In a typical county in the United States, the index is kept by an official known as the County Recorder (or the Recorder of Deeds). Transfers are not necessarily listed in strict alphabetical order, but are often placed chronologically in a letter index corresponding to the first letter of the party's last name.
In a typical county in the United States, the record of property transfers is kept by an official known as the County Recorder (or the Recorder of Deeds). Transfers are not always listed alphabetically, but often arranged chronologically based on the first letter of the person's last name.