People want to be part of social networks. It instills a sense of belonging that is essential to their survival (or sanity). Like moths drawn to a bright candle flame, people love posting on forums, hitting the Like button on a Facebook page or establishing an online presence through Multiply or MySpace. Chances are, the individual you are looking for, may have his or her own social networking profile.
To kick off your hunt, try the following webpages:
Yoname, Spokeo and Wink are third-party webpages that allow you to crawl through social networking sites in search of people. These should help speed up your search.
Online Public Records - Use Them Wisely
Online records are perfect for conducting almost-thorough background checks on anyone. If you know his name and his birth date, you can find out virtually everything about that individual. Here are 4 websites with which you can start:
. ZabaSearch
. Google
. CriminalSearches
. USA
Hunt Through Death Records
Considering the slight possibility that the person you are looking for may have already passed away, try looking through online death records and grave listings.
DeathIndexes contains a wide database of death records organized by city and state. They offer death certificate indexes, obituary listings, burial records and even death notices.
You can also try hunting for graves through individual cemetery websites. To speed up your look, try visiting FindAGrave and Interment.net, which are webpages that contain cemetery listings.
Go Job Hunting
If you know where someone is employed, you can obtain his contact information by tracking him down through his company or his industry. Jobster contains job listings by name and by industry. You can go through the profiles of people who have added their information on that website in hopes of landing jobs.
ZoomInfo is another website worth looking into. It crawls through profiles and indexes company affiliations.
Basic Google Hunt and Google CSE
Almost all social networking sites, forums and discussion groups, blogs, and personal websites are indexed by search engines, most especially by Google. This is why you should use Google to your advantage.
If you happen to know the individual's first and last name, you can look for any web pages that mention that name through Google. All you have to do is enter the first and last name enclosed in quotes on the Google search field. For instance, if you're hunting for someone named Susan Richards, just enter "Susan Richards" (with quotes) into Google.
Custom Google search engines should help speed things up for you as well as narrow down your search. Just go to Google CSE and click the "Create A Custom Search Engine" button. This will take you to a page which will let you define your search by specifying webpages your search engine will crawl through first. On this field, enter the social networking and public records webpages mentioned in the previous paragraphs. You can add more sites to this list later too. Once you're done creating your very own search engine, you can use it to look for other people in the future.
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