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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marbleyes" data-source="post: 248095" data-attributes="member: 675">E, I think you'd be shocked at how often courthouse information is either wrong or inaccurate. I would guess onx gets their information from the tax rolls or more likely from county plat maps because there is no way they run title on all of that land. Either way, errors are more common than you would think. Neither recorders, nor county auditors run title from the patent to present day so they are relying on the information that they "inherited" from previous recorders and auditors. It's not very hard to imagine how human error can easily happen when information was transferred from hand written records to the auditors or recorders computers to the database systems that some counties use now. One simple wrong click or incorrect typed legal description means you won't find the documents proving correct ownership recorded or entered against the legal description you are trying to follow. It happens more often than you would think. Not to mention the fact that attorneys occasionally type the wrong legal description in deeds. I literally just ran into this scenario a week ago while running title. The attorney typed the wrong township in the legal description in two different deeds so both deeds were recorded against the incorrect legal description. I won't bore you with the details of how I stumbled upon it but it was mostly luck and some experience that triggered me to dig deeper. Anyway, if I hadn't stumbled across what I did, I would have had the wrong legal surface owner since those deeds were recorders against the wrong legal description. I have example after example of this very thing and other simple mistakes that alter record ownership of land/minerals. Needless to say, I have zero faith that the database system they are proposing would be any different.</blockquote>

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