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In How to Tell if Your Date is Lying Part 1, we talked about how certain behaviorscan tip you off to someone who is lying. We also discussed where you can run anational criminal records check including a search of registered sex offenders.Now let's move on to other truths you may want to know about your date.How to Locate Vital Records Including Marriage, Birth and Death CertificatesState level - typically these records are located in the Vital Records section ofthe Departments of Health in various states, or at the county or parish where theactual event took place.The challenge of this level of search is to try to figure out where the person wasmarried, but a good rule of thumb is to start in the county in which they live.There is a 90% chance that both men and women who stray on their spouses, don't gofar away from home to do it.At the state level, you will get any marriage records that have occurredthroughout the state that are reportable as a public record (versus a confidentialmarriage as described below). Keep in mind that if you request any of this kindof record directly from a state vital records department, you will have to wait anaverage of two weeks to six months for the report.County or parish record level searches are much faster, and you will usually havecopies of the records in your hands within 2 to 3 weeks. If you want to speed upthat process by about 95%, you can use a public record research firmWhat Kind of Records are Available?There are two kinds of Marriage Licenses:1. Public Marriage Records are available to anyone searching the index todetermine if a person is married, and are available at both the State and localCounty or Parish levels.2. Confidential Marriage Records are just that - confidential. That meansthey are only available to the people named on the license, in other words, justthe man and wife can get a copy of these records.Unfortunately these are not available to the public, but many times a publicrecords researcher will discover that the searched name appears in the index, soeven when the confidential marriage record is not available, the fact that thename is in the index lets you know that your subject is in fact married.To order copies of a marriage certificate located at either the Clerk' orRecorder's office, you'll need the full name as well as the Jurisdiction where youbelieve the license might be located.Typically the cost is minimal when you order direct this way - normally frombetween $20 to $25, with copy costs ranging from $.050 to $10 per certified copy.Keep in mind that certified copies are especially helpful if you want to provethat the marriage is real when confronting your liar.You can also hire a member of the National Public Records Research Association,and/or Public Record Retriever Network, which are firms that specialize in thesearching of public records and have met the stringent ethical qualifications ofthese two professional organizations.
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