Judy: The on line systems we have here in Virginia have complete land records available on-line- we can do everything at home just like as if we were in the courthouse , except we can have snacks at home. These are by subscription only and we pay a pretty hefty fee to have secure access to each county-and there in is the limitation, the economics limit how many I can afford and justify.Fairfax County has land records back to 1732, with a few books removed,stolen or otherwise lost during the civil war period and this county represents about 80% of my work. I do believe that a good working knowledge of each respective county is required to accomplish a "full" title, no matter where the person performing them is sitting. There are just too many quirks with each local that are required to do a complete search and because of this requirement I do not feel anyone without a good working knowledge of the system would be able to prepare a "full" title.I would never feel comfortable preparing a search in a system I did not have a complete understanding. I have attempted to access some of the wide open Texas counties that have been discussed here on SOT  that it would be nothing more than an incomplete search. Very incomplete! The Indian sites, or any other country, that these companies are selling out to are only as good as their knowledge of the respective systems-liability claims will jump up as well as a lot of disguntled customers that are being sold their "marketable title" based on these types of serious short cuts in title examination.These errors and the downstream effects will be one of our greatest arguments to keep title examination here and more specifically, local too!
Steve Meinecke