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For over a year we have been providing town Assessors with deeds on CD. This procedure saves us time, materials and labor. It also allows the local town the opportunity to create an electronic library if they wish. Although, with lowelldeeds.com these deeds are easily accessible. Registry of Deeds are required by law to provide district assessors with copies of deeds. Local Assessors in conjunction with town collectors use ownership records for tax billing and to establish an owners database. As an aside, these CD's have offered us an opportunity to have some fun. A few years back one of our staff members was a local history buff. For a few months we assigned him the duty of scanning pictures of old schools, people, mills, churches and parks in our ten communities. We really weren't quite sure what we would do with them, but they have proven very useful. The Assessor's CD that we send out every month is embedded with a picture of the Lowell Superior Court House, our home. The CD case features an historical picture from the community. Each month we try to pick a theme...schools, parks, gazebo's etc. One community even asked that we forward one of these pictures so they could use it as a screen saver. As I said it's fun.