Step 3:  Identify Records missing from Com Index

One cardinal rule of working with records is that the original sequence 
of materials and infomration should be maintained.  However, nothing 
within that principle prohibits researchers from rearranging elements in 
a "working copy" of a database printout, in order to view the material 
From a different perspective.  With the land entries from the South 
Carolina COM Index, it is a very helpful exercise to sort the database 
entries into hypothetical tracts-bearing in mind that each tract should 
be represented by at least three documents and possibly a foruth:  i.e. 
1, a petition, 2, a plat, 3, a grant, adn possibly 4, a memorial.

This reassembly of the data spotlights ...records that absolutely should 
exist but are not in the database: .... Locating the petitions in the 
council journals should be possible-once a ocpy of each original plat is 
obtained from the archives.




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