I greatly appreciate your posting the press releases.  I like to stay nationally (and locally) informed and this site gives me that opportunity without thousands of google hits.

This week a probate attorney found a use for this ancient title searcher.  Not everything is on-line and not every Land Records recording is in the computer index.  Wails of  "it's not there."  "The Probate Court has no records.   The Court said "we require proof."  Parties all deceased and there's still a survivorship interest unaccounted for according to the deed given to the Court and, if the other party is dead, "where's proof the STATE estate taxes are paid." The beneficiaries have no idea when the person died, but are sure the person is dead.

Not Wonder Woman.  Just did the traditional old fashioned title search ... and there it was, a 1/4 page typewritten copy of an Estate Tax Release, patiently sitting for all to see in the Land Records books right were it was recorded.  Of course, I read the fine print that the computer index only went back X years.  So as an ancient in-the-building abstractor, I moved on to the on-the-shelf archived indexes and paper books.  Truly enjoyable research time because finding it meant reading through years of original chronoligical order index entries by hand or typewriten under alphabetical listings.  It would have been faster if the Sl - So entries hadn't included the only two banks at that time giving mortgages, but then the research would have been boring. LOL

:( Sad to see that 30 years past appears to be a base line archiving point; I suppose using insurable title rather than the 60 year or to a "good" Warrantee Deed base.