Platting Metes and Bounds Properties

Platting Metes and Bounds Properties
Presenter: Diana Crisman Smith
Duration: 30 minutes

About this virtual conference class:
Early land records used indiscriminate survey systems — based on landmarks such as trees, rocks and rivers — that can befuddle even expert genealogists. We'll offer help to plat ancestral properties described using metes and bounds.

What you'll learn:

• Basic terminology used in platting property described by metes and bounds (also known as "indiscriminate survey")
• Places that use the metes and bounds system
• Steps to plat ancestral properties described by metes and bounds
• Demonstration of taking data from handwritten deed and plotting it on a map