Always read those “aside” comments that occasionally get made in records. Clerks and records officials don’t add them because they are bored. There is usually a reason and working to determine that reason could lead to additional discoveries.
The example in the illustration indicated that the administrator of an estate in Illinois in 1903 wasn’t certain what type of title the deceased held in a certain piece of property, but that he believed it to be a fee-simple title. That uncertainty suggests I look into that piece of real estate and how the deceased came to acquire it. There could be a story there.
And if I don’t know what a fee-simple title is I need to look up that detail as well.
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