{"id":17931,"date":"2024-04-04T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17931"},"modified":"2024-04-04T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:53:00","slug":"where-theres-a-will-there-may-be-no-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/where-theres-a-will-there-may-be-no-deed\/","title":{"rendered":"Where There&#8217;s a Will There May Be No Deed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a while back&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My relative purchased a farm in the late 1860s. It still owned by a descendant today. The last deed to the property recorded in the local recorder\u2019s office is that deed of purchase in the 1860s. There are no other deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s because every transfer after that time has been through a bequest in a will when the current owner died\u2013in 1877, 1939, and 1969. The wills served to transfer title. There\u2019s no missing deeds, it\u2019s just that at the time the will served as the \u201cdeed\u201d because it transferred title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(This tip is partially due to a reader\u2019s comment on an earlier tip. Thanks!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8230; My relative purchased a farm in the late 1860s. It still owned by a descendant today. The last deed to the property recorded in the local recorder\u2019s office is that deed of purchase in the 1860s. There are no other deeds. That\u2019s because every transfer after that time has been through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931","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=17931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}