Finding Out About Gwinnett County Public Records

What's in Gwinnett County Public records? The answer is that most of the major events that occur in the lives of citizens of Gwinnett County are recorded and made available by the county.

To start with there are birth records, marriage records, divorce records, business license records, court records, real estate records, incarceration records, and finally death records. These records exist going back to the founding of the county in the early 1800s.

Prior to the advent of computers and the internet, in order to view the available records, you had to make a trip to the court house, learn the filing system, then look up what you wanted to see.

Because of the way in which the records are stored, it is sometimes difficult to retrieve the specific information you may be looking for.

For example, let's say you want to research the title to your home. All the information is in a single room at the Justice and Administration Center, but finding it may not be easy. Of course you can ask one of the clerks to give you a quick course and they will be willing to do that. But if you're not an expert in searching real estate records you may miss something.

That is why title companies and attorneys pay search specialists to look for encumbrances to real estate titles. But because it is always possible for these experts to miss something, mortgage companies and individuals buy title insurance for protection in the event a title has an undiscovered cloud.

One way to look for county records of all types is to pay a small fee to one of the internet database compilers. The small fee will allow you to do multiple searches for any type of record you may want.