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Find A Person
Get Their Name, Phone # or Address

Background Them Through Public Records
(Find Their Age, Crimes, Property, Bankruptcies, etc.)

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Internet Phone Books

The Ultimates (Search 4 Directories At Once)
www.anywho.com
Yahoo People Search 
Finding People Overseas

Whitepages.com
Find phone #s, addresses and approximate ages (within 4 years).

Other Useful Tips & Directories

Find Or Background By First Name, Full Name, Partial Last Name, Email Address, Business or Website (Consumer-SOS)
Don't get lost on the Internet! Match a name with their photo or age so you know you got the right person.

Zabasearch
May give you their their actual street address and phone number.
Sometimes even unlisted ones. Also may list the year and month they were born.

Peopledata.com (ages may be wrong)
Search for names, addresses and phone numbers.
To search by first name (for rare names only)
type in the first name, press a space and then enter the letter "a"
For example: menda a or minelva a.

*Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS)
Step by step advice on how to find lost friends and background people. Includes links to specialized search engines, local newspapers and more. 

Find The Owner Of A Lost Cell Phone/What to Do If Yours Is Missing (Consumer-SOS)

Reverse Lookups-Find The Name, Address Or Phone # When You Have Only Limited Information
Strange # on your phone bill? Find out who it belongs to.
Sent a letter to the wrong address? Find out who got it and call them! Also, good for sending Surprise birthday gifts- You never need to ask them for their address.

Is it A Home or Cell Phone #?
Watch out singles. If it's always a cell phone, the person could be married or living a double life. Enter in the area code and phone number to see if the prefix is "Cellular". For landlines it will simply list the first three digits without the word "Cellular". Click Here for a backup site  (For cell #s it will say "cellular" by the word "prefix".

Prison Related People And Places (Consumer-SOS)

Other Public Records (Classmates, Military, Genealogies, etc.)


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General Advice Plus Links

Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS)
Step by step advice on how to find lost friends and background people. Includes links to specialized search engines, local newspapers and more. 

Finding Women Who Have Married Or Divorced
How to find women who have changed their names.

Sleuthing For People Online (Includes Links)
Advice on how and where to search for people, including those who have married and changed their names.

OOPS! I Sent My Letter To The Wrong Address!!!!
Step by step on what to do. 

Reverse Lookups-Find The Name, Address Or Phone # When You Have Only Limited Information
Strange # on your phone bill? Find out who it belongs to.
Sent a letter to the wrong address? Find out who got it and call them! Also, good for sending Surprise birthday gifts- You never need to ask them for their address.

Locating People Overseas

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Find Or Background A Person By Their

Address, Phone # or Emails Friends, Associates & Relationships
Age & Relatives Liens
Bankruptcies/Bad Debt Local Newspapers
Business, Profession Or Certification   Name (Search By First or Last)
Campaign Contributions Neighbors
Criminal/Civil Records Photos
Dating Profiles Property
Death Records County, State City or Zip
Salaries-Federal & State Employees & Officers of Publicly Traded Companies (Exact Dollar Amounts) Websites/Intellectual Property 

Other Public Records (Classmates, Military, Genealogies, etc.)

See also

Is The Guy Your Dating Really Married? (Christian-SOS)

Is Your Spouse Cheating On You? (Christian-SOS)

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Name, Chat Groups & The Search Engines

Find Or Background By First Name, Full Name, Partial Last Name, Email Address, Business or Website (Consumer-SOS)
Don't get lost on the Internet! Match a name with their photo or age so you know you got the right person.

Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS)
Step by step advice on how to find lost friends and background people. Includes links to specialized search engines, local newspapers and more. 

Pipl.com
May extract phone numbers prior addresses, birth dates and prison records that Google may miss.
Even searches Facebook.

THE SEARCH ENGINES BELOW WILL LOCATE PEOPLE BY NAME AND HELP DETERMINE WHERE THE PERSON LIVES NOW. ONCE YOU HAVE FOUND THEIR CITY, COUNTY AND STATE, SEARCH THE CITY, COUNTY AND STATE WEBSITES FOR COURT RECORDS, LOCAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, LIENS, ETC.

Zabasearch
May give you their their actual street address and phone number.
Sometimes even unlisted ones. Also may list the year and month they were born.

Peopledata.com (ages may be wrong)
Search for names, addresses and phone numbers.
To search by first name (for rare names only)
type in the first name, press a space and then enter the letter "a"
For example: menda a or minelva a.

Finding Women Who Have Married Or Divorced  (Consumer-SOS)
How to find women who have changed their names.

Chat Groups (Explains How To Find People Through Them)
Has good links too. Search All Google Chat Groups

US Search.com (National Database)
Enter their name and approximate age to find out their correct age, gender and where they live.  Then look them up in the appropriate state, county and city databases. 

People Search Advice Plus Links (Great Tips)

The Best Search Engines For People Searches
Try Google first. This site is a central spot to do free searches on many  good search engines. For search tricks click here.

Find Someone's Date Of Birth And Where They Live (Consumer-SOS)

City, County & State Governments Online (All 50 States)
Get local court records, liens and property records by going to the homepage of the city, county or state. For more on Counties, click Here. For more on Cities, click Here.

Find The County By The City (National)
Plug in the city and state to get the county. Then do a records search in that county.

Directory Of Nick Names
Lists proper names and their nick names. To search by nick name, click on a link and use the Control F function, otherwise
scroll down the list of proper names alphabetically.

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Property

Find What Someone Bought or Sold on Ebay, Craig's List, etc. (Consumer-SOS)
Did your ex-boyfriend sell your family heirloom? Search by item or by a phone number, name or email to see what they're buying, selling or exchanging.  A phone number may reveal a name or email or vice versa.

Intangible Property: Their Websites, Trademarks, Company They Own (Consumer-SOS)
See what they own and use it to learn more about them and their associates.

Value Of Real Property And Owner Info (30 GA Counties Online)
Type in address.

Do They Really Own That House and If So, Are They Married? (50 States & DC)
To find the owner behind the address, select the county and state where the property is located. Don't know which county? Then on the home page scroll to their county lookup by city, town or Zip Code. Note, wives will often be listed on the deed along with their husbands.

See What The Property Looks Like, What It's Valued At & The Value Of Houses Next To It (Zillow.com)
See Also Realestate.com, Cyberhomes.com and

Note! Searches terms must be precise.
So if you don't get a hit, add or remove parts of the address.
i.e. add or leave off "st" or "ct" or "dr", etc.
Also make sure you have the right city, state or Zip.

Note: For The Green Links Use mailinater to receive the password without giving them your real email address.  Or use mailinater next time as they will require a new email address.)

Property Records (GA Superior Court Clerk)
Enter the person's name to look at deeds ,affidavits and other documents related to their property.  May give you their address, the amount of money they borrowed and more. Requires free guest registration for 4 hours of searching. To Search Next time Use mailinater For Cobb County click Here.

By Their Liens (GA UCC Filings)
GA UCC filings will often provide the name and address of the lien debtor or the lien creditor. To Search Next time Use mailinater.

Create A Fake Email Inbox To Get Passwords and Login Info Without Giving The Site Your Real Email Address (Mailinater.com)
Use mailinater to create a short-lived temporary email inbox to get what you need from a website
without giving them your real email address. mailinater accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you're done - you can walk away. It's all free.

Property Value (All 50 states & DC)
Verify the price of someone's private property.  Enter in their address for how much the house has recently sold for. Even if you can't find their property, you may still be able to verify the value of other houses in the area. 

Find People By Their Property (Tax Assessors All 50 States & DC)
The county tax assessor will sometimes lists the names of the owners and addresses and values of property within its jurisdiction. To locate this agency via GOOGLE, plug in the terms  "X county" "Tax assessor". For another link click Here.

Public Records In Georgia
Good for finding info on court records, liens, real property, etc.

By Their Aircrafts
Type in the last name to find out the owner's address and telephone number as well as the type of aircraft they own. Or do a reverse lookup on the aircraft itself to find info on it's owner.  Scroll to the top for searching outside of the US. 

By Name Of Their Boat (National)
Good for vessels operating on the coast. Punch in the name of vessel for the owner's  name and address. Will not list small vessels under 5 tons or most vessels that operate on the internal waters or canal of any state (except the Great Lakes).  Records for craft less than 5 net tons are kept by the individual states.

By Their Unclaimed Money/Property (Consumer-SOS)
Gives you the last known address of those people with unclaimed money or property.

Pac-Info.com (All 50 states)
Choose a state and will give you links to the most sought after public records.

Georgia City And County websites
Find public records galore on the local level.

City, County & State Governments Online (All 50 States)
Get local court records, liens and property records by going to the homepage of the city, county or state. For more on Counties, click Here. For more on Cities, click Here.

County Lookup By City (National)
Plug in the city and state to get the county. Then do a records search in that county.

To Search What Someone Has Bought, Sold or Given Away

Search Recent Postings on Craigslist, Recycler, Penny Saver And Elsewhere, All At Once
Put in a phone number, name or email to see what they're buying, selling or exchanging.  A phone number may reveal a name or email or vice versa.  Good for about three weeks of postings.

Searching On Ebay

  1. Click Here for where to Enter the member’s user ID or email address.
    Or on Ebay’s Homepage and click the "Advanced Search" link at top and then "Find a Member" (bot. left under Member’s section).
     
  2. Enter the member’s user ID or email address. If you’re not sure of the exact user ID, enter your closest guess with the fewest # of characters you’re sure of. Or try a last name, since emails often consist of last names anyway. (note, if you're asked to sign in, use your back button and enter in only the part of the email to the left of the @).
     
  3. Enter the verification code that is displayed.
     
  4. Click the "Search" button. Your search results will include an  exact match or close matches.
     
  5. May display "items sold," the user profile names who either bought or sold from the subject, and user reviews. May also reveal the subject’s city and state.
     
  6. To see underlying item, click on the Item Number (i.e. Item #: 7033102887). Or Check "view item". Some items may not be clickable.

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Finding People By Their Unclaimed Money Or Property

www.missingmoney.com
A joint effort of NAUPA and CheckFree, an electronic commerce service provider, that plans to combine information from all the states into one database. Type your name into their national search engine and you can learn if money is being held in your name.  They also have a state directory where you can search for the same.  

HUD Insurance Refunds (National)
Find the address of those people who had a HUD/FHA insured mortgage, and  may be eligible for a refund on part of their insurance premiums. enter the "Lastname Firstname MI". If you are not sure of the correct spelling just type in the first few letters of the last name. For example, you could enter SMITH JOHN E, SMITH, or even SMI.

Unclaimed Pension Money (Unclaimed Refunds)
Returns an address which may provide clues on where to search for that person.

Unclaimed Tax Refunds   
Type in your name and state to see if you're listed in the IRS Refund Database.

http://unclaimed.org/
The official site of the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators lists contact information for state and federal unclaimed property offices and provides links to searchable databases.

www.lostmoney.com

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Age & Relatives

READ THIS FIRST!!!!
Search by first and last name only. If known, you may add the state where they live but
leave all other boxes blank, i.e. ignore the box for age, gender, middle name, etc.

Age lookup sites help you identify the person by their name, their age and even the people they've lived with. You may also learn the city and state where the person is living now.

Find Their Date Of Birth
Database of millions of names and birth dates. But many millions are missing.

People Finders.com
In one search, find out their age, the places they've lived and the names and ages of their relatives. Ages not always accurate.

http://www.zabasearch.com/ (Caution! Ages Not Always Accurate!)
May give you their birth year and month, a phone number and their actual street address.

Click on the name and it will enter it in the search engines for you. 
Click on the address and it will do likewise and also give you a satellite photo of the area.

Peopledata.com (ages may be wrong)
Search for names, addresses and phone numbers.
To search by first name (for rare names only)
type in the first name, press a space and then enter the letter "a"
For example: menda a or minelva a.

Possible Business Associations (Incorporations That Mention the Person's Name as an Officer or Agent)
Enter a name to get the person's business or one they're associated with. (Lists their name, age and relatives) For more info, Google the business and also look for owners and agents at the Secretary of State's Office where the business is located.

Intelius.com
Enter their name to get age, state and date when the record was last verified. The last verified date gives you a crude picture of when the person may have moved.  Then look them up in the appropriate state, county and city databases.  May also list people who live together.

Public Background Checks.com (Good For Ages)
Enter their name for their age, city, state and zip code where they've lived, etc.

US Search.com (National Database)
Enter their name and approximate age to find out their correct age, gender and where they live.  Then look them up in the appropriate state, county and city databases. 

Locate America
Learn their age, their middle name and the last 1-5 places where they lived. Then look them up in the appropriate state, county and city databases. Click Here for alternate site.

Whitepages.com
Find phone #s, addresses and approximate ages (within 4 years).

Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS)
Step by step advice on how to find lost friends and background people. Includes links to specialized search engines, local newspapers and more. 

Get the Person’s Age Through Their Phone Number
Enter their phone number and hit the submit button. Click on link to the right of "public data" and a new chart will appear with their age in the second to last column. Not all numbers get results.

Find The Age Of The Person Who Owns The Phone Number (Even Unlisted #s)
May also give the prior cities and states they lived in as well as the ages
of others in the household. Does not do cell phones. To find ages by address see below
 

Examples of proper input:

1234 Oak st 95888
1234 Oak st cityville ca
1234 Oak st #4 95888
1234 Oak st #4 cityville ca
po box 1234 95888
p.o. box 1234 cityville ca

County Lookup By City (National)
Plug in the city and state to get their county. Then search for records in that county. 

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Photos

Google Images
Get a recent photo with just their first and last name. Sometimes you'll also get photos of Facebook friends or associates.

The sites below may allow you to do a name or email search to get their photo. (Free Signup usually required). Email or Name searches may also return the city and state they live in, plus other information they've volunteered about themselves, including people you both know.

FaceBook
Search by name or by email address. To verify the fat balding guy was your 7th grade pal, simply click on his friends and see if you recognize any.  It's probably not him if you see no one you know, and his contacts are from a different state from when you knew each other.

MySpace (To Photo Search, No Sign Up Required)

Linkedin
Search by first and last name for photos or profession. No need to sign in. Information is self volunteered and may not be accurate.

Plaxo
Can search for photos based on a name. May list profession. Must sign up for more info.

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Businesses
(Finding People By....)

The Company They Own (Consumer-SOS)

Their Profession/License Or Certifications (Consumer-SOS)
Are they really a Doctor, Lawyer, Notary etc...
Check out Bankers ,CPAs, Doctors, Government Directories Of People & Their Salaries, Lawyers, Lobbyists, Pilots and more.

Their Business Networking Sites (Consumer-SOS)
Find people based on what they publish about themselves. Sometimes information taken from other published resources. May even have their photo.

Their Websites (See also Are Their Websites Owned By The Same Person or Business)
To find the name and address of a domain name owner, you can use the WHOIS search service provided by NSI. If the "registrant" is the name of another company, enter the website address on that company's "whosis" lookup. Sometimes the company is not a web address reseller at all and just a corporate shell. To find the identity of the owner, see Finding People By The Company They Own.

You can also try Searching European Whois (For Europe). For Asia and beyond, click Here and scroll down the page for the appropriate links. Simply enter the domain name and your search results will include the owner's contact name, phone number, address and email address. Click Here to search the root domain name for owners in all extensions i.e. .com .net .org .edu...

Georgia Public Records
Includes business licenses and lien info in various counties.

Deciphering Deliberately Confusing URLS To Get The Real Website (And Then Lookup The Owner)
Have you ever seen a weird URL like http://www.example.com@2130706433:1234/%2a? You'd think that the spammer was sending you to www.example.com, but he isn't -- this one is really going someone where else. The URL deobfuscator will turn those weird URLs into human-readable ones. Get a techie to interpret results! For backup site click here.

Their Trademarks
Search for a trademark or Patent in the USPTO database and get the trademark original owner's name, address and telephone #. Also check for the current owner through the Trademark Assignment query menu. Do Federal Searches first, then search for state trademarks.
You can also search the International Database for trademarks in Canada and Europe.

Their Copyrights
Search their 3 databases by author and get the address and phone number of the copyright owner.

Their Patents (USPTO Patent Database-Not User Friendly)
Plug in the person's name for their address and the patents they own or invented. Or search by patent number or patent description to get a name behind the patent. Don't like the USPTO search engine? Use Google Advance Patent Search. Looking for who currently owns the patent? Search The USPTO's Patent Assignee Directory. (Good if you need to put a lien on the patent.)


Their Business Networking Sites

Linkedin
Search by first and last name for photos or profession. No need to sign in. Information is self volunteered and may not be accurate.

ZoomInfo
Extracts information about people and companies from various published resources. However, often information is self published and may not be reliable.

Plaxo (Photo, Profession)
Can search for photos based on a name. May list profession. Must sign up for more info.

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Find People By The Company They Own

Corporation Search (GA Sec of State)
Search for any corporation that does business in Georgia and learn the names and addresses of the Officers/Owners and Registered Agents. Or search by registered agent or officer to verify he's with the company he claims to be. For backup site click Here.

Secretary Of States Office (All 50 States-For Companies Not in Georgia)
Do they own a business? Select your state, plug in the name of the business, and you can often find the name & address of the owner, agent and secretary.

One Stop Corporate Lookup (13 US States, 29 Countries, 35 million companies)
Find free records on old c
orporate filings, owner info, etc. Find where a company is, who the owner is, and if it's incorporated in more than one place. May have downloadable corporate filings too.

Possible Business Associations (Incorporations That Mention the Person's Name as an Officer or Agent)
Enter a name to get the person's business or one they're associated with. (Lists their name, age and relatives) For more info, Google the business and also look for owners and agents at the Secretary of State's Office where the business is located.

Officer & CEO Lookup
Type in the business name to find the CEO and officers. Or Click HERE to search by person's Name to see if they own a company. Leave the state blank unless you get too many hits. (Won't show partnerships, only Corps, LLCs, or Incs.)

Find Or Background By First Name, Full Name, Partial Last Name, Email Address, Business or Website (Consumer-SOS)
Don't get lost on the Internet! Match a name with their photo or age so you know you got the right person.

Secretary Of States Office (All 50 States)
Do they own a business? Select your state, plug in the name of the business, and you can often find the name & address of the owner, agent and secretary.

BBB National Complaint Database
Find the business by name, phone number or web address and learn who owns it.  To increase the chance of finding the company just enter a part of the company's name.

Their Websites
To find the name and address of a domain name owner, you can use the WHOIS search service provided by NSI. If the "registrant" is the name of another company, enter the website address on that company's "whosis" lookup. Sometimes the company is not a web address reseller at all and just a corporate shell. To find the identity of the owner, see Finding People By The Company They Own.

You can also try Searching European Whois (For Europe). For Asia and beyond, click Here and scroll down the page for the appropriate links. Simply enter the domain name and your search results will include the owner's contact name, phone number, address and email address. Click Here to search the root domain name for owners in all extensions i.e. .com .net .org .edu...

Public Records In Georgia
Good for finding info on court records, liens, real property, etc.

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Their Dating Profiles

Online dating can be scary. People lie about their age, frequently change their profiles and sometimes have a different profile for each dating site.

But what if you could background someone even before your first date? Even before you know their real name?

With Google Advanced Search, now you can. Their search within a website feature can reveal prior changes to profiles, whether the person is on several sites at once and sometimes even what social events they've attended. You may also learn if they’ve recently moved or are involved in things they never disclosed to you.

Step By Step Approach

  1. Google their profile name, real name, username or user ID. Does his profile change from site to site? Is the nice guy on E-Harmony a cad on letshookup.com? Ask him if he's on other sites and see if he denies it.

  2. Click on the "Cached" link which appears just below each Google search result. Compare the "Cached" old snapshot of the page with the current one. Does the person now like children when he didn’t before? Does his old profile show he's willing to date women age 25-70?

    Got Too Many Hits That Have Nothing To Do With Your Subject? Then Google For Him Within The Top Dating Sites.
    (For a List of such see A List of Top Dating Sites)

  3. Click on Google Advance Search,
     
  4. In the second box on the form enter his profile name, real name, username or user ID (the box that says: this exact wording or phrase).
     
  5. In the very last box ("Search within a site or domain"): enter the name of the site where you found him on or the site you want to investigate. Example: match.com or plentyoffish.com or whatever.com. Do not put in www.
     
  6. Click "Advanced Search" Button.
    (Google with display results found only within that particular website.)
     
  7. Also look at the "Cached" Link which often appears below each Google search result. Does he now like dogs and children when before he hated them? Did he suddenly grow 5 years younger, lose 50 pounds or change his religion?)
     
  8. Repeat steps 3-7, this time, using a first name (if known) and then again their first and last name. For example: a Google lookup on meetup.com shows John Smith was on both meetup.com/Vegas and meetup.com Atlanta. This may indicate he just moved to Atlanta-something good to know if you’re going to background his age, criminal record or bankruptcies, etc. It also shows that on the day he stood you up, he was actually schmoozing at another meetup social event!!!)
     
  9. If You Are Already Dating The Person, lookup their Facebook profile. For more information, ask to become a "friend". This will give you access to their public profile. People list all sorts of information that can be found on the INFO Tab. This may include email addresses, instant chat Ids, and much more which you can Google for even more info about them.
     
  10. For Twitter, use their advance search to search for first and last name under the box that says "This Exact Phrase." Advance search also allows you to search from 15-1000 miles/kilometers from a particular location.

See Finding Friends, Associates & Hidden Relationships

See Is The Guy Your Dating Really Married? (Christian-SOS)

The Books A Date Really Reads or Wants to Read
This link to Amazon tracks their members' wish list for desired books.
Enter in a person's name. Too many hits? Then add a state.

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Friends & Associates/Hidden Relationships

(Using Google, Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and Classmates)

Find out who knows who by using the friend/associate features found on Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn. These allows you to look up your subject and in certain cases, to see who their friends and associates are. (Sometimes a profile will also reveal what someone was doing that day, i.e. playing tennis, in the hospital, out of town, etc.)

Then do a Combined Google search using the names of the two people who might know each other.

Proving That John knew Sam can make or break a lawsuit. Such can show a person’s obvious bias and also lead to more witnesses and more evidence at trial or deposition.

Practical Applications

  • In a Personal Injury case: to show the lone "disinterested" witness really was friends with the other driver;
  • In a Fraud case: to show the defendant had an accomplice;
  • In a Divorce case: to show the husband was dating his "new" girlfriend for years;
  • In a Employment Discrimination case, to show the newly hired secretary was the manager's long time girlfriend;
  • In a Conspiracy case, to show the owners of these separate corporations were close friends with each other;
  • In a Jury Trial: To Show Jurors knew the defendant, had connections with the company or misrepresented themselves on Voir Dire.
  • When Hiring A Partner, Consultant, Vendor or Associate: To show concealed relationships that could endanger attorney client privilege, trade secrets, etc.

How To Find Who Knows Who

  • For Myspace, search for the person by name or email in the "Browse Members" box and then click to view their friends. This will often show their names and photos, as long as their profile is not kept private.
  • Faceebook Requires you log in first for a free sign up, but it also lists the names and photos of people associated with your subject. (as long as profile is not kept "Private"). 

    To find out more information, you or someone else can set up a profile with or without a photo and ask to become their friend. If your subject agrees, you will now have access to their public profile and what ever data listed on such.

    For Example: you might also be able to find out what they did around a
    certain date (might involve clicking the "show more"/show older posts" link at the bottom of the friend's wall page). Plus, their friends might have a bunch of personal
    information listed on the subjects INFO page (See INFO tab up top), some of which could show the extent they know your subject.. Under the INFO Tab might be instant messenger ID names, emails, names of websites companies, etc. Googling such might pull up blogs, flickr accounts, or other information from the same person, and those blogs might contain even more information about the
    person you’re investigating.

  • Linkedin has a similar feature where you can search for your subject and then view their professional contacts and associates. And don’t forget the people search feature on classmates. It may show that the two people went to the same schools.
     
  • See also Find Or Background By First Name, Full Name, Partial Last Name, Email Address, Business or Website (Consumer-SOS)
    Don't get lost on the Internet! Match a name with their photo or age so you know you got the right person.
     

Googling

Still can’t find a connection?

Put both names in Google, with and without quotes. This could show they belonged to the same fraternity, chess club, etc.

Examples:

John Bernake sandra bullock

Or

"John Bernake" "sandra bullock"

Or (For rare first names)

"John Bernake" menda

Proving Relationships Through Other Means

Do they have an corporation? Find out who the officers and agents are. Then repeat the steps above.

See also Corporate Lookups. Is the witness related to one of the employees?

See also Age Lookups (often list relatives)

See also Neighbor Lookup

See also Classmates Lookup (did they attend the same school?)

See also Their Business Networking Sites

See also Tracking By Their Dating Profile

See also Are Their Websites Connected?
 

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Find Out If Different Websites Are Really From The Same Person or Business.
Are two porn websites in cahoots with one another? Want to prove website A is really a front for business B? Or that a server should be shut down because it knowingly hosts malicious websites?
 

Here's How:

1. Look up who owns each site through a Whosis Lookup or Web address lookup

2. Once you discover owners, officers or agents, repeat steps found in Finding Friends, Associates & Relationships and Proving Relationships Through Other Means.

But What If This information is Kept Private or I Still Can't Find A Connection?
Websites that have private domain information pay extra to conceal their owners and agents. If the address of the host server is listed, read their policy on private registrations. This will tell you what is required to force disclosure. Usually you will not be able to see "private" information without a court order or subpoena. But you never know.

Convincing Law Enforcement The Websites Are From The Same Owner or Business
Use the Internet and some common sense.

  1. To obtain a subpoena or court order, demonstrate that the two sites have suspicious commonalities, i.e. similarities in design, links, fonts, wording, graphics, coding, contact #s, mode of operating, etc.
     
  2. Establish a connection by Googling the name with and without the ".com" part to find additional information. Do a separate Google search with the name of the other site. Then Google them both together. You could find complaints about one or both of these sites, as well as the much sought after registration information. Next,
     
  3. Show the two websites are cyber neighbors found on the same server.
    For example: What if two shady businesses had the same crooked scheme, looked very similar, and were later found to reside in the very same office building? And what if this office building was so small it had just a few tenants? Surely this would go a long way in showing they were both connected with one another.

    In the world of cyberspace, the building is called a server and the business tenants are the websites found on the server. And like office buildings, there are millions upon millions of servers; each of which can house only a few hundred or few thousand tenant websites. Since there are billions of websites, scattered on millions of servers, the fact that two of them were found on the very same server is not something to ignore. Especially if the server is a small one and hosts only a few websites. And like in the office example above, the fewer websites on the server, the more likely the server itself can be implicated and shut down.

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By Their Profession/License Or Certifications

Banking Notaries
CPAs/Accountancy Pilots
Doctors Radio/DJs
Government Real Estate
Lawyers Stock Brokers & Investment Advisors
Lobbyists Teachers

Other Professionals

Banking

Occupation Licensing Board For All 50 States & DC
Has lawyers, doctors and CPAs too!

FDIC Bank Find
Use FDIC Bank Find to find your bank's website, its headquarters, the bank's holding company and the bank's annual reports (from which you can verify the Bank's President and Officers, principal place of business, mergers, whether it's still open, etc). Simply search for the bank by name. If numerous banks appear, check those banks listed as "Active" (see right and side). Then after clicking on your bank, check out the link called "Last Financial Information".  Works even for National Banks that are regulated by the Comptroller of the Currency.

Find A Bank Or Holding Company-National Information Center
The National Information Center (NIC) is a central repository of data about banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest, including both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the United States. This web site provides access to NIC data, allowing the public to search for detailed information about banking organizations.

Banking Officers Who've Been Disciplined (For National Banks Only)
Will give you the name of the individual disciplined, the year it happened and the city and state where the bank is located. (This is likely where they also live).

Find A Bank By Its 9 Digit Wire Transfer Routing Number (US)
Have the 9 digit American Banking Assoc. number from a bank account, but don't know the bank? Enter the number here to learn the financial institution involved. May be able to garnish the account or then find out more about the individual.

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CPAs/Accountants

One Stop Professional License Search (GA)
Search by first or last name in 40 occupations or select the occupation and then search. Also has some licenses from other states (Not complete as most hits are from GA).

Certified Public Accountants (All 50 States & DC & More)
See if they're really certified. Provides their name and address.

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Doctors

Georgia Composite State Board Of Medical Examiners
Gives name and address of all licensed medical doctors (includes psychiatrists), their specialty and if they've been disciplined.

Criminal And Administrative Actions Against Doctors From The Drug Enforcement Administration (US Department of Justice)
The criminal cases list only those doctors who were arrested and prosecuted by the DEA.

Doctor Search (National But Must Select A State)
If they're licensed, they should be in here. Get their city, state, type of practice, medical school they attended and the year they graduated.  May also have their phone number. Best to search only by their last name and state.

One Stop Professional License Search (GA)
Search by first or last name in 40 occupations or select the occupation and then search. Also has some licenses from other states (Not complete as most hits are from GA).

Occupation Licensing Board For All 50 States & DC
Has lawyers, doctors and CPAs too!

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Government

Federal Employees And Their Salaries
Search by last name to find their salary, branch and location.
The list has most executive branch employees but does not cover the White House, Congress,  and some independent agencies and commissions. Excluded are employees involved in security work, FBI, CIA, defense department, nuclear materials, and other jobs essential to national security.

State Employees And Their Salaries (Consumer-SOS)
Find their name, title, where they work and what they're paid.

Top Officers Salaries In Publicly Trades Companies (US Only)

US Congressional Salaries (House & Senate, Committee Members, Their Aids & Staff)
Find salaries of staff and other non-elected members.
Use the tabs to search by last name, state, or job title. Results appear at bottom.

State Legislators Salaries (All 50 States)
Their salaries and hourly wages don't seem to match.

Government and State Employee Directories (About 30 States Included)
These directories may include email addresses and phone numbers, departments and more. These sites may be inaccurate so don't assume your subject is lying just because he's unlisted.

State Employee Directories (Google)
Can't find your state? Simply add your state as the last word in Google's search box.

i.e. Government and State Employee Directories California
     Government and State Employee Directories  "New York"

Lookup The Salaries Of People in Your State Government (Canada & Many States)

State, County And Federal Salary Information in All 50 states
If you can't find it here, scroll down below.

Arizona

Arizona State and University of Arizona Salaries (2006)
This database contains the salaries of University of Arizona and Arizona State University employees from 2006. You can search by last name, first name, title, department and/or salary.

University Of Arizona
A searchable database of UA employees, with job titles and salaries, as of 2006.

Maricopa County Salaries

California

Legislative and Executive Salary Search
Find out what each of your lawmakers make, as well as their staff and consultants.

California State Employee Salaries (The Top 2000)
Search by name in their search box for the highest paid 2,000 employees (excluding workers at the University of California, California State University and the state Legislature).

Bay Area Tri City Salaries (Partial listing of the top 1200)
See spreadsheet and articles at right. To Search by last name inside spreadsheet, hold down the Ctrl key and press F to Search.

California University Employees (For 2005)
Amounts based on total compensation for the 2004-2005 fiscal year, rounded to the nearest dollar. In addition to salaries, total pay includes overtime, bonuses, housing allowances, relocation allowances, administrative stipends, revenue sharing and more than a dozen other types of cash compensation.

Los Angeles City Employees Salary Database

San Francisco (Earning over 100k)

 Government employee earning figures from: (PDFs) Belmont, Butte & Glenn Counties, Campbell Cupertino, East Palo Alto, Gilroy, Los Gatos Los Altos Hills Monte Sereno Mountain View, Oakland (Earning over 100k), Palo Alto, Santa Clara County Santa Clara San Mateo, Saratoga Santa Clara Valley Water District Valley Transportation Authority, Vallejo (Earning over 100k)

City of San Jose (Through 2006)
To search by name, hold down "Ctrl" button and the letter "F", then enter a first or last name.

Silicon Valley State Employees (Search Box)

Chico City Salaries

Salaries of State Elected Officials (By Position, Not By Name)

Marin County (No Names, Only Job Titles with Pay/Pay Scales)
See also Their Salary book

Marin County (only those who earn over 100K)

Colorado

Colorado State Employee Salary Database

Colorado Community Colleges Employee Compensation

University of Colorado Employee Pay

Larimer County (Salary & Job Titles , But No Names)

Delaware

Christina School District Salaries

School Employees Earning over $100K

Florida

Top 1000 Paid State Employees for 2006 (Includes FIU and FAMU)
To search by last name, click on the binoculars icon.

Escambia County Employees (Includes City of Pensacola)

Jacksonville & Surrounding Cities
This updated database includes salary information for all of Jacksonville's local public employees, except for municipal employees of Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Baldwin. Employees of state agencies, such as the State Attorney's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement also are not included.

Georgia

Georgia State Salary Database (Includes Schools & Colleges)
For their name, title, where they work and what they're paid.
Just select your category, Ignore all other boxes, and enter a last name in the "Enter In A Name" box.  Caution: List may include former employees or leave out new hires. People may be listed in the wrong departments. 

Atlanta Public Schools (Tells Pay based on Job Title Only)
For names, see state database above.

Guam

Staff Salaries

Hawaii

University Of Hawaii (Salary Look up By Title, Won’t Reveal Names)

Idaho

Idaho State Salary Database
For their name, title, where they work and what they're paid.

Illinois

Illinois School Teacher Salaries

Cook County Employees (Includes Chicago)

Indiana

Statewide Database
Want to know how much state employees are paid? Surf this database of salaries from highest to lowest or search it by salary range, individual names, job title or the name of the hiring agency or university. The Star compiled this list from payroll records for legislators, government workers and employees of state universities.

Bloomington Area Salary Database

Morgan County
Scroll down to search by name.

Purdue University
The data returned show the 2006-07 annual rates of pay for most Purdue University employees on payroll as of Oct. 1, 2006.

Tippecanoe County. Cities & Townships (Teachers, Local Officials & Purdue University)
Scroll down to orange search boxes.

Iowa

Iowa Salary Search
Search by last name or department.

Click Here & Here For Other Iowa City, County & Federal Salaries

Kansas

Salaries for Kansas and Missouri Counties & Universities

Kansas Government Officials (Limited List)

Kansas State Employees Earning over 100K (Includes State Universities)
Scroll to bottom of page.

Kentucky

48,000 Kentucky Employee Salaries (Salary Per Month, Not Per Year)
Find employee by name in either the executive, legislative or judicial branches of government. Executive makes up the largest single branch with 90 percent of employees in this database.

Louisville Employee Salaries

Kentucky Salaries & Indiana State Executives
Want to know how much each of the 7,000 Louisville Metro government employees are paid per year? Or how much more than 65,000 state workers in Kentucky and Indiana earn? Or the salaries of Kentucky legislators and their staffs? Or of Kentucky judges?

Maryland

University of Maryland (2007)
To Search, hold down the Ctrl key and press your keyboard. Search by last name only.

Frederick County
For prior years, see documents section on bottom left.

Massachusetts

2008 State Employee Payroll
Lists projected salaries and earned income from last year. List includes the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and Massachusetts Port Authority. Check for updates in the City Desk Wired blog.

Boston City Payrolls

City of New BedFord Municipal Salaries (2007)
Type a last name or keyword in the search box. Or sort from low to high salaries or vice versa by clicking on the respective field name or down arrow next to it.

Michigan

State of Michigan Salary Search
Find the names, titles, departments, counties of employment and salaries for more than 54,000 Michigan public employees. For partisan positions with the House of Representatives, party information also is included. Records for non-exempt state classified employees were provided by the state Department of Civil Service in June 2007. Records for unclassified state employees, House of Representatives, House Fiscal Agency and Legislative Council employees were provided in July 2007.

University of Michigan Salary Lookup

Teacher Pay Series (Scroll to Bottom For Figures)

State Senate Staff Members

State Court & Appeals Salaries (Support Staff Too)

Livingston County Payrolls
To search by last name, hold down the Ctrl key and press "F" on your keyboard.

Missouri

State Employee Salaries

Database of Government Employees
Search by name or department.

School Salaries From Various Districts

Salaries for Kansas and Missouri Counties & Universities

Montana

Billings City Employee Salaries

Nebraska

Nebraska Blue Book Information  

Salaries Of U of Nebraska Employees
After you open a file, click on the binoculars icon to search by last name.

Nevada

University of Nevada Employee Listing
Lists their name, their job title, their salary and their phone number.

New Jersey

New Jersey Public Employees Of Colleges, Authorities and Local, County And State Governments
Nearly 275,000 employees can be found here. Based on enrollment in the state's Public Employees' Retirement System, or PERS. Back up site Here.

New Jersey State Salaries & Overtime
Does Not Include Local Police and Paid Firefighters.

New Jersey Local Police & Paid Firefighters
Enter a name or select an agency to search for 2006 enrollees in the New Jersey Police and Firemen's Retirement System. The list is current as of the end of December 2006, but does not include state police officers, who have a separate pension system.

Rutgers University Employees

Morris County Employees

New Jersey Salaries (State & A Few Counties)

School Administrator Salaries

New York

New York State Salaries
A database of names and salaries for more than 263,000 employees of New York's state government.

Binghamton University Staff
Scroll to "Extras" on center of page
which also includes payrolls of surrounding areas.

Dutchess County Salaries

Niagara County Salaries
Search alphabetically by last name.

City of Vestal (Near Binghamton)

Village Of Port Dickerson

Yonkers School Employee Salaries

North Carolina

State Employee Salaries

University of North Carolina System Salary Database

Other Salary Databases

Various Cities, Counties & Towns (Job Titles Without Their Names)

Ohio

Ohio Public Paychecks
This searchable list includes all tax-funded salaries $50,000 and higher in Butler and Warren counties. The list, which includes schools, universities, municipalities, townships, prisons and law enforcement, was compiled from information supplied by each local government and state agencies.

Oklahoma

Annual Salaries for State Employees
This payroll data for more than 40,000 state employees was provided by the Office of State Finance. The data lists annual salaries for state employees, job titles and other information. It does not contain employees of higher-education institutions or public school employees.

Salaries of Seminole County Public Employees (2002-2003)

Oregon

Oregon Salaries (Partial List)
Find out how much the state of Oregon pays for 1,017 top managers and administrators in the state lottery and the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. The database does not include elected officials, university system employees, Oregon Health & Science University employees, and managers at SAIF Corp., the state-owned provider of workers’ compensation insurance.

City of Portland (Top 500 Paid Employees)

Search Salem-Keizer Administrator Salaries
Find out how much the Salem-Keizer School District pays for 133 administrators, supervisors and principals.

Pennsylvania

Public School Teachers Salaries
Salary Details of Pennsylvania's 151,000 public school teachers and administrators.

Susquehanna County Salaries

Public School Superintendents

Rhode Island

Salaries of Elected Leaders

Top 100 Salaries

Top 10 Salaries In Each of the State's 24 Departments

South Carolina

South Carolina State Salary Database (Only Salaries 50K & Up)
For their name, title, where they work and what they're paid.
DOES NOT INCLUDE: Lottery Commission, Legislature, Judicial, Santee Cooper. Salary information for state employees earning less than $50,000 a year is available in $4,000 ranges from the Budget and Control Board. See Also State Directory Of Employee Names, Departments & Phone Numbers.

Midlands Salary Database

South Dakota

South Dakota 
This new comprehensive salary database of roughly 13,000 state of South Dakota employees is searchable by name, job title or branch of government.

Sioux Falls
This salary database of more than 1,000 city employees is searchable by name, department and job title. It covers workers employed by the city as of July 2007.

Tennessee

State Salaries For Tennessee & Virginia (2007-2008)
Figures might not account for pay raises, employee turnover or constitutional officers who lost re-election bids. Employees who earn under $10,000 a year were omitted because the Virginia Freedom of Information Act sets that threshold for public disclosure. The data were released by cities, counties, school systems and towns in Virginia and Tennessee and could have changed slightly from the time of release until now.

State Salaries For Tennessee & Virginia (2006-2007)

State Salary Information for 2005
The state withheld the names of certain employees who have investigative jobs.
You can search by any combination of name, title, system, and department. You can type partial names or titles if you wish.

Texas

Houston Area and Harris county Public Salaries

El Paso, Ysleta and Socorro Independent School Districts (2007)
The documents outline the salaries-along with cell-phone allowances, travel and other incentives-for 317 employees. The list includes all three superintendents, associate and assistant superintendents, executive directors, directors and principals.

Superintendent Salaries (Texas Department of Education)
Will generate a report for you if you can figure out how to use the database.

Utah

Utah Public Salaries
This database includes pay information for employees of those Utah agencies that have complied with our public-records requests, made under the state's Government Records Management Act.

Vermont

Vermont State Government Salaries

University of Vermont Salary Data
Click
Here for back up site.

Burlington City Employees

Vermont State Colleges

Virginia & DC Area

State Salaries For Tennessee & Virginia (2007-2008)
Figures might not account for pay raises, employee turnover or constitutional officers who lost re-election bids. Employees who earn under $10,000 a year were omitted because the Virginia Freedom of Information Act sets that threshold for public disclosure. The data were released by cities, counties, school systems and towns in Virginia and Tennessee and could have changed slightly from the time of release until now.

State Salaries For Virginia 2006-2007

Metro Workforce Compensation Database 
Spreadsheet with names, titles & salaries.

Alexandria City Workforce Compensation Database
Spreadsheet with names, titles & salaries.

Fairfax County Government Workforce Database
Spreadsheet with names, titles & salaries.

Counties of Augusta, Nelson, Staunton & Waynesboro (As of 10/2006)
Scroll to bottom of page.

Georgia Mason University Salaries

Montgomery County Public Schools Salaries Database
Spreadsheet with names, titles & salaries.

Chesterfield & Henrico County Salaries (Only Those over $75K)

Washington

Washington State Salaries

Washington State Teachers Salaries

Curious about how your tax dollars support public employees through salaries? Search these publicly available databases to find out where the money is going.

Pierce County

City of Tacoma

School Employees

More Counties Salaries

West Virginia

W2 Earnings For 65,000 State Employees
To search by last name, click on the binoculars icon.

Kanawha County
All salaries for the county's 1,666 employees were posted online a including those who work for the prosecutor and assessor's offices, the commission and the county and circuit clerk's offices.

Kanawha County School Employees
Hold down the Ctrl key, and press F to Search. Search by last name only.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin state employee pay in 2007
Search through a database of more than 15,000 Wisconsin state employees to see how much they earned.

Other Salary Databases (Various City and Counties)

Milwaukee City, County Salaries (Includes Teachers)

University Of Wisconsin Salary Data (See Bottom Links For Large Acrobat Reader Download)
To Search: Click on Binoculars icon and type in last name only.
To enlarge: Click on Magnifying glass and then keep clicking on text until the right size.

Sheboygan County Salaries (Those Earning over $25K)
To Search: An Adobe Acrobat file on the right:
Click on Binoculars icon and type in last name only.
To enlarge: Click on Magnifying glass and then keep clicking on text until the right size.

Public School Staff & Salary Data (Excel Spreadsheets)
Find their name, year of birth, job title & salary.
To search by last name, hold down the "control key" and press the letter "F"

Public School Staff Salaries (Milwaukee Suburbs)
Search to see how much nearly 9,000 public school employees in the Milwaukee suburbs earned in salary and fringe benefits in the 2006-'07 school year. Search by school, district, employee name or job title.

Wisconsin Public School Administrator Pay Database


Canada

Ontario Public Sector Salary Disclosure

Other Canadian Salary Disclosures
Add words  to narrow your hits, such as your town, profession or agency.

Misc. Salaries

Major League Soccer Player Salaries

Top NBA Salaries

NHL Players (2006-2007)


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Lawyers

Georgia Lawyers
Find the name and address of every lawyers in GA.
Also
see if your lawyer has been disciplined or is good standing to practice law.

Patent Agent/Patent Attorney Lookup
Shows only those licensed to practice before the United States Patent Office, Either as a Patent Agent or Patent Attorney. Non Attorneys will be listed as AGENT under their registration number. All attorneys must also be licensed with one state bar association.

Lawyers (National Directories)
Includes links to the Martin-Dale Hubble directory which gives you the attorney's address, phone #s and where they work. Not all licensed attorneys are listed.

Bar Associations In Every State & DC
Links to State Bar Associations and sometimes includes county bar associations as well. State bars will often list the lawyer's name and other information.

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists
(All 50 States & DC)
Find the name address and phone numbers of lobbyists in every state. Just select your state and you will go straight to that states election board.

Washington Lobbyists 
Search by name or industry for those who lobby in Washington DC.  Find out who they've worked for and how much they spent in lobbying. Can look up the company and find out how to contact them.

Occupation Licensing Board For All 50 States & DC
Has lawyers, lobbyists, doctors and CPAs too!


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Notaries

State Notary Lookup
Enter a last and first name only (ignore all other fields) to confirm they are a licensed notary. Will display their middle initial, city, state, Zip Code, county and status. May also have their email address.

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Pilots

Pilot's License
(All 50 States and Worldwide)
Type in their name to find if they have a pilot's license. Site will tell you what they can fly and give you their address, city, state and Zip Code. Not sure of the spelling? Put in just the first few letters of the first or last name and enter a period (wildcard) to get related listings.


Radio/DJs

Radio DJs & Those Licensed To Be On The Radio
(FCC)
Find out if an individual or company is licensed and get their address and license # and type of license. Has Howard Stern and other radio personalities.

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Real Estate

Certified Real Estate Appraisers
(National Government Registry)
Will often provide you with the person's address and phone number.

Insurance Agents, Stockbrokers, Financial Advisors, Funeral Servicers and Pesticide Applicators (GA)

FINRA Broker Check
Provides information about current and former FINRA-registered firms. It also provides information about individuals who are currently FINRA-registered or have been registered with FINRA within the last two years.
To search for a broker, enter the individual's first and last names or the individual's CRD#, select the Broker button, and then select Start Search.

To search for a brokerage firm, enter the firm's name or CRD#, select the Brokerage Firm button, and then select Start Search.

Investor Advisors and Their Firms
Has registration and employment history plus may learn their middle name, firm address, etc.

Occupation Licensing Board For All 50 States & DC
Has real estate brokers, appraisers, doctors and CPAs too!

Arello Real Estate License Verification System (US and Canada But May Miss A Lot)
Search for real estate practitioner info and to verify the current status of that person's license or registration. This tool will research an international database for information you can use to determine whether or not the person with whom you are working is in fact authorized to assist you for a fee in a real estate transaction.

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Stock Brokers/Investment Advisors

Insurance Agents, Stockbrokers, Financial Advisors, Funeral Servicers and Pesticide Applicators (GA)

NASD Stock Brokers (National Directory) 
Find out if a broker or securities firm has an approved registration or been subject to discipline or complaints.

NASAA State Broker Links (Regulating Agencies)
Gets you to the state agencies that regulates brokers. Each state has different information and it may be hard to find what you are looking for.

FINRA Broker Check
Provides information about current and former FINRA-registered firms. It also provides information about individuals who are currently FINRA-registered or have been registered with FINRA within the last two years.
To search for a broker, enter the individual's first and last names or the individual's CRD#, select the Broker button, and then select Start Search.

To search for a brokerage firm, enter the firm's name or CRD#, select the Brokerage Firm button, and then select Start Search.

Investment Advisors
Find their registration and employment history, their firm and even their middle name.

National Futures Association Members
The Details and Status screen contains the number of regulatory
actions, the number of NFA arbitration awards, the number of CFTC
reparations, CFTC registration status, NFA membership status, aliases
and other names for the subject of the search. The screen also provides
links to further information regarding the regulatory actions.

The system does not include information about civil actions between
parties (other than summary information concerning CFTC reparations or
NFA arbitrations), criminal proceedings or actions taken by other
federal or state regulatory agencies or self-regulatory organizations
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Teachers

Teacher Lookup (A Few States)
Some of these databases can mostly be searched by partial name, a convenient tool to obtain a teacher’s full name, verify her certification or how long she’s been teaching.

Teachers With National Board Certifications
Database of over 55,000 teachers.

State Department of Education Websites (50 States & DC)
If you want to identify states that have online teacher certification records go to the specific state Department of Education Web site. Not everything can be found in a search engine.! As an additional measure, you can formulate a Google query.
Example: Massachusetts teacher licensing

See Also Government

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Other

Find Out If They Work For The State Of Georgia & How Much $ They Make (Includes Schools & Colleges)
Ignoring all other boxes, select your category and then enter a last name in the "Enter In A Name" box. This will list everyone with the same surname along with their salaries and departments. Caution: The list may leave out new hires and still have those who no longer work there. People may be also listed in the wrong departments.

One Stop Professional License Search (GA)
Search by first or last name in 40 occupations or select the occupation and then search. Also has some licenses from other states (Not complete as most hits are from GA).

Find Or Background By First Name, Full Name, Partial Last Name, Email Address, Business or Website (Consumer-SOS)
Don't get lost on the Internet! Match a name with their photo or age so you know you got the right person.

Occupation Licensing Board For All 50 States & DC
Has lawyers, doctors and CPAs too!

Insurance Agents, Adjusters and Brokers (GA)
Get their physical address where they live and verify if the person is licensed as an Agent, Adjuster, Counselor, Limited Subagent or Surplus Lines Broker in the State of Georgia. 

Insurance Agents, Stockbrokers, Financial Advisors, Funeral Servicers and Pesticide Applicators (GA)

By Their Occupational License (Consumer-SOS Occupational Licensing Boards) 
Are you looking for someone claiming to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Chiropractor or Accountant, etc? Licensing boards can tell you if this person is for real. They also furnish other information such as date of birth, city of practice and whether the individual has been subject to disciplinary action. 

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State, County, City or Zip Code
1. Where Can I Find A Person's State, City, County or Zip?
2. So What Do I Do With This Information?
 

Where Can I Find Their State, City, County or Zip?
Use the sites below to find the State, County and city where the person lived or once lived.

Use Zip Code To Find County or City It Belongs To
For criminal and property records you'll often need to know the county.

County Lookup By City (National)
Plug in the city and state for county.

Use Zip Code To Find City and State 
Then search for them in the local newspapers and court records. 

Find Zip Code Of An Address

Internet Phone # or Address Books (Consumer-SOS)
Just enter the name to get their address.

US Search.com (National Database)
Enter their name and approximate age to find out their correct age and gender as well as the city and state where they live or once lived.  

Find Their Date Of Birth (BirthDatabase.com)
Database of 120 million names and birth dates
along with their city, state and Zip Code.

The Google Search Engine
Put the name in Google for clues as to where the person lives. Often a phone number in the Google search box will return an address. 

County Lookup By City (National)
To get the county just plug in the city and the state.

http://www.zabasearch.com/
Gives you the the month and year of their birth and the various places the person has lived.

Do a Google on their name. city and/or state for even more information.

County Lookup By City (National)
Plug in the city and state to get the county. Then do a records search in that county.

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What To Do With This Information
Search the State, County, and City homepages for their public records. Also search the newspapers and other public records.

City, County & State Governments Online (All 50 States)
Get local court records, liens and property records by going to the homepage of the city, county or state. For more on Counties, click Here. For more on Cities, click Here.

Local Newspapers (Consumer-SOS)
Search newspapers on the State, county and city level for any mention of the person you're looking for.

Directory Of State Abbreviations
Use these abbreviations to limit Google or Yahoo searches to a specific state. Also try with the state's full name.

Search For People Through All The Other Consumer-SOS Links
You can search anywhere on Consumer-SOS once you know where the person lives.

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Other Public Records

*Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS)
Step by step advice on how to find lost friends and background people. Includes links to specialized search engines, local newspapers and more. 

Missing Persons Genealogies, Birth Parents & Ancestors
Classmates Fee Based Sites
Military Obtaining Vital Records

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Use Social Network Sites & Other Directories To Background By:
First Name or Partial Last Name
Full Name
Email Address
Business or Website (or to Reveal Their Business Affiliations)
 

BY FIRST NAME OR PARTIAL LAST NAME
With a first name, you can find their last name much easier than you think.
In fact, you've probably talked to the person and know other important things that can lead to their surname.

Key is using Google and Special Search Directories to plug in their first name along with other information, such as their first name and partial work address, first name and partial home address, first name and company, first name and profession, first name and school or their first name and city or state. For people with rare first names, you can also search by first name and their hobbies.

Using Google or Yahoo To Find Their Full Name With Just A First Name

For Example: Say you meet "Renata" in the office building elevator. You have no clue about her last name or even the company she works for. But you keep seeing her in the office elevator so you know she works in your building. To find Renata's last name, just Google her partial work address.
Renata "1 glenlake parkway"

Even with a bunch of Renatas, it's easy to find the right one. Just put their full names in Facebook or Linkedin for a photo or other confirming information. Then go to Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS).
 
Search For Rare Names by Putting In Extra Terms.

Even without an address, you can use other information to search by first name on Google or Yahoo. But the name better be rare and you'll need to put in extra terms to narrow it down.  For example: for that bilingual former classmate of yours enter: Minelva Spanish Georgia 

For the musician you met at the bookstore try: Mehgan ukulele Texas. Add or remove terms to reduce or increase hits. Extra terms could include a city, state, (don't abbreviate) their occupation, the name of a child, or another hobby. To narrow down your leads, See Listing What You Know About The Person

Finally, if you haven't got their phone # or address by now, try the Internet Phone Books.

See also Find By Full Name and Finding People On The Internet (Consumer-SOS)

Using Special Directories To Find Their Full Name With Just A First Name or Partial Last Name (See How I Found 2 Colleagues)

In addition to the general search engines such as Google or Yahoo, try the special directories where you can search with just a first name or partial last name.

For example, you can search the Age Directories by first name only, or by first name and their city and state. Got a lot of hits? Then, eliminate the leads too young or too old to be your subject. And many of these directories also allow name lookup with just a few letters of their last name.

Ask yourself, is the person a Doctor, Lawyer, CPA or Patent Attorney? Do they belong to a Professional Licensing Board or association or club that lists members? Did they attend High School or College with you (where you'd have access to their Alumni Directory)? If they went to a different school, do you know where and when? For More Help, see Listing What You Know About The Person.

If the answer is yes, search for them through the Social Networking SitesState Bar Directories, Professional Licenses and Certifications, Alumni Directories and professional associations they may belong to. 

If they've lived in a small town, search by first name in the Local Newspapers. Don't forget to narrow your hits with other search terms if you get too many.

For schools and colleges, search Classmates.com by their first name, and then narrow your leads by school and graduation year. And once you have their full name, weed out obvious false leads based on their age or photo. This can be done by plugging their full names into the Age and Social Networking Sites.  

Finally, if you haven't got their phone # or address by now, try the Internet Phone Books

See also Find By Full Name

EXAMPLES OF HOW I FOUND 2 COWORKERS, ONE BY FIRST NAME AND ONE BY PARTIAL LAST NAME
My Former coworker "Kendall" was an attorney from Atlanta and about 35. But what was his last name? To find out, I simply went to the State Bar Directory and searched for him by first name only.

Of the ten results, I could immediately weed out 6. Some of the these included women, attorneys practicing out of state, or obvious old timers admitted to practice when Kendall was in diapers. So that left just 4 names.

To find the right Kendal, I simply put all 4 of the full names into Linkedin. And out popped his photo, employment history and address. And if that didn't work, I would have looked for his photo in other social networks such as Facebook, or Myspace. Even without a photo, I probably could have found him just by Googling these 4 names, or I could have confirmed their ages through the Age Look Up Directories.

I also wanted to find another coworker named "John" but knew only that his last name began with "GA" and that he was a New Jersey Patent Attorney. Fortunately, patent attorneys are much rarer than other attorneys, the same way that CPAs are much rarer than other accountants.

To find his last name, I simply looked him up in the national directory of patent attorneys. To find that his last name was "Gabos" I selected "New Jersey" and typed in John and a partial last name of "GA". That was all it took.

Social Networking Sites

Finding A Last Name With Just the First Name And A Few Key Words

Classmates.com (Requires Free Signup to Search. Powerful tool if you know their school.)
Go to their "Advanced Search" (under the search button).
Under WHO, Enter the first name and Leave the last name blank.
Under WHAT, choose ALL or choose College, K-12, military or some other category.
Under the NAME box just below WHAT, enter their specific school, college, etc. that you're looking for. (Leave blank if you chose ALL.)
In the WHERE box, enter a city or state (Leave blank if not sure).
See also Old Classmates

US News College Directory  (To Find Your Alumni Directory and Search by First Name, Dorm, Major, Graduation Date, etc.)

Facebook (Requires Free Signup to Search)
Click on "Friends" and then "Find Friends". Ignore all search boxes on the page except the one at the bottom which says "Search For People". Enter the first name and then click on the magnifying glass to search. You can then narrow your search by filtering by City/Region, and/or School, and/or Workplace.

Note: Also Try finding them by their Facebook friends. For example: Say you know "John" is a friend of Graham Firestone but you don't know John's last name.  Check out Graham Firestone's Facebook Page. It may be that John "West" (along with Photo) is listed as a friend. 

LinkedIn (Requires Free Signup to Search By First Name Only)
Enter a first name in their peoplesearch box. Too many hits? Then narrow your leads by adding a location and or profession.

Example: Graham Atlanta attorney.
Or try a first name with a hobby or association and location. Example: Graham "Rotary Club" Kansas (use quotes for compound words and phrases). LinkedIn is not good for looking up emails. 

MySpace (No Membership Required to Search)
Retrieves Any Reference To The Person (first name or full name) found In Other MySpace Blogs, Groups, Profiles, etc.
Use The "MySpace" function to the right of the search box. Except for very unusual first
names, you will need to add other descriptors such as age, location, profession or other identifiers.

For example:  You can search for Graham attorney Atlanta or Graham attorney Spanish Atlanta.
This will retrieve any MySpace page or profile which mentions these terms.

Twitter (Their Search Engine Works Better If You're Already a Member)
Not good at finding new members who have just their profile, i.e. no tweets or other Twitter connections. Use their simple search box to enter in a name, user profile or business. Advance search also allows you to search based on other criteria. For Example: Use Twitter Advanced Search to search for first name and or first and last name under the box that says "This Exact Phrase."  

Skype  (To Search, Must Be a Skype Member and have Downloaded their Free Skype Software)

  1. Open up Skype, click on "View" and then "Directory".
  2. Type in first name only, or first and last name and then search
  3. Narrow your search by entering city, state, county or language in the new pop up screen. You can also type in an email address or Skype Profile Name.
  4. Too many hits? Click on the top headers to sort your results by "Full Name", "Skype Name", "Country/Region" or "Profile". To see a photo or their age, try clicking on their profile. Some users provide this information. Others don't.

FINDING A LAST NAME THROUGH AGE DATABASES

ZabaSearch
Type in the first name, press the space bar and then enter the letter "a" For example: menda a or minelva a. To narrow your results, select a state.

Intelius.com
Type in the first name, press the space bar and then enter the letter "a" For example: Leasan a or minelva a. Must also select their state.

Enter their name to get age, state and date when the record was last verified. The last verified date gives you a crude picture of when the person may have moved.  Then look them up in the appropriate state, county and city databases.  May also list people who live together.

Peopledata.com (ages may be wrong)
To search by first name (works best for rare names)
type in the first name, press a space and then enter the letter "a"
For example: menda a or minelva a. To narrow your results, select a state.

Other Ways To Find Someone's Last Name

Business Or Profession Or Certification (Consumer-SOS)
Use databases to find full name by looking up first name and other criteria, i.e. first name and profession or business, first name and city, or first name and certification or license.l

Friends, Associates & Relationships (Consumer-SOS)
If Graham Firestone is a friend of John X, find John's last name and photo by looking up Graham Firestone's friends.

See Women Who Have Married Or Divorced (Consumer-SOS)

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BY FULL NAME

Facebook (Requires Free Signup to Search)
Click on "Friends" and then "Find Friends". Ignore all search boxes on the page except the one at the bottom which says "Search For People". Enter the first and last name and then click on the magnifying glass to search. Do not put the name in quotes.

Two Options, Searching Location after name, or putting in name and then clicking magnifying glass to filter by region, school workplace.

SEARCHING LOCATION AFTER NAME

Try both the name of the state and its abbreviation.  Sometimes you'll get different results.

Example 1: Graham Firestone
Example 2: Graham Firestone Atlanta
Example 3: Graham Firestone GA
Example 4: Graham Firestone Georgia
Example 5: Graham Firestone Atlanta GA
Example 6: Graham Firestone Atlanta Georgia

FILTERING BY CITY/REGION, AND/OR SCHOOL AND/OR WORKPLACE

Enter in Name, click on magnifying glass, filter by region, and/or school and/or workplace.
Note: Facebook retrieves profiles with these terms even when the terms may not be visible.

LinkedIn (Requires Free Signup to See Photos, Gives Some Of What You Need Without Signup)
Enter a first and last name in their peoplesearch box. (Put compound words and phrases in quotes. Too many hits? Then narrow your leads by adding a location and or profession. If you are a Linked In Member, you can enter in a first and last name and then use their "Advanced Search" to add key words, their title and their location, school, etc.

Example: "Graham Firestone" Atlanta attorney
Or try a first and last name with a hobby or association and location. Example: "Graham Firestone  "Rotary Club" Kansas   

ZoomInfo (No Membership is Required)
Extracts information about people and companies from various published resources. Works the same as LinkedIn
but don't use quotes "".

MySpace (No Membership is Required)

1. To get a user's profile, enter a first and last name in the search box. The drop box to the
    right of your search term should be set to "People".  
    You may even see profile pages where the name is not visible. Note: Don't use "People" to
    search for first names only. It won't work.

2. For Any Reference To The Person (by first name or by full name) found In Other MySpace
    Blogs, Groups, Profiles, etc, Use The "MySpace" function to the right of the search box. Put
    full names in quotes or search by first name. Except for very unusual first names, you will
    need to add other descriptors such as age, location, profession or other identifiers. For

    example:  You can search for "Graham Firestone"  or you can also search by first name only,
    i.e Graham attorney Atlanta or Graham attorney Spanish Atlanta. This will retrieve any    
   MySpace page or profile which mentions these terms.

Classmates.com (Requires Free Signup to Search)
If the full name is not too Common, simply choose "People" and then enter their first and last name in the search box. (if you see your own school in the drop box, change it to "people") Get too many hits? Then narrow it down with an "Advanced Search".
Sometimes Classmates may display a different or hyphenated name up top. This means the woman may be married, remarried or divorced.

ADVANCE SEARCH FOR COMMON NAMES

Go to their "Advanced Search" (under the search button).
Under WHO, Enter the first name and last name.
Under WHAT, choose ALL or choose College, K-12, military or some other category.
Under the NAME box just below WHAT, enter their specific school, college, etc. (Leave blank if you chose ALL.)
In the WHERE box, enter a city or state (Leave blank if not sure).

Skype  (To Search, Must Be a Skype Member and have Downloaded their Free Skype Software)

  1. Open up Skype, click on "View" and then "Directory".
  2. Type in first name only, or first and last name and then search
  3. Narrow your search by entering city, state, county or language in the new pop up screen. You can also type in an email address or Skype Profile Name.
  4. Too many hits? Click on the top headers to sort your results by "Full Name", "Skype Name", "Country/Region" or "Profile". To see their age or
    photo, try clicking on their profile. Some users provide this information.

For More on Backgrounding By Full Name

See Their Trail of Public Records
See People With Common Last Names
See Women Who Have Married Or Divorced
See Old Classmates

See also Wikipedia Listing of Social Networks

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BY EMAIL ADDRESS

Facebook (Requires Free Signup to Search)
Click on "Friends" and then "Find Friends". Ignore all search boxes on the page except the one at the bottom which says "Search For People". Note: Facebook retrieves profiles with these terms even when the terms may not be visible).

Type Emails like this: g_firestone@yahoo.com

MySpace (No Membership Required to Search)
Use the "People" and "MySpace Options".

Enter an email address in the search box. Immediately to the right of your search term, set the drop box to "People". This will turn up any profile(s) which use this email as a contact address (you'll get the profile page even when their email address is not visible).

Also search for the email address with the drop box setting on "MySpace". You won't get the profile it belongs to, but you can find out if it's being talked about in another blog or profile. This may lead you to information about the email address owner.

LinkedIn (Requires Free Signup to Search For Emails)
Enter an email address in their peoplesearch box.

Example: g_firestone@yahoo.com
Don't expect much. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

Skype  (To Search, Must Be a Skype Member and have Downloaded their Free Skype Software)

  1. Open up Skype, click on "View" and then "Directory".
  2. Type in an email address or Skype Profile Name.
  3. Too many hits? Click on the top headers to sort your results by "Full Name", "Skype Name", "Country/Region" or "Profile". To see their age or
    photo, try clicking on their profile. Some users provide this information.

See Wikipedia Listing of Social Networks

See Also Address, Phone # or Emails (Consumer-SOS)


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BY BUSINESS OR WEBSITE

LinkedIn (Requires Free Signup to Search for Businesses or Websites)
Can look up business or website. For businesses, put compound words in quotes i.e. "Simply Paris". For websites, omit the www. i.e. consumer-sos.com not www.consumer-sos.com.

ZoomInfo (No Membership is Required)
Extracts information about people and companies from various published resources. Works the same as LinkedIn but don't use quotes "".

Facebook (Requires Free Signup to Search)
Click on "Friends" and then "Find Friends". Ignore all search boxes on the page except the one at the bottom which says "Search For People". Note: Facebook retrieves profiles with these terms even when the terms may not be visible).

Examples of How To Enter An Email Address, Company or Website:

Type Emails like this: g_firestone@yahoo.com
Companies like this: Microsoft (no INC, CO or LLC)
Websites like this: www.consumer-sos.com

Plaxo (Photo, Profession)
Can search for photos based on a name. May list profession. Must sign up for more info.
 

For More on Backgrounding By Business or Finding Ouy If They Have A Business, See

The Company They Own (Consumer-SOS)
Also shows officers and agents of the company.

Finding Who Officially Owns A Website (Consumer-SOS) 

Their Possible Business Associations (Incorporations That Mention the Person's Name as an Officer or Agent)
Enter a name to get the person's business or one they're associated with. (Lists their name, age and relatives) For more info, Google the business and also look for owners and agents at the Secretary of State's Office where the business is located.

See also Business Or Profession Or Certification (Consumer-SOS)   

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