Curious, she sought help from a friend who was a title searcher.

The group of title searchers and examiners that eventually became the ATE began meeting informally in Philadelphia in 1939.

His mother, Marjorie Schroeder Dumke, was a homemaker who later went to work as a title searcher in Los Angeles.

The job of the title searcher, Mr. Byrne said, is to determine the current status of title to the property.

(The title searcher's fee - Mr. Byrne charges about $165 - is typically included in the cost of the title insurance policy.)

Outside of bodybuilding, Centopani received his bachelor's degree from Fairfield University and now works as a title searcher.

It has been a journey fraught with frustration, errors and a lawsuit by title searchers who say the new system is anything but an improvement.

In the meantime, title searchers will have to use the old paper records.

This time, one of Fidelity National's title searchers found a prior mortgage on the property for $5.4 million from Astoria Federal Savings in New York.

Mr. Budzash got in touch with Pat Ralston, a title searcher from Belmar, who also had called the station.