Starting your search for a person
Posted by user1 on 17th July 2010
If you are starting to look for someone online, welcome to the club. Trying to find a person has become very common. In fact, there are over 55 Million Google searches done every month with the search term ‘People Search’. It is the increase in these numbers that is alarming – 20% annually.
If you are just starting out on your search you should begin by assessing what category of search you are in. People who simply want to find someone with whom they have lost contact – like a school mate or working associate have it pretty easy. When you need to get into past history or are chasing someone who is eluding you – divorcees, criminals, debt owed, then it gets more difficult. When in doubt, use a people finder.
For searches in the first category – lost contact – start with email address and phone numbers. You should get a hit one several of these over time. Otherwise you should consider spending the small fee that people search firms charge, and get the information in less than a day.
If your search is in the more difficult categories, especially those eluding you, then start by making a list of every piece of information you have on your target. Write down every piece of data that you have on this person, including full name with middle name, not initial, addresses, phone numbers, prior email address, SSN, Driver License Number, and anything else associated with their name.
Your actual searching should begin with the easiest ones first – i.e. online searches for email and phone. In the meantime start your detailed search process. This means that you go through everything you have about the life of your target and look at jobs, schools, hobbies and especially anything that is connected to legal ownership.
Formalized in this context refers to everything that local governments keep track of with licenses, titles, permits, and the like. Chasing this data though State and County files can be very productive. Any revealing or detailed hits in this category will support the following group of search activity, called Direct Access Searches. When you do get hits, use that information to begin chasing things like real estate titles, marriage license, etc. Record anything that looks promising but do not act on it except to conduct further searches. Definitely try an address search on by entering ‘address search’ in Google.
The following type search is called Special Interest. This includes college clubs, military service, religious congregations, etc. You can chase these online through the many online services and applied club and organization sites that keep members in contact.
The final category of your search activity is called Negative History. These are the searches that chase all formal record databases nationwide that keep data on illegal, financial, or statutory filings. It includes arrest records, tax liens, court orders, injunctions, convictions, etc. The key here is that all these records are intended to provide identifying and location data on the subject. If you turn up something in this category it will normally be of significant content. Getting a hit in this category will normally serve your search activities well in terms of producing valuable data. It will greatly contribute to your effort to find a person.
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