courthouse records
Official judicial documents
Courthouse records are official documents maintained by county or municipal courts—deeds, marriage licenses, birth certificates, court proceedings, property transfers, and similar legal filings.
Genealogists, journalists, and attorneys regularly search courthouse records for historical or legal information.
The title search required pulling courthouse records going back fifty years.
- land deedsProperty ownership documents
- case filesOrganized investigation documents
- witness statementsFormal accounts from observers
- family historyRecord of ancestors
- affidavitsSworn written legal statements
marriage licenses · birth certificates · divorce papers · motions · bail bonds · public access · rulings · fee schedules · verdicts · indictments · civil suits · subpoenas · jury selection · transparency initiatives
- genealogy recordsbirth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, vital statistics, family trees
- archivesnational archives, state archives, archivist, archive box, national archive
- local historytown history, local archives, local history, village history, founding
courthouse recordsprivate correspondence
Confidential written communication
sealed records · classified documents · personal letters · personal diaries · private papers
courthouse recordsprivate correspondence
Confidential written communication
hearsay · oral tradition · gossip · rumors · word of mouth
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