LowellDeeds

Sorry to have missed a couple of days of blog entries. It won't happen again (for a while, at least). There's a lot going on behind the scenes. The "search land records" button on the website now gives you the option of searching the plan index and retrieving plan images through the Internet search screen. Plans used to be on a separate section of the website, and even there you could only view the images. Now you can also search the index and download the files. If you do chose to view plan images on line, please use the high quality image viewer. The "quick one page viewer" gives you an illegible image. A very big change that's coming soon is our conversion to standard document codes. Several other registries did this back in January, but we want to change the codes for all documents - those that have already been recorded as well as ones that will be recorded in the future. It's a complicated task, so we've proceeded slowly. We should make the change sometime next week. We'll give you plenty of notice and will publish the new document codes on the website. And finally, ACS arrives on the weekend of April 24 with our electronic recording hardware. In the weeks following its installation, we'll be experimenting with the process and providing demonstrations and on-line updates of our progress.