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The Franciscan Cadastre of 1817, the French cadastre, the Florentine catasto of 1427, and the parish registers — why European house history reaches back further than American, and what those records actually let you find.
May 25, 2026 · 4 min read
Grantor and grantee, consideration, mortgages and satisfactions, the gaps that mean an inheritance — a guide to reading a chain of title like a historian, and an honest account of what it can and can't tell you.
May 23, 2026 · 4 min read
Read enough deeds, censuses, and maps across a single block and the big forces of American history — immigration, the streetcar, redlining, white flight, gentrification — stop being abstractions. Here's what the records show, and how to read them honestly.
May 20, 2026 · 4 min read