Re: Researching Packard registration History

Posted by BigKev On 2010/7/8 14:49:30

I'm in the DMS business (Document Management Services), and I can tell you it not as simple as that. Storing paper cost money. Most State agencies destroy their paper records after 10 years (some as little a 2 years) because of the high costs of warehousing paper. This is based on their document retention policy. The other reason it is expensive to maintain paper is the man-power to both archive it, and retrieve it. Also with paper archives things can get misplaced, lost, etc.

It's only gotten better recently with States starting to digitally store documents instead of using paper. But usually that only involves the new documents moving forward, and the old paper documents are discarded once their retention lifespan is exceeded.

The company i work for their main line of business is getting people away from "Paper Farms".

Now back to the question at hand....

Try to trance down the linage through the last owner and work backwards. I was able to reach back to the mid 60's on my car before the trail grew cold.