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US, New York, Tompkins—Indexes to Land Records, 1816–1860 [Part B]

Kate Thornley
Kate Thornley ✭
August 3, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

Hello! In my batch I am working on now, the "mortgagor" and "mortgagee" columns appear as:

Mortgagor----Mortgagee | Mortgagee----Mortgagor


as the headings on each page. I am noticing that all of the left hand names start with "S" regardless of whether or not it's a mortgagee or mortgagor. Do you think the recorder wrote the names in the same format as each other, not as the column headings? (So they wrote the mortgagor in the first column and the mortgagee in the second column every time even though the printed headings indicate otherwise?) Hopefully I made that make sense!


I am recording them under what matches the column headings printed in the book, but as I started the second page I thought maybe I shouldn't be doing that. This is the first batch of this specific project I have worked on, but the grantee/grantor ones I have done in the past are listed based on the first letter of the last name of the Grantors every time, so maybe this project is similar? Thanks for any input!


<3 Kate

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  • erutherford
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    August 3, 2023 Answer ✓

    You'll index them as what is recorded in the book. The first half of the page is Mortgagor/Mortgagee. The second half is Mortgagee/Mortgagor. We don't speculator as to why the recorder did what they did. It could have been to match the letter of the alphabet, but then again, it could have been for 50 other reasons.

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  • Kate Thornley
    Kate Thornley ✭
    August 4, 2023

    Thank you very much! I appreciate you! I was thinking that was right because many things say not to assume anything about what is written, just record it. I had to be positive. :) Thanks again!

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