know if you want me to > do this (no charge) and I will give you my mailing address. If you > don't have a copy of the deed, I suggest you obtain one from the > courthouse of whatever county the land was in at the time of the > transaction. > > Bill Rexroad > Hutchinson, Kansas > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > Genealogy without documentation is mythology! > >
I hate to be a Cassandra, but having done some of this land plotting, etc. it just can't be done so easily. Especially if the land has been sold, creeks have moved, old roads and turnpikes are gone, trees have been cut down, etc. etc. I have one piece I am tracking, and so far nothing has worked. It folded into a larger tract and pickiing out that bit is proving to be a mess. Even the old country roads have moved for various reasons. My one big success, I started with an 1812 deed and tracked thru owner after owner, moving roads, etc. I tracked the owners beside my ancestor also and that finally cracked the nut with a deed of a neighbor in 1923. I stood out in the area where the land had to be and looked and tried to get land marks mentioned in these deeds to fit. That didn't work either. When the later roads were built all kinds of landmarks got changed, and various floods over the years didn't help a lot either. We used one of those plotting programs and his land came out as about a mile long and 10 feet wide. Obviously ridiculous. Again, it takes time, don't be discouraged, and don't forget to check the neighbors. Jean