Help request: US, New York, Westchester—Index to Land Records, Grantors [Part D]
If there is a person and an organization combined in the Grantor column, do we list them as one entry or two?
Example: Berger Martin S with Robert Martin Associates on the top of the right side. Should I combine both into one entry? Are we allowed to list an organization and a person as grantors in the same entry?
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Best Answer
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No, don't combine them. I would list those two Grantors in the Grantor fields in two separate entries for the same Grantee (Consolidated Edison Co of N. Y. Inc). This action is per the "What to Remember About This Project" section (see the citation below). Likewise, for any other transaction using those curly brackets that group together multiple Grantors with one transaction. Apply this instruction whether the multiple Grantors are all persons, all Corporations, or a mixture of the two types.
You may already know this, but I'll mention it for the record and those who don't. Occasionally you'll see multiple Grantees and multiple Grantors for one transaction, and you would do one entree for each Grantor-Grantee pair, so 3 Grantors and 2 Grantees for one transaction would yield 3x2=6 separate entries. On some of these Land projects, we don't index corporations or organizations, but on this one, we do, and they even have their own Grantor and Grantee fields.
Here is the pertinent citation mentioned above from What To Remember About This Project:
- If multiple grantees or grantors were listed for a single transaction, index information about each one using separate entries in the data entry area.
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