People-search sites offer extreme convenience with their huge database resources, but the field contains a few highly-touted shady to downright dishonest vendors.

Legitimate sights with honest, reasonable prices are well worth the fee for what you get.  The commercial people-finder sites have enormous amounts of data in their vast databases which makes for convenient, fast and comprehensive searches. 

Additionally, these pay people-search sites provide a lot of free information, for example, possible relatives, age, and more, to help you narrow your results down to ensure you have found the person you are looking for. 

Finally, the small fee you pay at the end of your search, usually only a few dollars, is very reasonable for the time you get spend using the site’s facilities.  Nevertheless, you must practice due diligence to avoid the bad guys who are just after your money.

For best results in successfully using the public-records, people-search engines, follow these simple rules.

Rule 1 – No Money Up Front for People Find Sites

When using public record search sites, if you type in a name or address or phone to begin your people search and are immediately presented with a request for money, hit the back button and go somewhere else. You are about to be ripped off.

The ripoff can be subtle or blatently in your face, but who cares, a con is a con and you don’t want any part of that site. Leave immediately.

Rule 2 – Avoid Emotional Appeals to People Finding You

Be assured that none of these people search sites know if anyone is looking for you, and most will not try to fool you with such a statement.  But, there are a few particlular site that tempt you with, “Find out who’s searching for you”, or similar wording. You type in your name and are immediately asked for money to find out who is looking for you, or are taken to a different page that essentially asks the same question, but wants more information from you, like an email address.

Hit the backspace button and leave immediately. In the first place, they surely have no idea who’s been looking for you, and if they did, is it really worth even $5 to find out?

I’d rather just check my email inbox to find out who’s looking for me. Or answer my phone. I’m sure as heck not going to send these bozos any money up front to find out.

You’re going to get nothing until you sign up for a monthly payment of some kind. If you do sign up, what you’ll get is worth about one tenth of what you’ll be paying, if that. Twenty cents a month might be a fair price, not the twenty bucks or more these sites to attempt to get from you.

But, the only con here is the come on. What they really are is a membership site, and they have a right to charge whatever you’re willing to pay to become a member. Once you are a member, they actually can tell you what other members are looking for you, because that’s what membership sites are all about.

Just be sure you know what you’re paying for. If you like what they offer, go for it, but do so cautiously. PRINTRead the small print!

Rule 3 – Read The Small Print on People Find Sites

The small print is tiny for a reason.  When looking for someone using commercial find-people sites,  even honest people search sites, and any other legitimate business, have fine print sections. 

The small print is tiny because it’s boring and distracting to the vendor’s message. It usually contains a lot of legalese that vendor’s must include to protect themselves. But, that tiny print can also contain requirements and disclaimers designed only to hold a dishonest vendor harmless from consumer complaints, untruths, refund requests, continuous hidden payments and other mischieviousness.

Make sure you are signing up for a single charge, not a monthly subscription, unless that monthly subscription is what you want. When you press the “Pay” button, you are signing up for whatever that small print says, so your recourse is minimal when you challenge the company for recurring payments mysteriously showing up on your credit card.

There are remedies, but it usually a lot of hastle that you don’t need, sometimes even requiring you to cancel your credit card account just to rid of the bloodsuckers.

Rule 4 – Test The People Finder Site First

Before launching a serious people search campaign, test the site. Type in a name like John Smith and no other information. You could easily get over one hundred names (don’t blame them for not showing ten thousand or more, that’s overkill). Each of those names should have legitimate information associated with it.

Usually it will show each John Smith’s age, a city and state, and possible relative’s names. This information helps you find your target name from information you already know.

Not every name will have this information, but that’s ok. For some people, even a legitimate people-search site won’t have that information for everyone. But, for most John Smith’s there should be SOME associated data.

If you don’t get a page with this kind of information, leave, you are about to be ripped off. If the site immediately asks for your credit card, get the heck out of there and find another people search site.

The reason for inputting a phony, common name is because if you type in Soozie Stambleforfenstopper, even an honest site will very likely have nothing to show you, so you don’t learn anything about the site.

Rule 5 – Be Responsible – Check People Finder Results

Even when everything looks okay, you get a good list of names, you will find a goldmine of free information in that list, but still need to be diligent.You won’t get everything, don’t expect it. The “details”, phone numbers and addresses, will likely be missing. You have to pay for that and the fees are usually reasonable for what you’ve gotten. Some people search sites charge more than others, so check around using several of the people finder sites.

If you’re not overly concerned with paying a few dollars more than you might somerwhere else, then don’t go to the extra trouble. But, all sites are a little different, so it’s really not all that much bother to check them out, and one might be better for what you’re looking for than another. Each may have different strengths. Explore.

But, you are not out of the woods in avoiding sleazy Internet ripoff tactics yet. You’re still vulnerable.

Even when everything looks ok, you are not out of the woods in avoiding sleazy Internet ripoff tactics. You can still be fooled.

This is the real world and you have to watch out for your own money and not rely on the “authorities” to protect you. They can’t. They can only prosecute egregiously dishonest con artists AFTER those crooks have separated you and thousands of other people from their hard earned cash.

Usually, you will see “View Details” or similar buttons next to each name or list of names. Clicking those buttons takes you to the page where they want some money. That’s legitimate. Where it get’s sneaky is the wording associated with the Pay Buttons.

Rule 6 – Read The People Find Site Content Carefully

Often (not always) there is a choice of costs, their “regular” price and a “special” price. Beware the “special” price. Read what it says, you may be opting to sign up for monthly feeS, if you press that button.

If you do press the button, you have ASKED to be signed up. You can’t blame the site for being dishonest in signing you up and charging your credit card when you volutarily opted for it. Sure, it’s sneaky, but it’s up to you watch out for this.

The “special price” is usually a lot lower and applies only to the list you are looking at, but the wording associated with that button is subtly telling you that you are also signing up for something else that carries a stiff monthly fee.

If you do decide to pay for the withheld information, usually phone numbers and addresses, the charge is usually pretty reasonable in my opinion, for all information they’ve provided. That information helped you to find your target individual.

Sure, it’s more, maybe a lot more, than that “special” price, but don’t be tempted. That “cheap” price is going to cost you plenty on your next credit card statement. And not always. Sometimes the special price may be for taking a survey or trying out some other product.

Read the fine print. If don’t like what you read, don’t take the survey or opt into anything you don’t actually want.

Unless you plan on doing a lot of people searching with any particular site, in which case, the monthly service charge may be a bargain for you. Just make sure you understand what you’re paying for.

Of course, you haven’t paid yet, so even if you do press the opt-in button, you can always just hit your browser back button and leave. You haven’t payed until you give them your credit card information and hit the Pay button. After that, you’re on your own.

Rule 7 – Check CC Statements for People Find Charges

Finding people on the Internet can easy, convenient and even fun, but so is checking your banking and credit card accounts online is also easy. Do it frequently. Especially when you buy from sites you don’t’ do business with regularly and have not yet earned your trust.  This includes all Internet sites, but here we’re talking specifically about commercial people search or people finding sites.

Always check your accounts after purchasing from people search sites if you feel uneasy after the checkout experience. If anything is out of order, notify your bank immediately.

A good first step is to get in the habbit of saving results of your public-records people finder searches as you go along.  

The information that you collect as you search is free for you to use to further refine your searches.

Investigating public records is a research process, use research strategies in finding the persons you are looking for.

You can add to what you have already discovered as you find information.  Addresses, personal information, telephone numbers and, particulary, possible relatives.

All searching is an iterative process, but there are useful tactics searching public-records that you can use to make the process easier and more organized.

Save The Public Records Information As You Go

When looking for people, use the commercial people search engines, the ones that require a small payment once you find your search target. 

These pay search sites have huge databases and are far more convenient to use than looking for information through government and other so-called “free” search sites.

Don’t use just one when starting out, try several of them. You will find one better than another for your particular purpose. All of them return lists of individuals that you can sort and filter according to useful variables, e.g., name, city and state.  If you any such information handy, use it,  in the beginning, and  as you find more.

Remember, as you find it, save the useful clues to organize your thoughts and focus your investigation of public-records search results. People searching is actually fun, but keep organized and stay focused.

You will frequently get long lists names if the person you want has a common name. Several things are useful in narrowing down that list.  Middle initials and age or birth date in the search engines that offer these search options are very handy to use.  Make use of the people finder search engines that have age, birth date and middle name or initial text boxes.

Lots of Public Records Information is Actually Free

Most public records sites afford free people search, at least in the beginning phases.  Don’t start right off giving up your credit card data, for two reasons. 

First you may get a long list that doesn’t contain your target name anywhere.  You don’t want to pay for that if it’s possible to narrow the size of the list.

Secondly, you’re not only losing money, but you’re wasting time.  Do some research first.  It doesn’t cost any more to buy a long list than a short one, but do you really want to call all the people on that long list?  Use the search engines for nothing first, to make your list shorter, then buy the list.

You can do a lot of investigating before you finally want to pay for the detail. If you do it intelligently, write things down, you may not have to pay at all. In any case, don’t pay until you are fairly certain you will have
your target name on the list.

If you’re looking for a girl you knew in high school, or even a married woman with whom you lost touch over the years, she may have a new married name. Many people-search sites provide for searching marriage license indexes. Use the free search first to see if you find her maiden name with a likely date, both for her age and the time of the marriage.

The free search will not provide her new name, you will most likely have to pay for that. But once you have it, you can use the other people-finder search engines to locate your target.

The marriage information will also provide the husband’s first name, which will be useful in narrowing down your search. Again, use all the information you’ve accumulated, husband and wife’s ages, marriage dates, birth dates, age and possible relatives when those are listed.

To find one long lost friend, I entered her last name into a marriage license search and got two hits, one for a groom and one for a bride. Obviously, the bride was what I was looking for, so I could ignore the groom. No information was given though, except the last name I had entered, so in order to find her married name at this point, I had to pay for the marriage license information.  You won’t get a copy of the license, but you will get the pertinent data.

After you get some free data, before you pay anything, don’t forget to try Google. Frequently, you can get addresses and telephone numbers through Google for nothing.

But use the commercial public records databases for the free information they provide to narrow your search results and provide new directions to guide your search.

Many public records search sites offer background checks for several times the cost of a simple address and phone number check.  Most are legitimate, useful sites, a few are not.

Of course, the honest ones are offering what seems like quite a bit more information for public records background checks, over a simple name and address request.  Is it worth the cost?

Well, maybe.  But, certainly not if it’s a scam site.  There are things you watch out for to tell the difference.

First, look at the information they are offering. Some of it may be valuable to you, and since that information would be difficult for you to dig up on your own, it would certainly be worth the price, if you need it.

But, the information you might want only covers a few items, while the list of data you are being offered has quite a few more items on it, very likely information that isn’t really worth the extra cost.

So, weigh that cost against the what the value of that information is to you, then decide.  For some, it’s a bargain.  For others, maybe more than they really need.

But, if it is something you need, you also ought to be aware of scam operations.  Some shady sites are just out to get your money.  Here are some tips on how to avoid them.

Avoiding Public Records Background Check Scams

Most of the People Search Enginges offer legitimate services for reasonable prices, but some are completely misleading.

Usually, you just enter the names, addresses or phone numbers of the person you are looking for and you get a list of names that may or may not contain the the person you are looking for.

You look over the list which provides FREE information on the city, age and possible relatives of people with the name you’re looking for. You should not be required to pay anything for this list at this point. All information provided in that initial list is free.

However, the critical information that you want is usually not provided and is not free. You pay a small, very reasonable price to get the missing information on that list, the actual phone numbers and addresses.

When you pay that fee, you get all the missing information, usually the phone numbers and street addresses, for the whole list, not just one person on the list. That is because you still don’t know for sure if the person you seek is on that list or not, so you get the whole list, usually for ten bucks or less. That’s a reasonable cost for the convenience of using the huge databases provided by honest Public Records People Search engine sites. 

For public records background check scam sites, even fifty cents is too much.  But, once you get hooked by these sites, you’re going to be charged ten times that.  Watch out for these guys!

There have been many complaints against companies that pull stunts like telling you that the person you seek is in their database and charge a fee up front before you see any information at all. Does that sound like something you want to do? You have no information at all, no city information, no age information, no possible relatives, nothing.

How can that site tell you they have your target person and then charge you before you see any proof. You don’t even know at that point if the site you’re using has access to any database at all.

Another give-away that identifies a scam site is their prices. They promise you the moon for only about three or four times the cost from legitimate sites. 

But, don’t confuse the cost of a background search offered by legitimate sites with the price of merely obtaining phone numbers and addresses. Obviously, background searches cost more, usually around $25 to $40 or more.

Don’t pay scam sites that want money up front after they pretend to do a search for you, then come back telling you they found your person, but don’t show you anything. You should get a list of names of possible targets that might contain the person you are looking for, but there is a lot of FREE information on that list to help you decide whether your target person is on the list or not, before you pay for the final bits of information.

That is what the legitimate sites mean by a free search. Obviously, the honest services can’t provide their services for nothing, there is a cost to those business to actually put together their huge databases and to run the business.

But, they are still legitimately giving you a lot of free information before you pay their small fee at the end of your search efforts.

You are indeed getting a lot of good information for free to help you track down the people you are looking for. Use that information intelligently before you pay anything and the cost of your investigation will be well worth the convenience of using the pay databases.

There are lots of highly useful and legitimate public records people search engines to choose from. Use them all to find the ones most useful for you and avoid the scammers. Use your head and the scam operators should be easy to spot.

A great tip when searching for old friends is to use age as one of your search parameters.  Here are a  few tips on how to do it.

Using age in doing a people search age research effort is a great advantage in separating your target individual from a long list of people with the same or similar names.

Not all public records people search  sites include text boxes to enter age or a birth date, so pick one that offers these filters.

All kinds of search parameters are offered online to get information about people you might be looking for.

You can do reverse phone number searches to match a name and address to the phone number of someone who just dialed your number.

You can people search age, by city, state, country, maiden names, cell phone search and birth date. All of these “filters” can help you narrow down your searches, so you’re not looking through lists of hundreds of people at a time.

Public Records People Search Age

You can do email searches, white page searches and yellow page searches.  You can find court proceedings, marriage licenses, real estate holdings and criminal records. But, most of the time, you just want and the address and phone number of someone you’ve lost track of.

I’ve never had much luck myself looking for email addresses, but you might get lucky. Try it. Many people search locators offer email search, reverse phone number searches and many other personal parameters.

I’ve also not had much luck with official city and state search offerings.  You’d think these would be a goldmine of information, but I find them typically hard to use and not much help. Far too time consuming.

I wanted to send a birthday card to someone I hadn’t seen or heard from for over forty years. After narrowing down my search by using various public records people search sites I had finally located the person I was looking for. Using a people search engine that had a birth date text box, I entered the date
that I remembered, knowing it was probably wrong.

I did know the month was right and the year, but I was unsure of the day, so I just made up a day. The people search age result list told me the date was wrong and informed me that the date was ignored in the search
results.

What? Hey, that was good information!

By, telling me the date was wrong, I knew, of course, that that they must have the correct date on record. So, starting at day 1, I repeated the search, advancing the date each time, until the incorrect date error disappeared.  I then knew I had the correct birth date.

People Search by Age Adds Convienience

It’s best to resolve yourself to the notion that you may have to pay for information, but the cost is really minimal, considering the convenience the paid people search engines offer.

Spend a few hours searching and finding very little on cumbersome government sites.

After that experience, you’ll be glad to use the efficient commercial search engines and will probably consider the few dollars you spend at the end well worth the time and trouble saved.

These commercial sites have combined hundreds, if not thousands of databases and organized all that information into efficient data banks for your use. 

They deserve the few dollars they charge to let us use their search engines. 

It is an incredibly efficient and convenient service.

Google People Search Age

On top of that, you don’t have to pay a cent to play with engines, narrowing down your search, collecting useful data along the way, until you finally find what you’re looking for.  Not until then do you have to pay anything, and often you’ve found enough to do a free google people search to get an address and phone number.

But, you can get far more that from the commercial public records search engines. Even a complete background check can be had for very reasonable cost.

All of this cost me nothing. Using the people search engines to narrow and refine your searches ensures that when it comes time to pay for information that is held back in the “free searches”, that your target is highly
likely to be in the list you finally pay for.

And by that time, the cost is minimal. Whether there are fifty or only one or two people left on your list, the cost for addresses and phone numbers is only a few dollars.

If you need more information, such as background checks, naturally the cost will be more. But, if you spend some time doing the detective work without paying anything, the final cost for your People Search Age efforts will be for exactly the information you’re looking for, not for background information on a list of strangers.

Check out the various public records people search sites to find those that let you put in age or date information for your people search age research.

If you got here searching for a specific name and address or name & address and phone number, sorry we don’t have any of that.  But we might be able to help you find it.

The best way we know to find missing people, usually folks you haven’t been in contact with for a long time, sometimes decades, is to use the commercial, people search engine sites.

Using the huge databases of these pay search engines is your best bet for locating someone. 

Some searchers are put off at the aspect of paying for what you used to be able to get for free by looking in the phone book. 

But, don’t let that ancient notion stop you from using modern, technical wizardry that didn’t even exist way back then.

Twenty years ago, you’d be pretty much out of luck trying to contact people who could e anywhere in the world, when all you had, as far as modern technical gadgetry, was a telephone and a local telephone book.

So, don’t leave yet, we have some useful hints to help you find what you’re looking for.

First, Check Out the People Search Engines

You wont have to pay anything until you after you find some interesting and helpful information and maybe not even then. You can use the people search engines for free to collect a lot of information to help you narrow down your search. It’s actually fun to find things you would never have thought to look for when looking through the initial free search results lists.

Use Information You Already Have

Maybe you’ve already got a name, a phone number an address or just a hunch.

If you have an exact, correctly spelled name you can likely get an address, if it is listed, just from typing the phone number into Google, as you might have done to get here.

But, what you get may not be the person you’re looking for, if you’re not sure of the phone number to begin with. Check the various people search engines. You don’t have to pay until you get a lot more information
than you might not have possession of now and may not to pay even then.

For instance, you can collect a whole list of people with a particular last name and variations on first names and middle initials. If you don’t know the middle initial you are likely to find one in the lists you get for free.

Use Age and Middle Initials

Do you know the person’s approximate age? If so many of the people search engines will show age  information which can narrow down your list considerably. Obviously, so will State and City information. if
you have that, use it.

Usually, the only thing you will wind up paying for is the final name address and phone information, but that will likely cost you only a couple of bucks. And, by the time you pay, you can be fairly certain you have narrowed your search sufficiently with the free information you’ve collected that your target is on that final list.

Don’t Pay Until You Have To

And frequently, you won’t have to. But, don’t pay for anything right away, use the people search engines to collect information you may not have. There are a lot of clues in the result lists to garner additional
information.

Maybe You’ll Get Lucky: Try This

Pay only at the end of your research. But, once you reach that point, try a google search using this format:

First MI Last, city, state, zip.

If you don’t have all of that, use what you have.  If you’re lucky, you’ll get up to date name addresses and phone number information for free.

Looking to find someone?

You need to know a few things to help you accomplish the task to find people for free successfully.

You should understand first off, that you probably won’t. 

You may be able to gather some of the data you need without paying every now and then, when you get lucky.

But, most of the time you won’t get all that you want for nothing, except maybe when your target is listed in the white pages of your local telephone book.
 
On the other hand, you will be able to collect a lot of information regarding the person your looking for completely free of charge.

Just get used to the idea that you will probably have to pay a few bucks to get the final data, address and phone numbers, for the privilege and opportunity of using the the commercial,  public-records databases.

To Find People for Free is Great, But Are Paid Sites Worth The Fee?

Finding people with whom you have a history is very fulfilling, whether it’s free or not.  Sure, it’s a lot of fun making friends on Facebook, but it’s not the same as getting in touch with people you have known for years, even decades.

The more time goes by, the more you have in common with old friends or just people you went to school with. Finding people again, whether you find people for free or pay a few bucks for their phone number, to reminisce over old times is really rewarding.

Social sites on the Internet provide an opportunity to find old friends, but if the people you are looking for are not members of Classmates, Facebook, My Space or others, which is frequently the case, then of course, that easy method of contact won’t work for you.

But, there are other ways, sites that will provide you with contact information for a fee, the Pubic Records Search Engine sites. These sites for finding people for free, or almost free, as the case may be, are sort of like using a telephone book as people did years ago.

Find People for Free on Public Search Sites

But, the public records search sites available today have put together vast databases of information pulled together from many sources offering far more extensive searching than is available from “white pages” telephone-book resources.

A lot of commercial people search sites advertise the service to find people for free, and while there is certain sense in which that is true, in the long run, phone number or address you information you may require will not be available from the “free” portion of your search efforts.

In other words, you will get a lot of useful information for free, but you likely have to pay a few dollars for withheld information, such as telephone numbers and address.

On the other hand, the cost is minimal, for that information and the ease of use of the “find people for free” commercial people search engines, plus all the “free” help in narrowing your search results is well
worth the small fee.

For what people search sites offer in database resources and search power, it’s not only a bargain it’s a pleasure. An argument could be made that all the information commercial sites make available can be found elsewhere on line, but, finding it is different story.

You would have to plow through more than several national, city and state government sites to find the persons you are for, which is tedious at best.  Additionally, the information for the people you trying to find is distributed over many different sites residing in who knows how many different databases.  Finding those sites, each with it’s own unfamiliar page layout and navigation system can be a nightmare.

Commercial people search sites have gathered millions of names, addresses and other census type information from databases all over the country.  You don’t have visit ten different sites to find people for free, if you can find them at all.

Find People for Free is Really Finding Information for Free

There is no question the few dollars a commercial site charges to get that information all in one place is well worth it. And if you want to pay a little more, you can order background checks and other services if that’s what you need.

Also keep in mind that in addition to the convenience, when you use a commercial people search engine service, you will get a whole lot of useful information as you go along, narrow your search results to find your target person.

So during the initial part of your investigation, you are, in effect, using the the commercial sites for absolutely free. You will be finding a lot of information without paying a dime for it.

And the bottom line is that conducting this type of investigation searching is enjoyable, even fun. You will often find yourself going off on interesting trails, running down pieces of information you stumbled on purely by chance.

Public Records Searching: What Else Needs Saving

When doing searches for people, you will collect a lot of extraneous information in pursuit of the final information that you need.

In tracking down your target, you will come across many addresses, often in different states, along with multiple names, including maiden names, other surnames from possible multiple marriages as well as the names of possible relatives.

It is greatly to your advantage to keep track of all this information as you pursue your search. Each piece of information that you save has connected with it many other things that you need to remember, beginning with where you put all that stuff after you “saved” it.

You need to take notes. Jot down notes about any possibly useful information before you move on to the next name and address search, because it is almost  inevitable that you will want to come back to that previous search as you acquire more information that suddenly makes other information worth looking at again.

Save it as you go to avoid trying to find it again.

Everyone has a place where they save the names, addresses and phone numbers of all their friends, relatives, work acquaintances, professional associations, and other important people, maybe even a movie star or two. Don’t they? Sometimes, I’m not so sure. My wife, for example, is always asking me for someone’s phone number, if that someone is not one of her cell-phone “Faves”.  She uses a manual system for those “other’ numbers.

You Need A Database Program

I use the computer. But, I use an application that allows me to store all the information I need about every name in my list. Sometimes, I need to be reminded about why a name is even in the list.

Oh yeah, I remember now why I have that guy’s name, address and phone number, he’s that nice guy I met at the seminar who told me to call him anytime I needed help with my portfolio. In fact, I see here in my notes that the information he gave me at the seminar turned a nice profit for me. I think I’ll give him a call this afternoon.

I remember where I save names and addresses, because I use my name and address system every day. If it has anything at all to do with names, phone numbers, addresses, phone calls, important dates or appointments, and the supporting information associated with any of those things, I know it’s in my name and address list management software.

Well, most of the time it is, if I didn’t get careless and forget to put it there.

An important first step is to train yourself to save results of your public court records, people search information as go along.

Investigating public court records is a research process, use research strategies in finding the persons you are looking for.

You can add to what you have already discovered as you find information.

Addresses, personal information, telephone numbers, possible relatives, all searching is an iterative process.

But there are succesful techniques searching public-records that you can put in place to make the process easier and more organized.

When looking for people, use the people search engines and take advange of their huge, efficient databases.

Save The Court Records Information As You Find It

Don’t use just one when starting out, try several of them. You will find one better than another for your particular purpose. All of them return lists of individuals that you can sort and filter according to useful variables, e.g., name, city and state, if you have such any of that information handy in the beginning, or as you find it.

Remember, as you find it save the useful clues to organize your thoughts and focus your investigation of public-records search results. People searching is actually fun, but keep organized and stay focused.

You will frequently get long lists names if the person you want has a common name. Several things are useful in narrowing down that list. Middle initials and age or birth date in the engines that offer these searcing options are very handy to use. Make use of the people finder search engines that have age, birth date and middle name or initial text boxes.

Can You Find People For Free?

Well, sometimes, but don’t count on it.  Most public records sites afford free people search, at least in the initial stages. Don’t begin by giving up your credit card data,for two reasons. First you may get a long list that contain your target name anywhere. You don’t want to pay for that. Secondly, you’re not only losing money, but you’re wasting time. Do some research first.

You can do a lot of investigating before you finally want to pay the detail. If you use common sense, keep a few records, you may not have to pay anything . In any case, don’t pay until you are fairly certain you will have your target on the list.

If you’re looking for a girl you knew in high school, or even a married woman who you lost touch with years ago, she may have a new married name. More than several people search engine sites enable you to search marriage license indexes. Use the free search first to see if you find her maiden name with a likely date. The free search will not provide her new name, you will most likely have to pay for that. But once you have it, you can use the other peoplefinder search engines to locate your target.

Find Her Maiden Name

The marriage information will also provide the husband’s first name, which will be useful in narrowing down your search. Again, use all the information you’ve saved, both spouses ages, date of marriage, birth dates, age and possible relative listings when those are given.

To find one long lost friend, I entered her last name into a marriage license search and got two hits, one for a groom and one for a bride. Obviously, I was searching for the bride, so I could safely ignore the guy. No information was given though, except the last name I had entered, so in order to find her married name at this point, I had to pay for the marriage license information. You won’t get a copy of the license, but you will get the pertinent data.

After you get some free data, before you pay anything, don’t forget to try Google.  Not always, but occasionally, if you’r lucky, you can get addresses and telephone numbers through Google for no cost at all.