Sub-series consists of the General Index to the records of the Registrar General. This index contains several indexes each covering a specific period of time. The General Index identifies the nature of each document (commissions, letters patent of incorporation or charters, etc.), its date of issue, the liber (register) and the page (folio) number in the liber where a copy of the relevant document may be located. Once the liber is known, one must find the volume number and the microfilm reel number assigned to it in order to locate a copy of the document. This may be done by using the conversion list which is finding aid 68-1.
The contents of the general index, sorted by date is as follows:1651-1841 (reel M-1628 & C-2883, volume 894, part 1); 1651-1841 (reel M-1628 & C-2883, volume 895, part 2); 1841-1867 (reel M-1630 & C-2884, volume 897, part 1); 1841-1867 (reel M-1630 & C-2884, volume 898, part 2); 1867-1908 (reel M-1631, volume 900); 1908-1918 (reel M-1633, 901); 1919-1929 (reel M-1634, volume 903); 1930-1939 (reel M-1635, volume 904); 1940-1947 (reel M-1636, volume 905); 1948-1954 (reel M-1637, volume 906); 1955-1965, Index to Documents recorded (Ambassadors, Boards of Trade, Charters, & Supplementary Charters, Consuls & Vice Consuls, & Deeds, Releases & Surrenders) (reel M-1641, volume 907); 1958-1964, Index to Documents recorded (Deeds, Releases, & Surrenders; Expropriations, Land Grants, Powers of Attorney & Quit Claims) (reel M-1642, volume 908).
Available on microfilm reels only: 1954-1965, Deeds, Releases & Surrenders; Expropriations and Land Grants (reel M-5917); 1955-, (reel M-5918), A to Z, (Includes Boards of Trade Charters of Incorporation, Commissions; Deeds, Releases, and Surrenders; Expropriations, Land Grants, Proclamations, Quit Claims, Warrants, etc.); 1967-1970, (reel M-5919), A to Z (includes Boards of Trade, Charters of Incorporation, Commissions; Deeds, Releases & Surrenders, Expropriations, Land Grants, Proclamations, Quit Claims, Warrants, etc.); 1970-1973, (reel M-5920), A to Z (includes Boards of Trade, Charters of Incorporation, Commissions; Deeds, Releases & Surrenders, Expropriations, Land Grants, Proclamations, Quit Claims & Warrants); 1973-1975, (reel M-5921), A to Z (includes Boards of Trade, Charters of Incorporations, Commissions, Land Grants, Proclamations, Quit Claims, etc.); 1967-1977, (reel M-5922) - Deeds, Released & Surrenders.