Efforts to digitize documents going back to 1836 are continuing in Marshall County. Recorder Marlene Mahler asked the County Commissioners Monday to approve a contract with Fidlar Technologies to scan the deed books dating back as far as the county’s founding in 1836 up through 1960, as well as the deed index books through 1957.
She says it’s part of the plan she made when she started the job, “This is, in fact, phase three of my three-year plan. The first one when I got here was to put everything on the computer, on the new system. Now, we’re working on and finishing up phase two, which is back to 1960, with everything in our offices on the computer. And now this is phase three, and it will be all of the deeds back to the beginning, which is 1836.”
She plans to start work in December, with scanning being finished by April. This will be followed by indexing. Mahler expects the entire process to take a couple of years to get done.
The Commissioners approved the contract with Fidlar, for a cost of about $62,500. That money will come from the recorder’s perpetuation fund.
