Register of Deeds

**NOTICE**

Effective February 6th, 2022

Our laws have changed as of February 6, 2022.

Please refer to the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s website, including any linked pages and FAQs, for complete information.

NOTICE FOR THOSE FILING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS WITH ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, AND E-NOTARIZED DOCUMENTS

For more information please visit the official website of Grafton County Registry of Deeds at https://www.nhdeeds.org/grafton-home/

Effective September 7, 2021

• The Registry Vault will open by appointment for RESEARCH ONLY.
• Appointments will be scheduled 8:00 am-3:30 pm. We will schedule appointments for 2 hours maximum to allow for more users.
• Four people allowed in the vault at a time please call the Registry at 603-787-6921 to schedule.

As of September 1, 2021 The Grafton County Registry of Deeds will no longer provide training to the public for our in house search program Laredo. Training videos can be found at 

https://www.fidlar.com/LaredoTrainingVideos.aspx

Recording Desk

The Grafton County Registry of Deeds’ recording desk is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:00AM-4:00PM for the purposes of obtaining a copy. We are open from 8:00AM-3:30PM for recording a document to allow time to properly record, index and verify the document before end of day.

Our Research Room

Only 3 people will be allowed in the Research Room at any time. Staff will continue to sanitize stations after public use. We strongly encourage wearing masks. Please try to limit your time to 2 hours to allow time for others. Please make use of the public search AVA from the convenience of your home computer. 

We strongly encourage you to continue using the following established practices:

• E-file documents electronically
• Mail documents through FedEx, UPS or US Postal Service
• Access Registry records using our website at NHDEEDS.ORG

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work together to keep everyone safe.
Kelley Jean Monahan Register

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The Registry of Deeds Office processes information as it relates to the buying and selling of real property. The recording of important documents is one of the oldest functions performed by government. The recording process is mandated and governed by the law of the State of New Hampshire. The data base of the Grafton County Registry of Deeds contains over 3 million images of documents, and over 23,000 images of subdivision plans and surveys. Only copies obtained from the official Registry of Deeds records are considered to be the official public record.

The official records maintained here date from 1773 to present day. At the present time, only 283 books of 4013 remain un-scanned to a digital record. Records from 1773-1879 and 1934 to present day are available digitally. Registry staff works daily to enter the remaining books.

Indexes are available from 1960 forward. In 1959 Register Charles “Bunny” Woods, the longest serving Register, made a difficult decision recognizing that from 1773 forward the information indexed was being done in a manner that would not serve our growing county. All businesses were recorded under B, all towns under T and all churches under C and so on. To correct this system error would require present staff to re-index 186 years of daily entry. We are near completion of the indexes of 1955-1959. To research the oldest record one must either know the book and page you are looking for or begin the search in the present and work their way back through time by book and page notation.

For copy requests please email us at graftoncopies@nhdeeds.com

NOTICE:

Each document page that is copied from the Grafton County Registry’s website without the established and posted compensation represents lost revenue that would have offset the annual county tax to the citizens who have invested in the database/library for 242 years. It is with these citizens in mind that we implement the below changes to our system.