The sad part of all of this everyone is that the VM companies, banks even thought when they put these records online that they had the same program as those at the courthouse and in Texas that is completely wrong in almost all instances.  The online records dissallow you to search also by legal description, an added capcity at the courthouse.  On top of using inexperienced employees that are not trained in the actual searching of records and as we all have heard about the claims, there is a definite technique in each county, a good portion of records of record against property is found by legal description only.  Reasons:  the person uses his first name on the deed, then his first initial plus his middle name on the next document, the name is misspelled, the name is inputted with such an odd variation to abbreviation that it can only be found this way, and the list goes on.  I have scanned and emailed an example current owner search to David Bloys to show this very example.  On top of that, in most of my counties, their online records do not include Assumed Names, UCC, judgments, etc. - they are in completely different machines or still in books in the individual counties.  Example, Collin county, Assumed Names and UCCs personals are housed in a completely different computer within the courthouse and can only be accessed there.  Denton county has some judgments and federal tax liens in the computer, mostly corporate, some within the required 10 year span which are under an individual's name is still in books.  This is why everyone has disclaimers on their site, even though I heard that the county clerks are told by the County Clerk to tell people to go to the site when called to ask questions.  The list goes on.  I don't know when more and more claims are going to pop up but they definitely will.