Few know that the internet was actually started as a government project. It was created by the department of defense as a way of protecting our government’s infrastructure by decentralizing the computing power to many computers rather than one. But there is no question that the government has benefited from the move toward electronic records.

Over the last decade, the government has made great strides in putting virtually all of our public records into electronic data bases. While not all of them can be accessed freely due to privacy issues, many of them can be searched by citizens which has introduced an era of open access to public documents that was unimaginable before. The variety of types of public records that are either fully available or are in the process of being converted to online access is amazing including:

* Marriage records
* Birth records
* Death records
* Sex offender records
* Court records
* Bankruptcy records
* Missing persons records
* Census records
* Credit information

These extensive databases provide a tremendous resource to the public for a large variety Continue reading Government Records At Our Fingertips →