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is there anywhere on here that you can view public records free?

March 24th, 2010 2 comments

when i go to the sites that say it is free to view public records, it always asks for a credit card number. The link will say its free but its not. Is there any where on here that it is actually free to search AND view public records….death, birth, marriage…….any help will be appreciated… thanks

The LDS church does NOT maintain records of living persons.. they have a huge collection of historical records. There are also many different definitions of what a public record might be (marriage? credit? death?). ALL of these things will be independent and located in different places, with different rules of accessibility.
If you are wanting to research your ancestry.. the best thing to learn is how to be explicit in terms of what it is that you want. A death record for a person who died in 1988 in Michigan can be completely different from a marriage record from the 1870s in Alabama.
A general rule is that records relating to living persons are going to normally have restrictions. You may find marriage records (current) at the courthouse locally.. a birth record for a baby in the last century (broadly speaking) will only be accessible to the parents or person concerned. The law will be different for various states.. different counties will have varying records posted (free) on a www.usgenweb.com site.
Almost everything you do in genealogy will involve looking at the INDIVIDUAL person, defining the locality and time frame, then going for the SPECIFIC piece of information that you want.

What are the world record highs and lows for each month?

March 14th, 2010 1 comment

Before anyone tells me "Google it", I already did, using multiple search queries and came up with nothing. I do know some record temperatures for some months by virtue of their fame and easy accessibility, such as July’s record high being 134 set in Death Valley, California, United States, and September’s being 136 set in El Aziziya, Libya (also the world’s record high). Yet, I can’t find August’s or June’s (June’s may very well be the 129 recorded in Volcano Springs, CA, USA, but I can’t be entirely sure), or any other month’s. And I was able to find that July’s record low is -129 in Vostok, Antarctica, January’s is -87 set in Northice, Greenland, while February’s is -90 set in Siberia (I forget the names of the towns).

well I know a site for the record highs and lows of cities worldwide, however I don’t know one that does monthly records. I’ll put a link down below in case you want to go to it.

By the way, you gotta wonder what -129 would feel like lol.