Objectives
- Name the custodian for a common record type
- Prefer registries over aggregators
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Lesson
Court filings live on dockets. Corporate registrations live with the state. Property records live with the county. Federal rules and notices live in the Federal Register and the agency’s own site. Aggregators repackage these and can be stale or wrong.
Go to the custodian, capture the exact record, and note the date you retrieved it. Then an aggregator is a convenience rather than your source.