--- Russell Lipp <[email protected]> wrote: > I also had a problem with that web site. I looked up my > grandparents' > house at 222 Pershing Avenue. It was built in 1920, but this > web site > database only gave owner information back to 1965. I am not surprised to hear it, since 1965 or so is the earliest that they might have started using computers for this kind of record-keeping. To input all previous owners of all properties dating back to the Holland Land Company requires enormous labor costs and this is a county where people already feel too heavily taxed. *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)