Grantors vs. Grantees
My mind likes to play games with me and I forget things that used to so common to know.
I've assumed that the grantors were the ones giving and the grantees were the ones receiving.
I'm now finding documents that are saying "to" and "from" where all the documents I've been indexing says "Grantors" first then "Grantees" second. If I'm corrected (as stated above), then the "From" is the Grantor and the "To" is the Grantee.🤔
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That is correct. The Grantee would be to and the Grantor would be from.
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As @Dave Morris6 said, the Grantee would be to, and the Grantor would be from.
The confusion can arise because some projects are organized/sorted by the Grantee and others by Grantor. So the From and To are not in a "natural" place (from - Grantor - on the left and to - Grantee - on the right). For example, this batch below is from US, New York, North Country—Index to Land Records, Grantees, 1630–1975. The word Grantees in the title indicates that the records are sorted by Grantee, so they appear, sorted alphabetically, on the left typically. This office probably had another set of ledgers with Grantors (from) on the left and Grantees (to) on the right - the more "natural" order (except maybe for left-handed folks).
When we've had projects of this type in the past, some Grantor-organized and some Grantee-organized co-existing in the list of available ones, a common mistake Reviewers would encounter at the start of a new project was Indexers swapping the two types of fields until the word got out to the Indexers to be extra careful.
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Thank you both so much!
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You're welcome.
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You're welcome.
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