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Visualizing chain of title over time
Looking for ideas and best practices on how to present or visualize a complicated chain of title to landowners.
Is there a way (Carlson Intellicad shop here) to almost animate to show the changes/transfers over time?
Parcels have been subdivided and recombined over multiple generations starting in the early 1800s, including a court house steps distress sale to a lumber company and a repurchase from the lumber company by a later generation of the same family. Small pieces have been sold off. No actual legal descriptions with numbers (metes and bounds state) since the 1880s, subsequent deeds and wills refer back to previous deeds. Mostly very rural woods and almost mountainous terrain, at least for the East Coast.
I’m working with my boss on this complicated chain of title. He’s the license, I’m the courthouse researcher and field guy. He did all the hard thinking, and he plotted up all the deeds I found and documented the chain with references.
For various reasons I’ll probably end up explaining it to the landowner. Flipping through CAD layers on a screen isn’t going to work. Looking at stacks of greyish scans of 1850 cursive deeds isn’t going to work either. I almost want to print our CAD plots out on mylar every time there was a title transfer and overlay them chronologically. But that’s so 1990 🙂
I’m thinking of perhaps pasting CAD plots into Powerpoint?
- This discussion was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by toeknee.
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