In my previous role, I would request a copy of the latest parcels for our local area, in this case, Saratoga County, NY, and label it with the year. This way if we were interested in historic changes we would have all the *recent* annual changes on hand and available. 

When I used to work for the County of Rensselaer, around 2001, all the parcel updates were done on mylar by hand. Each year all the mylars would be scanned and printed out as a parcel map book as the annual archive. We went through a digital conversion shortly thereafter, so for a while the updates were done on the mylar, and then digitized using a digitizing tablet and puck, as both systems were being maintained. Ultimately we eventually went to heads up digitizing.

I am sure different municipalities are maintaining this historic data in different formats - some in paper record, others may have scanned in historic parcel map books and may have this information in digital format. 

If you are just working on capturing the lot lines for the university, I would start gathering whatever sources you can get your hands on, paper or digital, get them into digital format and build your archive to tell the story of the changes.

It may take some work, but the earliest records are likely on historic maps, which could be in the university library, with facilities, in a public library special collection, or in a municipal office in a map drawer some where. Start by making some phone calls, ask what they have in digital format and for a copy, and look at whats in paper format and determine if you need to scan it or if you might be able to request that it be scanned. 300 dpi tiff is a standard for historic maps. 

Definitely start with phone calls, and follow up with scheduling visits. Get a decent hard drive :)

Alex




On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Barbara Archibald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Have you tried Parcel fabric?  

I use it working w/ PLSS but it should be able to work w/ historic information.  



Barbara

Barbara J. McKay Archibald MGIS, MA
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Subject: Historic Parcels
 

I don’t have much experience with cadastral/parcel work, at least not in many many years, so I wanted to ask some folks if they’ve done something like this before.  We’ve gotten several requests for “historic” property lines for the university.  Basically who owned what and where through time.  We have plenty of old property maps that would get us pretty far in terms of a dataset, I just can’t wrap my head around all the changes, subdivisions, land bought and sold since 1893 to today.  Has anyone else tackled such a thing?

 

Sam

 

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