Locating People

These resources can be used to locate the home address and telephone number of people, or their e-mail addresses. Some resources are capable of both. In addition, there are resources for ordering more intensive searches for skip tracing and asset location information.

FAQ on How to find people's E-mail addresses

Home address/telephone resources

Switchboard
The best search tool I could find for home address/telephone information

International Telephone Directories
World-wide directories; for U.S., it has links to Switchboard and others

Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Search
Searchable death records and marriage indexes

WorldWide Directory Service
Very slow and didn't seem to work well, but a world-wide resource.

Both home and e-mail address resources

WhoWhere?
Contains both e-mail and home address information

Yahoo! People Search
Contains both e-mail and home address information

InfoSpace
Contains both e-mail and home address information

Four11
Contains both e-mail and home address information

Where Did They Go
A searchable database listing people and companies who changed their name, address, phone number, email account, or URL. Nice in concept, but none of my test searches were successful.

E-mail addresses only

Internet Address Finder
A searchable index for e-mail addresses. I ran a search for my e-mail address and was successful. However, a search for my uncle, a professor at a Big-Ten university, was unsuccessful. The listing, if found, includes the person's organization (E.g., George Pike - University of Pittsburgh) and a link to it's website.

OKRA
Keyword searchable index of e-mail addresses

Usenet Addresses Service (MIT)
Keyword searchable index of e-mail addresses

Off-line resources for more intensive searching

Tracernet
Fee-based service for more sophisticated asset searching and skip tracing. Information is ordered and provided via the home page, but is not stored nor accessible through the web.

Find-a-Friend
Fee-based service for more sophisticated searching. Information is ordered and provided via the home page, but is not stored nor accessible through the web.

WebGator
Interesting collection of links to vital statistics, licensing bureaus, addoption resources and similar information.

Personal Home Page Directories by Country - searches for WWW sites (but didn't find mine)

Where Did They Go
A searchable database listing people and companies who changed their name, address, phone number, email account, or URL. Nice in concept, but none of my test searches were successful.

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