Free public records searches online?

Unfortunately I don't have good news (well it's not all bad) but it won't be easy to find free public records searches online, this is because:

A quite common misnomer is that information which is "available" to the general public i.e. by the free information act, should then be free. Realistically , most of the times there are offline labor fees, material costs, administration etc. And I'm only referring to offline information, of course there is a large cost involved in putting the information up online.

The private companies who charge a fee for providing information have taken the time (and expenses) to draw from a big pool of government resources, namely  court records, county records, phone records, prison records, birth and death certificates, change of address records, property records, business records etc.  They then sort and group all the the info (no small task), and finally load it online.

Because these companies draw their data from such a large pool of resources this means you stand a better chance of finding complete information - if you had to search all this yourself, one by one, ex. starting from county records, it would take a very long time, and many bureaucratic gray hairs later.

For this reason most people rather pay to use the online public records searches , (including myself). It's very convenient, saves loads of time, a lot cheaper than physically driving to all the various government buildings, waiting for hours in queues, and still paying a fee for the information anyway - which is rarely complete.

The company I use are Gov public records searches , I have found them to be the best i.e. they have the largest directory of information, it's a very fast process, and 9 times out of 10 they have the complete information - remember this is not an exact science.

I hope I have helped clear up the free public records searches contradiction! :-)
All the best and good luck with your searches.

I think Pet60 has given you good advice.

And besides is it really worth the schlep of driving around, looking for parking, waiting in queues, waiting in the wrong queue, being redirected to another building,  and eventually getting half complete information, plus you still have to pay. No, bureaucracy ain't pretty.

Nope, I tried that, now I prefer to pay rather than "save" a few pennies with free public records searches online .

Cheers.

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Hi Rachel, for free public records searches I recommend:

http://www.peopleferret.com/free-public-records.htm

All are free government sites, you'll just need to click on the state that you want to do your research in.

I hope this helps, good luck!

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Where can I get free public records searches without paying for access?

If public records are free to the public, how come everywhere I go they want money for access?

I want to see who all has gone to jail and that stuff...

I aree with this answer

Free Public records covers a lot of territory.. if you mean one site with all public records, of all kinds it is very unlikely you will find it for free. 

The reason is that it costs THEM to accumulate  and store the information online. That is the reason why he best ones are pay service.
You also have to be explicit to the type of record. Births and deaths are not public records. They ARE govt records, but restricted for security/ risk of id theft. Historical ones can be found, in some cases.

Hope this helps