Are there any resources on the net for searching public records that are public? ie 'free'?

Go to the county clerk public records search. Ton of free stuff IF that particular county has their records on line. My county does. Saves a lot of trouble going to the court house.

You can do a lot of it yourself if you spend a little time learning to navigate around the web site for the county in which the records are located. It will depend to a great extent on just how sophisticated a program they have, but here in Santa Cruz County, California, we get quite a lot off the County's site. Try it, and see if at the end of a search, there is at least a reference to the County Clerk's office and what records are accessible under what conditions. Also, the County Recorder, or perhaps Recorder of Deeds, may have a web site as well. Learn how, and rent yourself out as an on-line paralegal, because it is pretty sophisticated searching at times. You have to know what you are looking for.

till that's on the marketplace from the authorities internet website of the country, state, windfall, parish or county the archives are saved then they received't be accessible in any respect. Or a organisation that pays each and every of the costs to get the files, transcribe it, upload it and keep it on the internet will charge a fee to seem at them to recoup their expenses and make a earnings. some archives you would possibly want to imagine are "public" aren't any further, or maybe as you would possibly want to detect a "index of names" different own information will be accessible in elementary words to those defined through the interior reach regulations as being entitled to work out or get copies of complete archives till they're over 50 to one hundred years previous.

This is a database site. It used to be free of charge. Things might have changed since I last used it. By the way, it's a nation wide database.

http://www.searchsystems.net/

depends on what you're trying to find, tell us what you're trying to find out and I'm sure ppl will have answers.