Researching Your House

Researching the History of Your House

General  

• Architecture of the [South Shore] Estuary (Long Island Traditions)
• House & Building Histories (Cyndi's List)
• House Styles (About.com)
• Preservation Briefs (U.S.  National Park Service) 

Suffolk County (N.Y.)-Specific

• Researching Your House (Patchogue-Medford Library) -- resources at Patchogue-Medford Library, nearby, and further afield 
• Researching the History of Your House (Suffolk County.  Clerk's Office.  Historic Documents Library) - a Suffolk County, NY focus
• Researching the History of Your House [key points and practical advice given at a lecture, by Sharon Pullen, Suffolk County [N.Y.] Archivist, held at South Country Public Library] (Bellport.com.  The Village News.  At Home)
• Torrens (Suffolk County Clerk's Office) - a former system of alternative title registration, when a thorough title search failed to locate clear essential evidence of transfers, it was sometimes officially o.k.'d and registered to permit a transfer (though it impiled incomplete or missing information)