Do you want to do a free public records search online? Provided you live in a country where public records are available in computerised form, you will definitely find some places where you can conduct your searches. It's worth keeping in mind though that generally using free sources is tedious and a lot of work. There are numerous websites only claiming to offer free access in one form or another. What you will find though is that you will be hoping from one site to another looking for information while finding the information you want is not guaranteed.

If you live in the USA, a quick way around the time consuming process is to visit the official public offices for your state or county and order the reports there depending on what you are looking for. Many public offices have websites where you can go to look up court records and other information. For other records such as birth, death, divorce, criminal checks etc you may be required to pay a search fee or pay to order certified copies. Court records are usually available from respective state/county portals free online and you can perform searches and look up cases.

Below is a list of other places online where you can conduct free public records searches:

1. Google U.S. Government Search (google.com/ig/usgov) or even just Google the search engine.

2. Official State and County websites

3. Google People Search

4. FirstGov.gov - the US Government's Official Internet Search Engine

5. DirectGOv UK offers a searchable public records database

6. 192.com for UK people search

There are many similar websites in other countries. The thing to remember is that the government is one of the best places to get free public records information. However, not all their records are in computerised form so you may have to physically visit their offices to get what you may be looking for.

The most popular way to do free public records search online is to join a specialist public records services as a member. After paying their small one-off payment, you'll get free instant access to all the public records information from all the states and counties in the USA. You get free unlimited searches for life. You can avoid wasting your time hunting for free resources every time you want to do a simple search online. The billions of public records available are compiled into databases which can be easily accessed by anyone with an internet connection and a pc. Once you've joined as a member, you never have to pay a fee again, so basically, you'll be searching for free.

Click here to see a list of searchable public records databases where you can get instant access.