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Category Archives: California

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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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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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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2 Dec

Adoption Search and Reunion

Adoption Search and Reunion has been an aspect of my investigations business for many years. Now I’m formalizing it with a dedicated website that makes it easier for adoptees and birth families to find me. My adoption service locates and...
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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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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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23 Feb

Is the Asset a Manufactured Home?

It’s not a plane or real property but it’s an asset of value that someone lives in and holds title to. No, not a car. Real property ownership records, including deeds, titles and other related financial instruments, are filed with...
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23 Feb

California EMT Registry

Formal disciplinary actions against a California Emergency Medical Technician are now be available as a public record, thanks to AB 2917, which was signed in to law in 2008. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Directory Lookup/Verification provides the public with...
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