How do they match: Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers

  • Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers

  • Record Searcher
  • Land and Estates Officer
  • License and Title Clerk
  • Tag and Title Clerk
  • Title Checker

  • Search real estate records, examine titles, or summarize pertinent legal or insurance documents or details for a variety of purposes. May compile lists of mortgages, contracts, and other instruments pertaining to titles by searching public and private records for law firms, real estate agencies, or title insurance companies.

  • Copy or summarize recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts, that affect property titles.
  • Direct activities of workers who search records and examine titles, assigning, scheduling, and evaluating work, and providing technical guidance as necessary.
  • Enter into record-keeping systems appropriate data needed to create new title records or to update existing ones.
  • Retrieve and examine real estate closing files for accuracy and to ensure that information included is recorded and executed according to regulations.

  • Evaluate information related to legal matters in public or personal records.