Video Transcript:
What is a grantor-grantee index on real estate? This is Dave at TitleSearch.com. The documents which are a collection of liens, mortgages, and judgments are scattered throughout books in a county recording system. The way to find those documents is to first look at the grantor-grantee index. And what that will do, it will give you a list of document numbers for every piece of paper with the person's name on it. If the person owns the property name is Joe Smith, you put Joe Smith into the deed book and you find all of the other document numbers that has Joe Smith on it as a seller, a buyer, a lien holder, a debtor, whatever document has that name on it will show up on that list. That'll be on a couple of pages in that book. Then you write down all those numbers, and then you go to the actual deed books and pull the copies of those records. The grantor-grantee index is like a roadmap of where to find all of the documents which go with a particular name. Now, those probably aren't all the documents for the property. You probably have to look at other names, but at least it'll give you the documents for that one particular name and tell you what books to pull off the shelf to get them. If you have questions about doing research in the Grantor/Grantee index, you can reach us at our website at title search dot com.