This particular situation was in reference to marriage bonds, not deeds.
The deed records issue is different, and I am aware of an issue in
this particular county concerning access to copies of deeds.
Fact is, most counties have now transferred both their original
marriage bonds, as well as many of their old bound deed books to the
State Archives for safekeeping and protection of the old paper
documents and books.
However, because each county's office of Register of Deeds is charged
with keeping and providing access to the county's records -
microfilms (which increasingly are being converted to digital
imaging) are generally kept AT the county office. There are major
issues involved here, with the notion of sending people to Raleigh
every time they need to look up a deed, marriage or other record
which the RofD is legally bound to keep and provide access to.
-Sandy
On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Diane L Richard wrote:
Hi Nola,
That very much depends ... I regularly request copies of original
deeds from
the local register of deeds (I have recently done so for Wilkes,
Bladen and
Duplin) -- the archives has the microfilms of county deeds and few
original
deeds (obviously this is county specific -- e.g. Wake county does
have some
of it's original deeds at the archives) and I request a copy from
the county
when the microfilm version is so horrible as to be illegible!
So, I think it's another case (within NC) that different counties have
handled the archiving of their documents differently -- some have
kept few
originals and they sent them along to Raleigh and some have kept
many and
only sent a few to Raleigh. This holds for original wills versus
will books
also.
I think it was New Hanover county who I contacted recently which
has kept
their old will books -- Raleigh only has the first 2 and the county
has the
rest of the originals!
Diane :-)
Wake County GenWeb CC
dianelrichard(a)mosaicrpm.com
919-231-8137
fax: 919-255-9528
www.mosaicrpm.com/Genealogy
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[mailto:ncgenweb-discuss-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nola Duffy
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:06 PM
To: ncgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [NCGENWEB-DISCUSS] [NCGENWEB] How many CCs are
charging fees?
Just to clarify a point, I have again confirmed the original
documents are not available via the Register of Deeds. The
only source is the Archives. By repeating the statement
that the county will provide copies for $.25 will only cause
a one person offer to be flooded with requests. It would
also be a disservice is someone made the effort to travel to
the county to make copies since they are not there.
Nola
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