I know I have at least one client who checks the courthouse records (Georgia) online and then they send me the older stuff or messy titles. I think this is risky. After all, humans are still entering the data. Just yesterday, I was checking a "McMullen" and didn't find it online but did find it in the physical county index. The state online records had the name as "McCullen"!! And today, while searching the last name Aaron, I found a 2nd mtg. in the county index under "Aarron". Whoever typed the loan deed put an in an extra R, thus that's the way it is indexed in the county & online. So if someone was looking online for "Aaron", they wouldn't have found it. I find the online records to be helpful but as a cross-check. There are lots of things you just can't do online.

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