Indexing deed records US, Illinois, Monroe County—Deed Records, 1816–1900 [M3JJ-1BZ]
This batch is an index page with both mortgages and deeds. Do I just do the deeds and ignore the mortgage entries?
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/8f90acae-77ba-4612-9b33-6d6734bab95e
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I agree with @LarryClark43
Look at the second instruction under What to Index (despite the project title). It pretty much covers every type of transaction involving land.
Index all land registers and records with names of grantors, grantees, or other names.
Sometimes with these projects you’ll see the terms Mortgager and Mortgagee used in some documents, and explicit instructions to index the former parties in the Grantor field and the latter in the Grantee field.
in both deed and mortgage transactions , land is “granted” and the transaction recorded. Both types of transactions are related to the deed and land. With a deed as the “instrument” the land is granted outright (unencumbered). When the instrument is a mortgage, the land is conditionally granted - has a lien against it - with details expressed in the mortgage document. Both types of transactions involve “considerations” I.e., money or the promise of money (plus interest). When that lien/mortgage is paid off, another (deed) transaction will occur where the land is granted outright by finally signing over the deed to the Grantee.
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If you look at example #2 in the project instructions, it shows that they indexed the line listed as an agreement, not a deed. From that example I get the impression that you should index both deeds and mortgage entries.
Hope that helps.
I am by no means an expert on this project.
thank you for sharing the batch code
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