Does anyone know of a records search that is totally free of cost to search and

Question:Yes www.familysearch.org it's the Mormon run website and its excellent, its also completely free to use.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Yes www.familysearch.org it's the Mormon run website and its excellent, its also completely free to use.

The best kept secret is that public libraries all across the country pay tens of thousands of dollars a year so that you can use one of the two best genealogy search sites absolutely free. Contact your library and see if they don't have either Ancestry.com or Heritage Quest available to you. If you have a library card already, you may even be able to access those sites through a portal on the library's website without going there. Otherwse, you have to use the library's omputers, but there's no cost at all.

BTW, while you're at the library, check out their other genealogy resources, such as Germans to America, Dutch to America, newspapers on film, Biographies of Prominent Citizens (books published across the country in the 1880s and 1890s), census records on film, etc. In addition, they can order even more for you through Interlibrary loan, so it's a wonderful place to research your family...and it's completely free.

I don't know where you're based but two excellent sites in the UK are http://www.freebmd.org.uk for English & Welsh Birth Marriage and Death indexes from 1837 to around 1920.

Also http://www.freecen.org.uk for free transcribed census information for England, Scotland and Wales.

Both are made possible by hours of work from volunteer transcribers.

Unless you put it in your question, we can't tell what country you are from. It is the most frustrating thing about Y!A. Even if you go in through Y!A Austrailia, Y!A Canada or ordinary Y!A, all the questions in English go into one big "pot". I'm in California, for instance.

"Records search" can mean genealogy records. There are 400,000 FREE sites devoted to genealogy on the Internet. The data on them is 80% - 99% accurate, depending on which one you use.

"Records search" can mean your brother-in-law borrowed $500 and skipped town last year, and you'd like to track him down. People ask the whereabouts, phone number and e-mail address of famous, infamous and normal people here all the time.

You would get better answers if you would post again, saying what country you mean and what kind of records you mean.

You'd get even better results, faster, if you browsed or searched the resolved questions.

Someone asked what country you are in. If he checks back I know you are in the US cuz I only look at US questions. As for your question. Here are some good ones I use all of the time and it's a great place to start. The social security death index.
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-b...
tell you date of death, sometimes birth, last place they lived and got benefits.
For immigration from 1830-1892 Castle Garden
http://www.castlegarden.org/
For Immigration records after 1892
http://www.ellisisland.org/

Ted is totally accurate in saying that you get better results when you are specific about what you need, and where it is. This is only your 2nd question, nor should any of us be expected to go back and dig through old posts to figure out where you are. Not mad at you.. just at the poor comment from the last poster. The questions in genealogy are NOT LIMITED to US or UK, or anywhere else.
I will assume that you are looking for genealogy information. I have used online sources for over 20 yrs, and before there was an internet. Things have exploded since the days of bulletin boards and compuserve vs prodigy. I CONSTANTLY find information, break brick walls and have never used a fee based search. That does not mean that they are useless. I currently have a request for a lookup posted right here.
There is a HUGE difference between asking for family history info... and looking for a source for land records in a particular county. Or doing a background check on daughter's scummy looking new boyfriend.
When people want all the info in one central site, it limits what they are going to find. One example of totally free is the genweb (www.usgenweb.com) which covers the entire US. I can't be sure it will have what you want. Most of them have LOCAL RECORDS, not family trees. The LDS church site is completely free and does have submitted family trees. I worked as a volunteer at a family history center (one of the rare non Mormon volunteers) and know that much of the submitted info is unreliable. The extracted records come from original sources, and is more trustable. In other words, you can get information online all day for free.. YOU still have the responsibility to evaluate how good it might be. It is a matter of shifting the thinking from relying on the conclusions of other persons, vs finding a site that has the original info (ie an index of marriage records).
The next step is what G's mom is trying to explain, that ALL RECORDS are not on the internet. If you are SERIOUS about finding accurate lineage, it is a matter of knowing how to use what there is, regardless of where you find it.
The ONLY site that I consistently suggest is www.cyndislist.com, simply because it gives a better view of what is online. It is not competing for your money, and it doesn't expect you to post your research in order to gain access to someone elses' research. By offering thousands of sites, it completely counters the idea that there is any ONE best site.