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NOTICE:
Recorded and/or filed documents and ALL information contained within those instruments become
the permanent public record and are available for public viewing and/or purchase.
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The following are non-legal definitions of terms
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| Grantor/
Grantee Index |
This
is the official index of the statewide recording system database
in alphabetical format. Grantor and Grantee names appearing
on documents must be input into the index exactly as they appear
on the document, consequently variations of names may exist.
Searches may be performed within the statewide computer index
based on district or statewide, as well as by name, legal description,
date, book/page number, serial number or document type. |
| Index
Code |
As
you review the index and pull up individual names or legal descriptions,
you will notice different index codes for a variety of documents.
These index codes help to identify specific types of documents.
For example: LI signifies Lien documents; M
refers to Mortgages, Deeds of Trusts and related document types;
D refers to conveyance documents such as Quit
Claim Deeds, Warranty Deeds, Trust Deeds; MI
refers to mining documents; MS refers to Miscellaneous
type documents (documents which do not fall in to one of the
other categories); PA for Power of Attorneys;
FS for Financing Statements. |
| Legal
Description |
This
is the real estate property description which is reflected as
Lot, Block, Subdivision name, plat number, Survey number, or
Meridian, Township, Range, Section (MTRS). |
| Location
Index |
Index
based on the real estate property description such as: Lot,
Block, Subdivision name, plat number, U.S. Land Survey Number;
MTRS (Meridian, Township, Range, Section); Alaska State Land
Survey Number; The location index with the State Recorder’s
Office was not an official index prior to July 1996 and is provided
as a courtesy index for our users. Legal descriptions may be
researched by Plat Number, Subdivision Name, Survey Number,
MTRS (Meridian, Township, Range Section). |
| Original
Book Records |
Prior
to establishing the statewide computerized database, recordings
were logged into large, bound books in alphabetical order according
to Grantor and Grantee names. These books constitute the original
book records of each recording district in the state. |
| Recording
Districts |
Unlike
other states, Alaska is broken up into 34 recording districts
which are centrally administered under a State Recorder. All
recording districts use the same acceptance criteria, fee schedule,
etc., for accepting documents into the public record. |
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