The free Transcript Finder
More than 21 million people hold this credential, and sooner or later an employer or a school asks for the paper (the official transcript or diploma copy). The record does not sit in one place: Parchment holds 19 jurisdictions, DiplomaSender holds 14, and 18 state offices run their own process — and the year you passed can move you between doors. Search results for this are polluted by novelty-diploma sellers ranking beside the official doors. This finder computes the honest answer: your state × your year → the door, the fee, the warnings.
Three different kinds of doors hold these records across the 51 jurisdictions — a national records company, a second records company, and state offices running their own process — and the right door depends on your state and the year you passed. Tell it the state and the year; it returns the correct door, its fee, and the era warnings that make people pay twice. No login, nothing uploaded.
If the fee was never published on an official page, the result says so and gives you the honest range — it never invents a number.
The era warnings are the product. Maryland records from 2009 or earlier may carry only a year of birth — email the state office before ordering, or the order fails and you pay twice. Massachusetts records go to one door for every year back to 1968. Four states sit on two custodians' lists at once, so the year decides. Each warning in your result comes from the state's own published guidance, dated 2026-10-20.
A national records company fulfills orders for 19 jurisdictions, including CA, FL, TX-adjacent states and DC. Fees vary and many are not published — the finder says so rather than guessing.
A second records company holds 14 states, including Iowa, Maine, Ohio — and all of Massachusetts, back to 1968, at $20 a document.
Eighteen state offices run their own process, several by mail-in form. Slower, official, and the only real door for those states.
Every state's door, fee and era notes also live on its own page — start from the records hub or the state index.