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21 Oct

Why Does This County Website Link To a Non-Government Site?

Why would a county government website link to a limited-value non-government directory with only three links to that county’s records? There’s so much that’s wrong with the site that calls itself “open public records.” The first line in the introductory...
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4 Oct

Alameda County New FBN Search

The Alameda County, California Fictitious Business Names (FBN) online database has expanded functionality to include a searchable field for owner name. The FBN index can be searched by registrant name or partial name. Formerly, the only name field was the...
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California, Public Records Alameda County, FBN Leave a comment

11 Feb

Free Court Index Search

A free search of a court index that’s more flexible than the one at the county court site is a desirable investigative tool, right? You may start seeing results from your Google name searches pointing you to the website UniCourt....
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Public Records 2 Comments

16 Jan

Illinois State Tax Lien Searches

From BRB Publications: New Procedure in Illinois There is a new Illinois law affecting recording and searches of state tax liens. Effective Jan 1, 2018, all state lax liens are no longer recorded at the county level by the county...
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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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California, Databases, Public Records Leave a comment

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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California, Public Records, Vital Records Leave a comment

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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Adoption, Genealogy, Public Records, Vital Records Leave a comment

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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Criminal, Databases, Public Records, Research Methods Criminal, database, research Leave a comment

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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California, Public Records 3 Comments

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