{"id":4880,"date":"2016-05-24T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2016-05-24T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:18:26","slug":"recording-deeds-was-not-always-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/recording-deeds-was-not-always-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Deeds Was Not Always Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching deeds requires the researcher to look for a time after the actual document was drawn up and signed. Purchasers usually recorded deeds relatively promptly, but not always. If the courthouse was a distance or difficult to get to, it may have been years before the document was recorded. And sometimes people simply forgot to record a deed and did not realize it until the property was sold or the owner died. Don&#8217;t assume that your ancestor who lived in an area from 1830-1840 would have no deeds of sale recorded outside that time frame.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/recordingdates.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4881\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4881\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/recordingdates.jpg\" alt=\"recordingdates\" width=\"660\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/recordingdates.jpg 660w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/recordingdates-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/recordingdates-624x385.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching deeds requires the researcher to look for a time after the actual document was drawn up and signed. Purchasers usually recorded deeds relatively promptly, but not always. If the courthouse was a distance or difficult to get to, it may have been years before the document was recorded. And sometimes people simply forgot to [&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-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","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=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}