Question about entering a deed in events.
When entering a deed in events, do you use the date of the deed was signed or the date when the sale was registered? Any suggestions would be helpful.
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The few deeds I have entered are entered by the date it was signed. I figured I had to pick a date so that was the one I went with and then just stuck with it whenever I entered any other ones.
ReplyDeleteBecause many people never got around to registering deeds and even if they did it was often months or years later., the choice for a deed or property transfer should be the date it was signed since it was effective once it was signed. Registering a deed only served to protect the new owner from an unscrupulous person who might try selling the property over and over again. The courthouse was frequently not convenient to get to in an age where hopping in the family car for easy travel was not an option [today your closing company handles that process]. The same was true for filing of marriages - they may have been filed relatively quickly and they may not have been.
ReplyDeleteI actually record both dates. For example, in the detail information under "Record Date" I will put, "9 Aug 1834, recorded 16 Aug 1834". This might not be correct or overkill, but both dates give important information. The recorded date leads me or others back to the record and the signed date is important in a person's timeline.
ReplyDeleteThank you ladies. Your responses have been helpful. I realize that not all people registered their deeds but the few deeds I have found have been under the registered date so I wanted that for citation purposes. I also wanted to keep the deed date for the timeline. I didn't think about using both dates in the record date. I like that. I guess you could also record the information twice, once using the deed date and the other using the recorded date. But that may be redundant.
ReplyDeleteTonya Ferguson There's nothing to stop you from creating a new event called either Deed Registered or Deed Signed, or whatever suits you, and enter the extra date there. You can also edit the standard Legacy event names to something that suits you also. Just another approach to consider.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed. I did decide to separate them into two entries.
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