Frederick County Land Record Abstracts

Land Records have always been one of my favorite Genealogy Resources, and the spur for abstracting (and reading) all of these records has been to find some record of an elusive ancestor named Leonard Barnes who married Nancy Price in Frederick County, on 11 November 1790. Liber B was originally published in January 1995.  The second edition is dated 2003 - still self-published under GenLaw Resources.

I am pleased to announce that  a new volume is at the publisher, Colonial Roots, and will soon be out.  It covers Frederick county from 1771-1773, as recorded in Libers P, S, T and U, which together contained 1974 folio pages -- compared to Liber J (no I)  1401 folio pages in one very large volume, and was completed in November 1996.  The records in Liber J covered deeds from 1763to 1765, and supersedeas records from 1764-1767.  It has recently been reprinted by Colonial Roots.



Working on Land Record Abstracts has also led to the occasional speaking engagements -- on - what else - Land Records.  I will be one of the presenters at the next Maryland Genealogical Society Back to the Basics Work Shop on Court Records, Saturday 25 June 2011.  My topic "WHY LAND RECORDS" -- I hope I can illustrate some good reasons on this blog before then, that may become part of the presentation.  To find out more information about the workshop, the registration form and information is available at http://www.mdgensoc.org/