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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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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

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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Criminal, New York Leave a comment

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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Business, Public Records 1 Comment

4 May

My Favorite Private Investigator Links

Censuses – Library and Archives Canada Twiangulate:Twitter connections between friends and followers The rest of my favorite links are...
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27 Apr

My Favorite Private Investigator Links

Website links of interest to private investigators, librarians, lawyers and information researchers. Websta – Online Instagram web viewer twXplorer – Search terms and hashtags in Twitter Sex Offender Facial Recognition Match International Business Registries How to Bypass Quora Login Links...
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20 Apr

My Favorite Private Investigator Links

Mostly free websites for fact finding and online research for private investigators, genealogists, info pros, attorneys, journalists and the public. MetaLib® – Search Multiple Government Databases Free Public Records Searches | Black Book Online Search Instagram Photos, People, Places –...
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8 Apr

50 state guide to open records laws

[UPDATE: April 8, 2014] Find out which government records are available to the public in each state in the revised, Open Government Guide, produced by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The access to public records for private...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States Leave a comment

24 Feb

Find Government Employees and Salaries

I have endeavored to compile links to all of the databases of government employees with names and salaries hosted by online newspapers, consumer watchdog organizations and government agencies. on the PI buzz page Government Employees. In the past few years,...
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Databases, Government, Public Records Leave a comment