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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Learn How To Locate Anyone Using The Web
At some point in everyone's life you start to wonder about ex-
boyfriends or girlfriends that are from your past. Whether they're
someone you once dated or even siblings, it is occasionally difficult to
know how to even begin a successful search. You could dedicate
hours or even days hoping to find someone through former places of
employment, their old schools or the military, but at each step you
will have to make multiple phone calls, not to mention having to
submit detailed requests in written form, and deal with endless
departments and red-tape.
There are many obstacles in locating old acquaintances including the
possibility that they could have gotten married and changed their
name. This can make finding someone you haven't seen in awhile
daunting. Before the internet became widespread there were very
few options worth the effort to pursue. Searching for old friends
became a massive challenge involving countless man-hours lost
talking to people or an expensive endeavor when you were forced to
pay for a private investigator to do the search for you. Nowadays
though the search is pretty easily done by using the internet.
Before you even fire up a browser what you will want to do is spend
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2. a couple of minutes thinking about the person you're trying to get
back in touch with. Take into account any details you can remember
about their personality, such as nicknames, favorite sayings, maybe
even try to remember a middle initial or where they grew up. If you
know when they were born this will also aid you on your search. You
need to try to remember any unique aspects of their personality,
likes, dislikes and/or quirks about the person.
For the next step you're going to want to open up whatever web
browser is on your computer and surf over to google.com. Try
looking for their full name, nicknames and any variation of their
name that they would go by back when they weren't lost. In addition
to that try adding the names of places they may have lived or worked
along with their name as that occasionally will help increase the
results.
If you're not finding any luck with those searches type in an old email
address that they once had without the domain name into the search
engine. It is common for people to keep the same mail accounts
used for accessing email, even if they've switched providers/carriers.
If you find multiple people with the same name, try clicking on the
links and see if anything looks familiar. Sometimes people bring their
personality with them online, even if they try not to.
If you think that they're the type who'd have some sort of online
profile at any of the numerous social networking sites like Myspace
or Facebook then you'd want to visit yoName (www.yoname.com), a
free search engine that polls a vast number of the big sites for
profiles that resemble whatever information you give about the
missing person (whether email address, full name or otherwise). For
people with popular first and/or last names this may require a small
amount of time on your part to check out all of the results, but it's
very well well organized and will typically include any photos
available along with the search terms to help aid you in going
through the results. If you have an old cell phone number (or even
landline) of theirs you can try performing a reverse cell-phone
lookup.
The Social Security Death Index is a database of all deaths reported
to the Social Security Administration since 1962, when death records
were finally entered into a computerized database. Keep in mind
though that the absence of any specific death record does not
necessarily mean the lost friend is still alive. A lot of newspapers will
also let you search their obituary sections online to see if your
missing person may have shown up there.
If you suspect they may have joined any type of licensed or certified
profession (like doctors, lawyers or accountants) you can try

3. searching the records of local trade organizations. Most people have
at least one hobby or special interest and this can be a big help to
you on your search. For example, if the person you're looking for
plays the banjo, search through the online listings for local bluegrass
or country shows. This may lead to you coming across the person's
name, photo, the name of the band if they're in one and hopefully
even a venue where they are scheduled to appear. You never know,
if the person has always wanted to become a teacher or loves
soccer, there are millions of other possibilities.
If you still aren't finding any information on your lost friend, I hate to
mention it but you may find yourself needing to look at Inmate
Search (www.thempamperedprisoner.com). The site is pretty old
but it hosts a list of contact information for each state system for
finding inmates. Not only that but it also has links to search through
the listings of federal prisoners. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of
options for searching all the states at the same time so knowing the
state in which they'd be most likely incarcerated helps speed up the
process.
If you still can't find anything there are plenty of pay-services on the
web that will do the search for you. You can typically find these
agencies pretty easily on portals like Google. If you decide to pay a
missing friend service to look for the person you want to find, make
sure to go through any fine print before sending in any credit card
information. You need to be positive they are a legitimate company
before giving anyone personal information.
Using these tips can help reunite you with lost friends and loved
ones. It's remarkable what (and in this case, who) you can find on
the web these days.
To learn more information on searching for people online please
visit thelocal-whitepages.
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