| While many people know and would never think to | | | | no matter when your grandparents were born, a |
| look up their grandparents birth dates, those who do | | | | public records search can find results. |
| not have such basic information are always | | | | Online public records searches are becoming more |
| interested in ways to find out this and more about | | | | popular everyday by those interested in getting a |
| older family members. For those whose grandparents | | | | better sense of their family history and heritage. In |
| have passed away, or for those who are unsure | | | | addition to birth records, they also provide death, |
| about their exact birthday, you can find the data you | | | | marriage, military, and immigration records, just to |
| need through national birth records. | | | | name a few. The advantage of using a public records |
| Anytime someone is born in the country, they are | | | | search to find birth records is that you also get |
| issued a birth record. This applies not only to those | | | | additional information about your grandparents other |
| born in hospitals, but those born at home or in other | | | | than that which can be learned through a birth record |
| places, as well. Birth records list the time and date of | | | | alone. |
| birth, as well as the full legal name of the mother and | | | | To perform a birth records search, you will first need |
| any information available about the father. Most birth | | | | to decide on the right type of public records search |
| records list additional data, like the size and weight of | | | | for your purposes. Different public records searches |
| the person and the ages of their parents. Before | | | | make available a variety of types of documents, so |
| social security numbers were instituted, birth records | | | | you need to select one that will limit itself to those |
| were the only document of someone's existence, so | | | | certificates in which you are the most interested. |