The Top Free People Search Tips and People Searches to Help You Find Friends and Family Members
Top ten free people search, finder tips to help you locate past friends and family members. These tips are provided as a public service from the creators of http://www.skipease.com and http://www.411x411.com - two of the web's most popular people search and public record sites.
Akron, OH (PRWEB) February 17, 2006 -- Here are 10 people search tips and online resources for locating past friends and family members without paying someone to do it for you. With a little time, effort and creativity, you can locate a person without a professional investigator. If you decide that you do need the help of an investigator to locate a person, make sure you research the professional qualifications and reputation of the individual before you pay any fees or give any personal information to them.
1. WRITE IT DOWN --
Write down everything you know about the person you are looking for, including: past addresses; high school(s) and universities attended; names of family members; hobbies; last name(s); nicknames; job profession(s); organizations involved with, as well as any other personal identifiers that you can remember about the person.
These personal identifiers will help you focus your people search and will often help lead your search efforts. This information can be changed as you move forward with your search. You may also want to keep a list of searches that you have already used so you don't repeat your efforts.
2. WHITE PAGES --
One of your first searches should be free online white pages. Free white pages allow you to search using various methods like "city and state" searches; "state only" searches or "all states" searches. In addition, you can try last name only searches in situations where the person has an uncommon last name. A last name only search can also help you identify possible relatives of that person to contact. If you don't find what you are looking for online, spend a little money on paid directory assistance.
Free white pages: http://skipease.whitepages.com
3. FREE PEOPLE SEARCHES --
There are some excellent free people searches on the web that typically contain more listings than free white pages. These searches include DA Plus, Zaba Search, Zoom Info and a few others. If you can't find a person listed on free white pages, you will definitely want to try these alternatives.
Free people searches: http://www.skipease.com or http://www.411x411.com
Federal and state inmate locators: http://www.skipease.com/inmate_searches.html
US military locators: http://www.skipease.com/military_locators.html
4. REVERSE LOOKUP --
If you have a phone number ( but no address ) for a person or you have an address ( but no phone number ), you will want to do a reverse search to find the missing information.
Reverse lookups: http://www.skipease.com/reverse_lookup.html
You can also try reversing a phone number or address by entering it into a search engine like Google or Yahoo.
5. MUTUAL CONTACTS --
Contact any mutual friends, colleagues or relations that you share with the person you are looking for. One or more of these shared contacts may be able to put you in touch with the person.
6. SEARCH ENGINES --
Search Engines like Google and Yahoo make great people searches; but don't expect to just enter a name and get your magic answer. This is where the information you wrote down in Tip #1 will come in handy. Use these personal identifiers in your search engine queries to weed out unwanted search results and zero in on the person you are trying to find.
You can find a list of Google search tips and features that will help with your people search at http://www.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=352
7. SOCIAL NETWORKS --
Online communities and social networks are big and people are publishing more and more information about themselves on these sites, including pictures, location information, educational background, professional background, nicknames and other personal identifiers. You can use these sites to find people with online profiles, but you will need to refine your search tactics, since most people do not post first and last names in online profiles. You may want to search using first names or nicknames along with other identifiers like schools, geographic areas, hobbies and profession(s) to locate a person on these sites. Below is a list of some popular social network sites.
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.friendster.com
http://www.facebook.com
8. BLOGS --
Blogs are the fastest growing, most up-to-date area of the internet and they provide a lot of information. You can use blog search engines like http://www.technorati.com to search for people by name, nickname, address or phone number to see if there are any references to them on any blogs.
9. NEIGHBORS --
If you know of current or past addresses for a person, you can do a nearby search to find potential neighbors in the area, who may know the whereabouts of the person you are looking for. Neighbors will often know whether the person you are looking for still lives at the address or when they moved out and where they moved to. In addition, neighbors are sometimes willing to write down and deliver a personal message to the person's address for you.
You can do a nearby / neighbor search by doing a reverse address ( leaving out the specific address number ) to get results for the entire street. The returned addresses that are closest to the person you are looking for are most likely to be neighbors for that individual.
Two excellent reverse address searches are http://skipease.whitepages.com/1067/reverse_address and http://www.daplus.us/ReverseAddress.aspx?Partner=400129
10. PUBLIC RECORDS --
If the other tips fail, you can always try your luck using the numerous federal, state and local public record searches that are available online. Some of the more popular public record searches, including sex offender registry; tax assessor; unclaimed property; professional license and business-related searches, can be found at http://www.skipease.com/free_public_record_searches.html.
Additional people search news and information can be found on our blog at http://www.skipease.com/blog
About Skipease:
The http://www.skipease.com and http://www.411x411.com search sites have been helping people find people since 1999.
Contact:
Rich Heinz, president
Skipease
330-388-1026
http://www.skipease.com
http://www.411x411.com
You have our permission to print, republish and distribute the above information in any format you wish as long as credit for the content is given to http://www.skipease.com and http://www.411x411.com .
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