This line of succession most often consists of wives succeeding husbands, sons succeeding fathers, sons succeeding mothers. The succession dates often mark some significant event, such as a retirement, a death, a marriage, a serious illness, emigration. These leads can then be pursued in other record compilations, such as the registers of births, deaths and marriages. These books also indicate the division, contraction and expansion of holdings which often mark the beginning of family feuds. They were available immediately to callers but could also be ordered by post.
Postal requests take a few weeks to service.
However, due to the poor condition of the valuation maps, phogocopies of them are no longer supplied. Photocipies are not very satisfactory because, as already pointed out, dates of changes were indicated by means of coloured ink. When the name of a landholder was crossed out, let's say in green, the name of the new landholder and the date in the 'Observations' column would also be written in green. Four or five colours could be used to indicate changes in a single holding. It is not possible to match changes with dates using a monochrome photocopy.