How do I search public records like the pay sites? There must be a way for a pe

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How do I search public records like the pay sites? There must be a way for a person to do this for free?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Some US Gen Web county-level sites have some birth, marriage and death records. How many depends on how many volunteers offer to transcribe them.

Free BMD has some for the UK; again, it is a function of how many volunteers they have.

The Internet isn't magic. Everything on it has been typed by people, either out of the goodness of their hearts or because someone paid them. If there was a way to find everything for free, the pay sites would not exist. McDonald's would go out of business if there were free hamburger vending machines on every street corner.