Originally published 9 November 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0I volunteer at the Nashua Historical Society and recently I’ve received two requests from residents for information about the old homes they live in.\u00a0 NHS has a policy of telling these people to go look for the information themselves but I’ve found it only takes a few minutes to look up the homes online.
I start by going to the town’s website where they list the properties, who owns them, tax assessments, etc. which I can find using the address.\u00a0 Then I head over to the county website and search their online records.\u00a0 They have a couple of search programs that cost money, but they also have a free search system. \u00a0\u00a0
By entering the owner’s name, I find the deed which lists the Book and Page number of the previous Deed.\u00a0 Now the search gets easier, I enter the Book and Page in the search.\u00a0 While the records are indexed back to 1961, the images for my county go back to 1879.\u00a0 Then I continue to follow the Book and Page numbers and once I get past 1879, I view the images at FamilySearch.org
And there is a surprising amount of family information.\u00a0 For example, as I search the property I live on, there is a deed that lists the grantor [deleted for privacy reasons] as “the daughter and residuary legatee under the Will of George K. Mitchell…”\u00a0 In the same deed it says “Property of George K. and Florence G. Mitchell…”\u00a0
A search for George K. Mitchell turns up another deed where “And we, George K. Mitchell, [daughter], and [deleted for privacy reasons], husband of [daughter]…”\u00a0 Another deed mentions “inherited by the Grantor and [daughter] from the Estate of Florence G. Mitchell…” and mentions the Probate number.\u00a0 And then a priceless Affidavit where George K. Mitchell states “That Marguerite M. Ouellette, mother of Florence G. Mitchell, Norman H. Ouellette, and Robert A. Ouellette, was a widow….”\u00a0 Marguerite M. Ouellette bought the property with her husband Albert J. Ouellette from the Heath brothers who inherited it from their mother Bertha L. R. Heath, who inherited it in conjunction with Horatio A. Robinson from Allen Robinson.\u00a0 And the wives of the Heath brothers signed off on the deal.
Deeds can be a treasure trove of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published 9 November 2019. \u00a0I volunteer at the Nashua Historical Society and recently I’ve received two requests from residents for information about the old homes they live in.\u00a0 NHS has a policy of telling these people to go look for the information themselves but I’ve found it only takes a few minutes to look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,12,10],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deed","tag-familysearch","tag-genealogy","cat-1-id"],"yoast_head":"\n