What is the best website to conduct a background check?
I am hiring a nanny for my kids and need a background check. I have tried netdetective.com, recommended by Consumer Reports or something, and it is a total scam. They have deducted the $30 fee from my account 3 times now without setting up a user account for me.

Several of my family members are police officers. They can actually lose their jobs if they run checks on people that are not being booked or investigated for something. I tried that route first!~

How to Perform a Do-It-Yourself Free Background Search & Check:

You can find out "5 Essential Steps for Undertaking a Nanny Background Check" here:
http://backgroundsearch.com/KWitems/KWnews/nanny-background-check.html

You can run a background check on her, then ask her questions to verify what you found out. If you want to be discrete, you can ask your questions as part of a social conversation when you are getting to know each other. Then verify her answers against what you have learned.


Step #1 – At an information aggregator, like BackgroundSearch.com , you can put in your subject-person’s name and find every city that he lived-in. That website provides this information for free. You can enter as many names as you like, as many times as you like. Now you know which courthouse records to review.

Step #2 – At the same website, you can find a list of the Criminal Record Offices of every city, county, and state in the USA, along with their website (as reported to the U.S. government.).

Step #3.- Go to the courthouse website, or to the courthouse (if they do not have a website), and review their public records.

Step #4 – Back at BackgroundSearch.com, you can find the Record Offices for Vital Records (Marriage, Divorce, Births, Deaths). Repeat step #3 for Vital Records and any other type of records that you need.

Purchasing a Background Check:
If you want to get a complete report, instantly, you can purchase a comprehensive background check from BackgroundSearch.com (or other information aggregators). Every company (without exception) will charge you something for a complete background check. The companies have to cover their costs to gather all of the public information, put it in a data_base_, keep it up to date every day about everyone, and make it available to you on the internet for instant access.