We’re putting the final touches on the newest version of our Blog. The new version will have an entirely different appearance and will use ...

October was not the best month for the Massachusetts Housing market. Our once red-hot real estate market is definitely showing signs of cool...

Yesterday’s Boston Globe NorthWest weekly section contained an interesting article about the use of the Internet by elected officials. A mem...

During this past week, some of us have been bombarded with emails purportedly from the FBI stating that the Bureau has tracked our IP addres...

Here’s your chance ... TEST YOUR THANKSGIVING KNOWLEGDE … a. In what year did the Pilgrims have the first Thanksgiving Feast? 1619, 1620 or ...

The legal notice section of last night’s Lowell Sun was larger than usual for it included ten notices of foreclosure sales (there was an ele...

Thanksgiving Quiz Answers a. The First Thanksgiving was in 1621 , one year after the Pilgrims arrived. b. Cornucopia originated in Greece c....

The largest phase of the 1941-1950 “Grantor Index Imaging ” project is done. Two tasks remain… quality checking the images and verifying for...

When you spent a lot of time working with Deed Indexing Standards, certain names become quite familiar to you. One is E*Trade which is note...

There's still time to comment upon the proposed update to the Deed Indexing Standards . I plan to compile all of the comments I receive...

We assigned an employee to inventory all our of books, documents, records etc... a huge task, of course. Over the past two weeks this indivi...

The Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts ( REBA ), formerly known as the Massachusetts Conveyancers Association, held its annual me...

There is good news on the war against Spyware . Spyware tracks your Interent activity, and bombards your computer with unwanted Pop Up Ads....

Sorry if you had trouble finding the link from the registry’s home page to the blog, but we had to make some changes. Back in December 2003...

Mark your calendar... It might be a little early… but here's the Registry's winter schedule… November 11, 2005 (Friday)- Veteran...

There’s an article in today’s New York Times on “swipe-card” hotel keys. In a posting on this blog some months ago, we reported many hotels ...

The Middlesex North Registry of Deed's blog is now available as an Atom feed. Atom is an information feeder that regularly sends update...

Good news. We now have two computers that are connected to the Middlesex Probate Court's docket database. One of these computers is in...

One of the many things I love about working at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds is its rich history. So often we come across items or b...

The wisdom of our long test period with electronic recording was made evident yesterday when a significant problem arose for the first time....