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There are many reasons you may want to do a search of public records in Alabama. Maybe you are considering hiring a nanny or daycare provider for your kids and you are concerned about their safety, or you're entering into a business deal with someone you don't know much about, or that you're interested in the background of someone you met through an online dating or chat site. There are literally too many reasons to list here but learning about someone's past can give you a certain peace of mind.

You have several choices when it comes to finding public records, some of which work better then the others. Your first choice is to visit the local court house, library, or government agency office where publicly available records are kept. You can put in a request for a records search which may take several days, and may or may not garner the results you want.

One way to make this method of public records search achieve better success is to hire a private investigator. They know the ins and outs of public records investigations, who to talk to, and the best methods for finding the information their clients are looking for. The only caveat with using a P.I. is cost. They normally charge by the hour and it can add up quickly if their investigation takes longer then originally thought.

What many people fail to realize when they first start doing a public records Alabama search is the sheer number of locations one would have to consider looking at to find all the pertinent background information about an individual. Consider there are sixty seven counties in the state of Alabama alone, each with its own court house, and when you add in all the municipal, district, and circuit courts you can see that finding publicly available information could take quite a bit of time and effort.

Now days as more and more states computerize their public records databases it is becoming easier for the average person to find and use these records for different purposes. Some of the same problems occur with these computerized databases because they also tend to be located at different locations and while many are interconnected via the internet you may not always get a complete records download for the person or people you are interested in.

Fortunately there are now public records search websites that have gone out and catalogued all the public records databases for you. With little more then a name and place of residence you can do not only a public records Alabama search you can also search records nationwide with the click of your mouse.