In the early days, making inquiries for a person or business through public records was quite hard and required a lot of time and effort. The bureaucratic labyrinths of differing jurisdictions, location, and access to policies made it complicated to make use of public records as a research tool. Just getting started requires a lot of travel to different places like state archives, county courthouses, city licensing bureaus and all, just to find relevant information.

Thanks to the Internet, free access to public records is now more convenient. The federal, state and local governments have all acted in response to the demands to make some public record information available without requiring physical visits to their facilities. Today, a collection of public records is accessible online, and the good thing is that both the quantity and quality of these records increases day by day.

Easy online access to public records does solve the problem of having to visit several locations to get information. But this doesn