{"id":6815,"date":"2017-06-20T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2017-06-20T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:02:10","slug":"are-wills-replacing-the-deeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/are-wills-replacing-the-deeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Wills Replacing the Deeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<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&#8217;s office is that deed of purchase in the 1860s. There are no other deeds.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because every transfer after that time has been through a bequest in a will when the current owner died&#8211;in 1877, 1939, and 1969. The wills served to transfer title. There&#8217;s no missing deeds, it&#8217;s just that at the time the will served as the &#8220;deed&#8221; because it transferred title.<\/p>\n<p>(This tip is partially due to a reader&#8217;s comment on an earlier tip. Thanks!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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&#8217;s office is that deed of purchase in the 1860s. There are no other deeds. That&#8217;s because every transfer after that time has been through a bequest in a [&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-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}