Archive for March, 2010
How to Backup Cell Phone Contacts
March 31st, 2010 by admin | Posted in Business Records, Public Records | | 4 Comments »How to Save and Backup Cellphone Contacts Knowing how to backup cell phone contacts keeps you from ever having to restart your entire telephone and cellphone number archive. You meet people, then lose track of them all the time, but you don’t want a few of your old friends, business contacts a...
How to Change Contact Information in Outlook
March 30th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Business Records, Public Records | | 3 Comments »Changing Your Business Contacts in Microsoft Outlook On the homepage of our static site, we mention that we’ll give information on “Contact Records”, something RecordsBackgrounds hasn’t followed through on until now. Compiling good contact information is nice, but it’s ...
How to Get a Copy of a Birth Certificate from Mexico
March 29th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Birth Records, Vital Records | | 4 Comments »Obtaining Your Mexican Birth Certificate After writing about how to obtain a birth certificate from Canada, it occurred to me that there might be as many, if not more, English-speakers in North America who want to know how to get a birth certificate from Mexico. If you were born in Mexico, but raise...
How to Get a Copy of a Canadian Birth Certificate
March 27th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Birth Records, Vital Records | | 2 Comments »Obtaining Your Canadian Birth Certificate I’ve written a number of articles about obtaining birth records in the United States, but it’s occurred to me that I’ve neglected to write about how to get a copy of a Canadian birth certificate. So if you’re living in the States, but...
How to Get Form DD-214
March 22nd, 2010 by admin | Posted in Military Service Records | | 3 Comments »How to Get Armed Services Separation Form If you are a veteran who is applying for veterans benefits and you no longer have your DD-214 papers, you likely need to know how to get form DD-214 to complete forms to get full vet benefits. Of course, readers right now might be wondering what the heck a D...
How to Stop Eviction
March 19th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Housing records, Real Estate Records | | 1 Comment »Use Your Lease Records to Avoid Evictions Signing a lease gives a tenant certain legal rights, but most tenants don’t know what these rights are. Therefore, if you have a continuing lease, but your landlord is trying to evict you, here’s how to stop evictions legally. People living in a ...
About Real Estate Contracts
March 18th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Real Estate Records | | 1 Comment »Real Estate Contract 101 Real estate contracts are a significant part of the property records you’ll be searching, so I wanted to talk about real estate contracts today. Whenever you buy or sell homes or land property, you’ll be signing a real estate contract of some sort. If you rent or...
How to Find Records of the Deceased
March 17th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Genealogical Records, Private Investigation, Public Records, Vital Records | | 1 Comment »Obtain Records of the Dead Learning how to find records of the deceased lets people research family histories of their long-deceased ancestors, or learn about the recent finanical and property concerns of their late-loved ones and relatives. Whether you’re a genealogy researcher, the executor ...
How to Find Military Records in Your Family History
March 16th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Genealogical Records, Military Service Records | | 1 Comment »Obtaining Military Service Records for Your Family Ancestry Research After my recent post about “Finding Military Service Records of Civil War Ancestors“, I decided to expand (and expound) on the subject to include genealogy studies and all wars in the history of the United States, at le...
How to Expunge Your Criminal Record
March 15th, 2010 by admin | Posted in Background Checks, Criminal Records | | No Comments »Expunging Your Criminal History Learning how to expunge your criminal records lets you avoid embarrassing questions in the job interview process, or having to cover up awkward information on your background check. We talked last Friday about whether dismissed court cases show up on your background c...