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The recorder's plat and deed books, the school commissioner's record, the coroner's residue, the court order books
What it is: the county layer under the city: the recorder's plat books, from which the four original plats descend; the deed books and the school commissioner's record, where the townsite's own purchase — the school section, bought 1 January 1833 for $800 — is documented; the circuit and superior courts' criminal order books, named by the Crime leg as the route for the 1921 raid dispositions and the small-court course; and the coroner's records, whose published residue is the county genealogical society's Coroner's Records Index 1879–1960. The genealogical society itself stands in this build as a publisher of instruments — the coroner's index, a church-history timeline, the Lindahl account — used and credited as such.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the county records are this build's bedrock and its horizon at once: the plats and the 1833 purchase are settled from them at one remove (through Howard's texts and the nomination research), while the order books and dockets remain named routes, not reads.
Where it fails: measurably, in the Unsolved Mysteries leg: the coroner's unidentified and unclaimed records are not published in a form that can be swept by outcome, so this build's Doe negative is bounded to the published systems (NamUs, the Doe Network, ViCAP, the coroner record as reached) and is printed at exactly that bound — the county's one Doe on the published record is South Bend's.
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