Buying at a Sheriff's auction

[Tayyab Chaudhry]

Quick question - looking at a property at the Sheriff's auction.  How do you find out if there is a lien again the property from a mortgage company?  All the liens I found were tax liens and all the searches the county office are based on the property owner's name and not the address.  Does anyone have a sure bet way to do this even if it cost $ ?  Dont want to bid & win a property that happens to have a mortgage lien!  Thank you in advance.