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["Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com>]

If a person is stayed on the up-and-up, paid their taxes, etc, they are not too hard to find.  Searching most public databases, such as the ones already listed, will find them most times.  Searching the Internet for databases of the like will lead you to more potential hits.

Where you're going to have problems is if the person you are searching for has left the country or, worse, gone homeless.  Homeless people are not easy to track, especially if they end up homeless somewhere where there are cold winters.  Chances are they went somewhere warm and more accommodating like San Diego or St. Petersburgh, FL.  Anyway, homeless people are darn hard to find.

Greg

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Mark Turner <jmarkturner AT gmail.com> wrote:

I usually start at Switchboard.Com. A query will return a list of
persons matching the name and list where each lives. Clicking on the
"find more information about ..." link (the Intelius.com link), will
bring up a list of the records available for this person.

It used to be that Intelius would show the ages of the people matching
your request, which is a great way to narrow down your search. I don't
see this in the results of their freebie queries, though.

If that person's deceased, you can check the Social Security Death
Index, offered on Ancestry.com:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

Good luck!

Mark
www.markturner.net

Scott Lundgren wrote:
> I think I'm going to test the limits of crowd sourcing this time and
> its the reason I love this list.  For a legal matter I need to find a
> relative that hasn't contacted anyone in the family in 20 years. The
> goal is not to stalk a celebrity, find out about a high school friend,
> or track down a neighborhood vandal. I need to know alive/dead, an
> address and perhaps a phone number.
>
> did you use a web based person information search service ?
> what were the pro's & con's of using it ?
> did you use a non-web service (ie: P.I. ,etc) ?
> what were the costs ?
>
> Feel free to contact me off list.
>
> - SL
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