Deed Data Pool

20 Apr 2008

What's in the Pool

This deed pool contains deeds that have been donated by our customers. The purpose of the pool is to allow our customers to share the work of others. The deeds in the pool can be imported into DeedMapper where they can be viewed and edited. If you don't own DeedMapper, you can still examine the deed text (the wording of the deeds) with your word processor, but you will not be able to see the plats of the deeds.

If you'd like to contribute your own deed work, you can e-mail us your MBL file with a brief explanation of where you got the deed data. We'll copyright the material and give you full credit.

All files in the Deed Data Pool are copyright © 1995-2007 Direct Line Software.

• You may use the data and its derivative forms for personal, non-commercial purposes.
• This information is provided as is. No warrantee is implied.

Downloading Data Pool Files

The Index files (see below) give summary information about the deeds in the corresponding deed file, so we recommend you take a look at them first before downloading the deed file. Use your browser's Find command (under the Edit menu) to search for names of interest to you.

The deed files in the pool are found under the column labeled "Deed File", with names that end in .gz. They're compressed with the GZIP utility. This saves both space and download time.

Your browser might already be configured to automatically decompress the files. If you click on one of the compressed gz files you'll either see something that's readable, possibly with run-on sentences, or you'll see utter gibberish.

• If it's readable, use your browser's File>>Save command to save the page, but change the file name so that it ends in .TXT, a format that your wordprocessor will be able to view. (DeedMapper customers should rename the file to end in .MBL, the DeedMapper format.)
• If it's complete gibberish, you'll need to use GZIP to decompress the file after downloading. Go to www.winzip.com and download the free evaluation version of their popular WinZip program. Once it is installed you'll be able to view the deed files in your browser.

The deeds in a deed file may be 'placed', 'neighborhooded', or 'unplaced', according to the information in the rightmost column. Placed deeds are well fit together and located with some degree of accuracy on a map. Neighborhooded deeds have been grouped into some number of neighborhoods. Unplaced deeds have not been moved or fitted together in any way. (In DeedMapper these may appear as a jumble of parcels stacked one on top of another.)

Kentucky

Mississippi

New York

North Carolina

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

Virginia - (Note: Patents and Grants are available on-line)

West Virginia - (Note: Patents and Grants are available on-line)