At closing time today I grabbed the April recording statistics.  The three columns below are (1) document type; (2) the number of those docu...

Yesterday morning the city of Lowell held an auction of nearly 300 tax title properties in the city council chambers at Lowell City Hall.  T...

Last year amid a wave of fanfare Apple introduced iCloud to the world. iCloud is a common sharing/storage area for photos, document etc. Tru...

A story in today's Globe has the Warren Group reporting that sales of single family homes in Massachusetts were up 20% over sales in Ma...

One of the most frequent questions we're asked here at the registry of deeds especially by telephone callers is "when is your next ...

When the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds first installed computers in the late 1980s, they consisted of Wang workstations that were direct...

Last Friday I was in Norwalk, Connecticut to speak to the Connecticut Town Clerks Association about electronic recording.   Connecticut ...

At 11:00PM on April 18, 1775 Paul Revere set out to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British were marching on Concord. Today, Rev...

Now that we've passed the halfway point for the month of April, we can compare the recording statistics for the first two weeks with the...

Google's main company head-quarters is known as the Googlepex. The Googlepex is just one of Google's forty-six locations throughou...

If you read electronic books, there may be some good news on the horizon. Last Wednesday the Federal Government filed a law suit against App...

A friend of mine sent me this video the other day. It is titled "So Dad how do you like your new iPad?" . The characters do not s...

After writing yesterday about some of the details of mortgage modification agreements we've seen recorded recently, I was interested to...

For several years now, the home sales market in Greater Lowell has been sluggish, at best.  One big reason for that is the number of existin...

Over the past few months, several attorneys have mentioned how they're anxiously awaiting the Supreme Judicial Court's decision in t...

Now that March has drawn to a close, we can compare recording statistics for the first quarter of 2012 with the same period for 2011.  For J...

About four years ago we removed all of our paper records book out of public circulation and replaced them with digital images. Several regis...

The National Archives launched a website containing the detailed interview sheets from the 1940 census.  While statistical compilations are ...

While the recording statistics for March were not fantastic, there was more good news than bad.  When compared to the same month a year ago,...

The Greater Lowell Bar Association held a retirement celebration for the Honorable Paul Chernoff yesterday at the Lowell Superior Court. J...