LowellDeeds

With the end of the month upon us, we expect the next few days to be busy at the registry. Otherwise, the number of documents being recorded continues to be well below last year's historically high volume. We are using this lull in business to add to the information already on our computers. For example, we have been scanning registered land documents that were only available on microfilm. We are also finalizing what we call the "index image viewing" program which takes the microfilm of our pre-1976 indexes (which are not on the computer) and scans the index into the computer system. Although you will not be able to do a computerized name search, you will be able to flip through the pages of the index on the computer, just as you now do with the actual book. We are also scrutinizing our current computer index, looking for entries that do not comply with our indexing standards. Any corrections we make are dated and recorded in case that ever becomes an issue in the future.