Posts in December 18, 2017

County record books usually do not have actual signatures on deeds and other items. Their copies are record copies and most of them are transcriptions of the original records–especially in the days before photoreproduction was developed. One exception in some locations are in mortgage records. The record copy of this 1878 mortgage contains transcriptions of the mortgagors. The holder of the note, John Ufkes in this case, signed a release of the mortgage right in the spine of the book. A neat place to get a signature. And before you think John Ufkes was a banker or some type of well-to-do…he loaned money to his sister and her husband. They paid him back a year later, likely shortly before he signed the release on 29 October 1879. Upload […]