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10 Jun

California Notary Public Database

Each year, the California Secretary of State publishes a list of notaries public who hold active notary public commissions. These can be downloaded as a .zip file and opened in a text editor. Save it to your computer drive and...
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26 May

California Professional License Search

What are you neglecting when you search a commercial or government database of California professional licenses? The California Department of Consumer Affairs license lookup enables simultaneous search of a handful of disciplines. It’s limited and you can’t tell which...
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7 May

California County Coroner Reports

Records of deaths reported in California are in various public records, which may supplement each other with, names of family, place and circumstances of death, physical description of the decedent, residence and their employment. Death certificates and obituaries are familiar...
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5 Dec

Find A Birth In the Newspaper

I may search newspapers for a birth listing because there is no available birth index for that date or I don’t know in which county or state the birth occurred. In the case where I’m searching for birth parents for...
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23 Oct

Supplement Online Public Records With A Phone Call

Can one assume that an online government index is complete even within the inclusive dates? What can you get if you supplement that with a phone call to the agency? A database that aggregates criminal records indicated that my subject...
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3 Feb

Online Court Indexes Are Unreliable

Search an online court index. It functions well (some do) and it returns an index record of cases filed for the subject’s name. But you don’t know if “no record found” is a false negative, do you? This is a...
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23 Nov

Find A Confidential Marriage

My inquiry started with six “no’s” and ended with a “yes” and a fist bump. What’s the law in California regarding verifying a confidential marriage? And who knows it? Private investigators? Genealogists? County clerks? The county clerks aren’t equally informed....
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California, Public Records, Recorder, Research Methods, Vital Records 4 Comments

27 Jul

New York Parolee Search

Not all government sites are created equal. How do you interpret the discrepancy between the New York Department of Corrections Inmate Information lookup and the New York Department of Corrections Parolee Search? The result from a name search on the...
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17 May

Find a Federal Employer Identification Number

[UPDATED May 2014] There are many commercial services that offer a free FEIN (Federal Employer Identification Number) search by company name across multiple states simultaneously. All return different results and amount of detail. Free FEIN searches that also have a...
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