West Texas Counties now available!

The following Texas counties are now available on Countyrecords.com:

• Concho County - 1975 forward
• Edwards County - 1991 forward
• Kimble County - 1973 forward
• Menard County - 1976 forward
• Mitchell County - 1958 forward
• Runnels County - 1943 forward
• San Saba County - 1981 forward
• Scurry County - 1979 forward
• Sutton County - 1955 forward
• Tom Green County - from sovereignty

Registered users can select a billing plan for any of the above counties as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use for the county and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.
   

Austin County is now available!

Austin County, Texas is now available through Countyrecords.com. This covers the following dates: 04/11/1983 thru 10/20/2008. Images are available beginning at 04/11/1983.

Registered users can select a billing plan for the above county as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.
   

West Texas Counties coming soon!

An agreement has been reached to offer the following Texas counties on Countyrecords.com:

• Concho County - 1975 forward
• Edwards County - 1991 forward
• Kimble County - 1973 forward
• Menard County - 1976 forward
• Mitchell County - 1958 forward
• Runnels County - 1943 forward
• San Saba County - 1981 forward
• Scurry County - 1979 forward
• Sutton County - 1955 forward
• Tom Green County - from sovereignty

Our goal is to make this available around November 21st.

Watch for further information on the progress of opening of these counties on the Countyrecords.com homepage!

Austin County, Texas coming soon!

An agreement has been reached to offer Austin County, Texas on Countyrecords.com. Our initial offering will include a 25-year history of documents filed at the county. Our goal is to make this available around November 1st.

Watch for further information on the progress of opening Austin County on the Countyrecords.com homepage!

More powerful Grantor/Grantee searches

This article describes some techniques for more powerful Grantor/Grantee name searching on Countyrecords.com. I hope you find these handy.

TECHNIQUE #1:
* Search for a name when you are not sure if you have the first name or middle name
* Search for a name when you may have inconsistent punctuation

For the most part on Countyrecords.com, names are consistently entered using the format shown immediately below the Grantor or Grantee box. For example, for Shelby County, this hint reads:

(example: Smith John)

Other counties may include punctuation and the example will be shown as:

(example: Smith, John)

I've been asked how I can search for a name, whether the name being used is the first name or the last name. I also recently discovered one of our counties that included punctuation in the name fields had a series of documents that were entered without punctuation. We will have that fixed within the week but, in the meantime, I needed to ensure that people were properly finding names. So, I changed the search hint to read:

(hint: Smith%John will find "Smith, John" and "Smith John")

The % wildcard character can handle these issues. Instead of searching for "Smith, John" or "Smith John", you can search for "Smith%John" to find documents posted as:

Smith, John
Smith John
Smith Robert John
Smith, Robert John

TECHNIQUE #2:
* Search for a name when you are not sure what letter is in a certain position

Some names can be spelled more than one way. The 2nd technique uses the underscore wildcard as a placeholder which tells the system that ANY character can appear in this position to obtain a match.

For example, if you search Grantor = GONZALE_ MARY

You will find:
GONZALES MARY
GONZALEZ MARY

The above techniques work in the Grantor, the Grantee and the Grantor_or_Grantee search boxes. I hope they prove to be helpful.

Harrison County is now available!

Harrison County, Texas is now available through Countyrecords.com. This covers the following dates: 04/01/1998 thru 08/07/2008.

Registered users can select a billing plan for the above county as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Documents back to February, 1995 will also soon be available. A second phase is planned to add even more documents for prior dates back to 1982. We are also continually making data corrections and adding new documents as they become available.

Harrison County, Texas coming soon!

An agreement has been reached to offer Harrison County, Texas on Countyrecords.com. Our goal is to make this county available within 30 days.

Watch for further information on the progress of opening Harrison County on the Countyrecords.com homepage!

Sabine County now open!

Sabine County, Texas is now available through Countyrecords.com. This covers the following dates: 01/01/1975 thru 08/01/2008. Images are available beginning at 01/01/1975.

Registered users can select a billing plan for the above county as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.
   

Sabine County, Texas coming soon!

An agreement has been reached to offer Sabine County, Texas on Countyrecords.com. Our goal is to make this county available by August 20th.

Watch for further information on the progress of opening Sabine County on the Countyrecords.com homepage!

Montgomery County, Texas subscription fee reduced!

Effective August 1, 2008, the Montgomery County monthly subscription price on Countyrecords.com has been reduced from $800 to $350. This allows for unlimited searches and downloading of up to 350 documents. After this limit is reached, each additional download costs $1.

Registered users can subscribe to the Montgomery County database as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the monthly subscription billing plan for Montgomery County and then click the "Save Billing Plan" button at the bottom.

Gaines and Kleberg Counties now open!

Gaines and Kleberg Counties (Texas) are now available through Countyrecords.com.

The Gaines County database covers dates from: 11/04/1957 thru 03/31/2008. Please not that images are only available from 11/02/2006 thru 10/17/2007 at this time.

The Kleberg County database covers dates from: 03/17/1994 thru 02/29/2000. Images are available for the same dates.

Registered users can select a billing plan for either of the above counties as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Rio Arriba County now open!

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico is now available through Countyrecords.com. This covers the following dates: 01/01/1965 thru 04/22/2008. Images are available beginning at 01/01/1975.

Registered users can select a billing plan for the above county as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.
   

Gaines and Kleberg Counties coming soon!

Gaines County, Texas and Kleberg County, Texas are coming soon to Countyrecords.com! Check back soon for availability!

Erath County now open!

Erath County, Texas is now available through Countyrecords.com.

This covers the following dates: 01/01/1970 thru 05/20/2008.

Registered users can select a billing plan for the above county as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Expanded Search capabilities

Search capabilities have been expanded to include a date range for many Texas counties. For these counties, you will find boxes to enter a starting and ending date for the search. This will help you narrow down the search when you know the approximate filing date of the document you are trying to find.

New Counties coming to Countyrecords.com

Agreements have been completed to offer the following counties on Countyrecords.com:

Erath County, Texas
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Watch for these counties soon on Countyrecords.com!

Comanche County now open!

Comanche County, Texas is now available through Countyrecords.com. This covers the following dates:

Data: 05/10/1854 thru 01/29/2008
Images: 02/16/2006 forward

Registered users can select a billing plan for the above county as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords.
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link.
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.
   

Aransas, Cameron, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio Counties no longer available after April 30, 2008

The following counties will be removed from Countyrecords.com after April 30, 2008:

Aransas County
Cameron County
Nueces County
Refugio County
San Patricio County

This is due to a contractual restriction placed upon our supplier of the data. We apologize for an inconvenience this may cause. Should we find another supplier of data for these counties, we will once again make it available to you.

Brazos, Hays, Hill and Madison Counties now open!

The following Texas counties are now available through Countyrecords.com:

Brazos: 01/03/2000 thru 03/20/2008 (images from 01/03/2000)
Hays: 09/03/1996 thru 02/29/2008 (images from 09/03/1996)
Hill: 01/04/1993 thru 02/01/2008 (images from 01/12/1993)
Madison: 01/18/2007 thru 01/30/2008 (images from 01/18/2007)

Registered users can select a billing plan for any of the above counties as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Jackson County, Iowa now open!

Jackson County, Iowa documents are now available on Countyrecords.com! This currrently includes Official Records documents filed from March 10, 1997 thru May 8, 2006 as well as General Index documents from August 9, 1945 thru May 8, 2006 (images from January 1, 1998 forward). Newer documents are being added as they become available.

Registered users can select a billing plan for any of the above counties as follows:

• Login to Countyrecords.
• Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
• Click the "billing plan" link.
• Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Uvalde County, Texas now open!

Uvalde County, Texas documents are now available on Countyrecords.com! This currrently includes documents from June 10, 1991 forward (images from June 11, 1997 forward).

Registered users can select a billing plan for any of the above counties as follows:

1. Login to Countyrecords
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Bandera County expanded!

Searches have been expanded for the Bandera County, Texas database. You can now search on the following fields:

• Grantor
• Grantee
• Grantor or Grantee
• Book/Page
• Instrument Number
• Date Recorded
• Instrument Date
• Instrument Type

Searches are also faster as we are using enhanced database technology that is used for many other databases on Countyrecords.com. Try the Bandera County database today!

Uvalde County, Texas coming soon!

Uvalde County is coming soon to Countyrecords.com! Postings will include documents from 06/11/1997 forward.

Anticipated avalability date is March 10th.

More Texas Counties Now Available!

The following Texas counties are now available through Countyrecords.com:

• Duval: 01/01/1986 thru 01/31/2007 (images from 01/01/2002)
• Fort Bend: 01/08/1872 thru 11/18/2005 (images from 01/08/1972)
• Galveston: 01/04/1965 thru 01/28/2007 (images from 01/02/1996)
• Houston: 01/01/1998 thru 01/31/2007 (images from 01/01/1998)

Registered users can select a billing plan for any of the above counties as follows:
1. Login to Countyrecords
2. Click the "modify account" link in the upper right corner.
3. Click the "billing plan" link
4. Select the billing plan you wish to use and then click the "Save Billing Plan" at the bottom.

Henderson County Texas Database expanded!

The Countyrecords.com database for Henderson County, Texas has been expanded to include property searches. The database currently includes recorded documents from 1967 through the end of 2007.

If you previously performed searches of this county, you will find more search fields are now available to you.

If you are a current Countyrecords.com user and wish to search this county, you can select a Henderson County billing plan by clicking the Modify Account link in the upper right, then clicking the Billing Plan link.

Countyrecords.com Posts Record Year in 2007!

In 2007, Countyrecords.com experienced over 200% growth in the number of transactions processed over the previous year. Nearly 900,000 transactions were processed on the site this past year.

A big thanks to all our users who have helped make Countyrecords.com such a great success!

Wood County Texas searches expanded

Searches have been expanded for the Wood County, Texas database. You can now search on the following fields:

Grantor
Grantee
Grantor or Grantee
Book/Page
Instrument Number
Date Recorded
Instrument Date
Instrument Type

Searches are also faster as we are using enhanced database technology that is used for many other databases on Countyrecords.com. Try the Woods County database today!