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People Search Resources
As work on this site progressed it became apparent that locating people so that they could be contacted to inform them about the project was a very frequent need. The Internet's power was harnessed to facilitate the locating process, and this list of specialized search sites was developed. I hope that you will find it useful when you need to locate someone.
Services that are free are strongly favored in the listing below, but many of these free services also have additional information available for a fee. However, by combining the free capabilities of several services it's usually possible to get an address and telephone number for a person without resorting to the "for fee" services. Since my need is to locate people there is less emphasis on reverse lookup capabilities, and even less on the many other types of public record searches.
How To Do It
Background Check Gateway - The tutorial here shows how to find out almost anything. Emphasizes free resources.
People Search Sites
AnyWho - This is AT&T's telephone lookup page. Most up-to-date, and very helpful. If a telephone number obtained via one of the search services below fails when cross-checked on AnyWho consider that the last 7 digits may be OK but that the area code has changed.
Infospace - Lots of capability here - reverse lookup, metro area searches, address searches, but it's a little hard to find all of them. The most useful links for locating people are "White Pages" and "Search by Phone" which also has a reverse address lookup for people capability. You can use the * wildcard symbol to restrict the reverse address search to a specific block - Example: use 26** to find all in the 2600 block of a street.
ZabaSearch - This is a powerful people search site, which (for less common names) can be searched on a nationwide basis. It gives addresses and often the telephone number and an indication of the age of the person. Problems: The site often gives too many hits for the same person and many of the hits may be for old addresses and/or telephone numbers.
Peoplefinders - Similar to ZabaSearch. If no state is selected will do a nationwide search if the name is not too common. Returns age and a list of possible relatives, but no phone numbers. Shows some previous address information (city only) in a better manner than ZabaSearch.
USA People Search - Can be searched by Name, Phone or Address, but the phone and address searches don't return enough free useful information. Name search does not return address or telephone number, only age and city. Only the first 100 hits are shown, but the results can be sorted by age or city. Overall usefulness is limited.
Skipease - A people search service and links to several other related search services.
411.Com - Lookup by Street Address - This site will return all the addresses (where there are telephone numbers) on a street if the street is entered without a number. Results include the name and telephone number for each address found. Useful for finding neighbors when an address is known but the telephone number is unlisted. Note: The last time I used this site for address lookup it failed to work. Try Infospace above instead.
ZoomInfo - Find people at companies or universities. Excellent for universities, but usually only finds top-level people at companies.
FCC Amateur Search - Many of the people associated with marine radio are also amateur radio license holders, and the multiple search capabilities of this FCC page helps locate them.
Canadian Amateur Search - Search by call sign or name via the Radio Amateurs of Canada web-site.
Social Security Death Index - After all else fails - Maybe they can't be found because they have passed away.
Public Records Search Sites
Pretrieve - A free public records search site. Can input a Name, Address or Phone number and get the matching data plus links to several other types of data for that person or address.
SearchSystems - This site is great for all sorts of public records but not as good as a people finder as some of the sites above. The only negative is that they make you wait for 20 seconds for the free service results. Pay results are faster.
Public Records Finder - Many different categories to search, but some of the results are of limited usefulness.
