{"id":11401,"date":"2020-03-09T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:47:30","slug":"when-the-grantors-are-not-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/09\/when-the-grantors-are-not-people\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Grantors are not &#8220;People&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The grantor (seller) on a deed may not be a &#8220;person&#8221; but rather someone acting in an official legal or capacity. I could not find one ancestor&#8217;s deed &#8220;selling&#8221; his farm because it was transferred on a deed executed by the local judge after a court action involving his estate. The judge was the grantor, not the ancestor and not his children. If your ancestor went through a a foreclosure or a sale of property for back taxes, the court or the local sheriff may have been the grantor on the deed transferring property from your relative&#8217;s ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you cannot find a deed of sale, look for a court action involving your ancestor or his estate.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grantor (seller) on a deed may not be a &#8220;person&#8221; but rather someone acting in an official legal or capacity. I could not find one ancestor&#8217;s deed &#8220;selling&#8221; his farm because it was transferred on a deed executed by the local judge after a court action involving his estate. The judge was the grantor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}