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document
which
records
that
the
ownership of a parcel of land was
transferred from one party to another. A
copy of a deed is recorded in the county
or town wherein the land is located, even
though the sale of the land may have
taken place somewhere else. The deed
certificate then acts as the title to
property in the possession of the buyer.
There are several types of deeds, such as
Warranty Deeds, Trust Deeds, or Quit
Claim Deeds, all of which may be used to
transfer
or
relinquish a claim
to property.
Grantor...
the party selling
or
relinquishing
land.
Grantee... the party buying or being
granted land.
Grantor/Grantee Index... the index to
private land exchanges. In some counties
it may be called the Direct (Grantor)
Index and the Indirect (Grantee) Index.
Or, it may be called the Index to Real
Estate Conveyances. The format of the
index in virtually all counties of the
United States is the same. It is a general
alphabetized list of the sellers of land,
another for the buyers of land. A
Grantor/Grantee index is a valuable
genealogical resource. Before 1850, for
example, a Grantor/Grantee Index is a
better list of the residents of a county
than a heads-of-households census for
the same county.
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BOOKS FOR SALE
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A NEW BOOK REPRINT
This is your opportunity to own another great Sioux County History Book!
This is an entirely different book from the Story of Sioux County by Charles Dyke. (They are not duplicates but compliment each
other.)
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The book ‘Siouxland: A History of Sioux County Iowa’ was first published in 1983 by author, G. Nelson Nieuwenhuis. He was a local life
long resident of Sioux County and a History Professor at Northwestern College in Orange City.
The prospective in this book is quite different from the Story of Sioux County done by Charles Dyke in 1942. (still available from our Society)
This book has a lot of accurate historical details related in top quality text. It contains many pictures, maps and has an every name index.
The books starts with Sioux County far back into history.
Page 4 states…Large tusks of mastadons have been uncovered in Sioux County
gravel pits….their remains carried here by glaciers and flood waters. From the contents heading you will see the tremendous research that
went into this book, among the contents headings are:
Chapter 1
– Geological Foundations – The prairie setting
Chapter 2
– The Indians of Sioux land
Chapters 4-6 Related larger local area history
Chapter 7 - The Organization of Sioux County
Chapter 8 - Calliope (The first town and county seat in Sioux County)
Chapters 9 and 10 - Organization of Townships Part I and II
Chapter 11
– The English Come to West Sioux
Chapter 12 - Orange City
Chapter 13
– Hospers – Newkirk
Chapter 14
– Towns Along the Milwaukee (railroad)
Chapter 15
– Sioux Center
Chapter 16 - Towns Along the Northwestern (railroad)
Chapter 17
– The Twentieth Century
Chapter 18 - The Troubled Twenties
Chapter 19
– The Turmoil of the Thirties
Chapter 20
– World War II
Chapter 21
– Progress and Prosperity – The 1950s
Chapter 22
– Churches and Christian Education
Chapter 23
– Public Schools
Chapter 24
– Professional Progress
Chapter 25
– Civil Servants
Rest of titles are- Sum and Substance, Notes, Index, and Bibliography, and every name index. .
Book is a large 8 1/2 “ by 11”, 360 page hard bound book, with pictures, maps and indexes.
Prepublish price is $45.00 plus $3.50 for postage/hldg
Totaling………$48.50 USA
After about a May 2008 completion price will be $50. plus 3.50 ……..$53.50 USA
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