Earlier this week at the Fall Register of Deeds meeting, we discussed how to move forward with electronic recording. Right now, Lowell has b...

About 30 people attended the Simplifile electronic recording seminar this past Tuesday at the DoubleTree Hotel in Lowell. Simplifile’s presi...

This should be the last post to the Blogger interface for the LowellDeeds Blog. We've completed our transition to a new blog interface ...

Thank you to our readers for your patience over the past few days. We've been transitioning to new software for our blog. The new form...

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds opened its doors in July of 1855. Prior to that all records for our ten communities (Billerica, Carli...

The Lowell Sun ran a front page above-the-fold story today on rising foreclosure rates in the greater Lowell area, a topic we have frequentl...

“It’s the most wonderful time of the Year” or at least it is when your holiday shopping is done….I really don’t mind the gift giving…it’s th...

Yesterday, someone asked how many people lived in the Northern District of Middlesex County. I didn’t know, but I promised to find out. Firs...

In case you have missed it… the Eyes of the World are on Massachusetts…Well, at least the Technology eyes. Massachusetts recently became th...

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...