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by PaulDavisThe1st 722 days ago
When I applied for a development permit for my PV arrays, I had to do something very similar to the core of a title search. I headed on down to the county records department, and had to track down each sale (in reverse order), which are recorded in big paper books with handwritten entries, sorted by the first letter of the seller's family name then by date.

However, since this is New Mexico, and even the idea of formal record keeping here is, cough, rather recent, I only had to go back to 1980 for the purposes of the permit

:)