Deed in Forsyth County, North Carolina

In North Carolina, deeds and other real property documents are recorded by the county Register of Deeds. A recorded conveyance is effective against lien creditors and purchasers only from the time of its registration (G.S. 47-18), so the order of recording decides priority.

The Forsyth County Register of Deeds says documents were not officially recorded in the county until 1913 (a few instruments date from 1849) and that computerized indexes began in 1965. The index records the year only for documents before 1997.

The Register's office says information about divorce decrees, estates, foreclosures, judgments, liens, wills and paternity is held by the Clerk of Superior Court; judgments are docketed there, not with the Register of Deeds (G.S. 1-234).

The last recorded deed names the owner of record and how they hold title; a title search follows the chain of deeds back from it.

Yes. The Forsyth County report covers: Owner, situs address and the vesting deed's book and page from the county tax parcel records; The vesting deed, and deeds, deeds of trust, satisfactions, assignments, substitutions of trustee and foreclosure notices recorded with the Register of Deeds.