So France 1790 is kind of making my point - if that was the last break it's more than 200 years ago. And, yes, well aware of post socialism etc. issues. Not all have to do with records themselves but rather whether certain transfers of property were legal or not - which is different from pure record keeping.

Where I live in Europe nothing litigious for about 200+ years and I can easily pull records for my place beyond 100 years without any need for reading/parsing technology.