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Originally Posted by stat192
thank you so much richie and michael, im going to see what i can find in public records, i just didnt think they went that far back
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It all depends on the jurisdiction. It can be very expensive and time consuming to scan documents. It also depends on the amount of records they have. Glynn County allows you to view land records back to 1871. The District of Columbia you can view back to 1921. In Massachusetts most of the counties can only be viewed back to the 1950's or less. That is due to the large number of record books generated in a county with hundreds, if not thousands of transactions per day. Many of them now do live scanning or scanning within a few days. Most offices are not set up to retroactively scan older records. Usually you have to take apart the book, scan both recto and verso sides of a page in order then rebind the book for storage. After scanning you then need to enter all of the information for each document into a database. D.C. hired an outside company. Many Mass. counties did it in house.