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Work/The Wk Place
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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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.
Radaris
Search for names to get city/state they've
lived, social media info,
resumes, ages,
etc.
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
Arrests, Mugshots, Criminal & Civil Records | Social Media |
Cell #s, Photos, Emails & Other Contact Information | Marital Status (Single? Married? Divorced?) |
REVERSE SEARCHES on Cell #s, Emails, Usernames, Photos & Addresses | Newspaper Articles |
Assets (Homes, Boats, Planes...) | Name (Search By First or Last) |
Age, DOB, Relatives, Employment, Prior Places Lived | Neighbors |
Bankruptcies/Bad Debt | Photos |
Business, Employment, Profession Or Certification | Property (Real, Personal, Intellectual) |
Campaign Contributions | County, State City or Zip |
Dating Profiles | Salaries: Gov Employees, Non Profits & Officers of Public Companies (Exact $ AMT) |
Death Records | Intellectual Property (Websites, IP Address Patents, ©,® and ™) |
Friends, Associates & Relationships | Voter Records |
Misc. Public Records (Classmates, Photos, Military, Genealogies, Rare Names...) |
See also
How To Background His Marital Status (Sleuth For The Truth)
Is Your Spouse Cheating On You? (Christian-SOS)
Do Your Own Free Background Checks
(Sleuth For The Truth)
Free Youtube videos on do it yourself background checks. Find out about their
bankruptcies, felonies, misdemeanors, mugshots, arrests, convictions, and more.
Verify if someone is telling the truth about their age, their past and their
property. Also learn the things you never thought to ask but really need to
know. Good for singles on the dating scene, small business owners, investors,
landlords, roommates, single moms and parents.
Name, Chat Groups & The Search
Engines
Using AI
For Free Instant Background Checks (Fun But Scary)
Find out what the
Internet says about you or others using simple questions and the power of AI!
Best to put in a name plus other identifiers like occupation or a business or a
city or state. The AI then plunges through the Internet and extracts a synopsis
based on free data sources like Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn company webpages and
more. Try it out on yourself! For how to use, see this
Sleuth For The Truth Blog!
Google for an Exact Phrase Using Quotes (Sleuth For The Truth)
Learn the
pros and cons of Googling with quotes.
Find Or Background By
First Name,
Last 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.
https://webmii.com/
Search by first and last name to find people on various websites. To narrow your
results,
hit the + button and add key words like
attorney or their city or state.
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.
PeopleSearchNow
Use name to get Age,
Companies they may own,
Phone Numbers,
Relatives and a list of Addresses.
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.
Radaris
Search for names to get city/state they've
lived, social media info,
resumes, ages,
etc.
Finding Women Who Have
Married Or Divorced
(Consumer-SOS)
How to find women who have changed their names
People Search Advice Plus Links (Consumer-SOS.com)
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.
Real Property (Homes, Land,
Buildings, Etc.)
Real
Property (Consumer-SOS)
Find out who owns what & where. Can even do a name
search for homes in other states!
Private Corporations They Might Own (Consumer-SOS)
Search by individual or
company name to see who owns it. Companies might have land, equipment or other
assets.
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Personal Property (Cars, Equipment, Pensions, Stock...)
Personal Property & Fixtures
(Consumer-SOS)
Boats, planes, cars,
equipment, what they've bought on e-Bay. Also see what else they own
through criminal and bankruptcy records!
Salaries-Federal
& State Employees (Consumer-SOS)
Some
states even list the $ amount in their retirement funds!
Public Corporations
Look up
companies, officers, their stock & salaries
and what else they own.
By Their Unclaimed Money/Property
(Consumer-SOS)
Gives you the last known address of those people with unclaimed money or
property.
Includes pensions.
By Their
License Plate or Tickets (Consumer-SOS)
Need to warn or report an aggressive or dishonest driver who thinks they're
anonymous? Find their name and contact information through their license plate
(which may also reveal the car they own as
well as month of birth).
Back To People Search Index
Intangible Property (Websites,
Patents, ©,® and ™)
Their Intellectual Property (Consumer-SOS)
Find out all about their websites,
copyrights,
trademarks, brand names and
international patents.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property
(Consumer-SOS)
Get free email alerts of possible
infringement so you can stop others from using your research, trademark or
invention. The free tools below will send you an email alert or at least give
you a one-stop link to check for updates.
Back To People Search Index
Other Places To Find Property Records
Public Records In Georgia
Good for finding info on court records, liens, real property, etc.
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.
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.
To Search What Someone Has Bought, Sold or Given Away
Searching On Ebay
By
Their License Plate or Tickets
Once you identify them, encourage them to make nice with this friendly letter
below. Dear (last name), at x date and time your
vehicle was seen doing... at x location. I have submitted your name,
address and the make and model of your vehicle to the local police department.
Your license plate has also been
reported to
the following bad driver websites so others can
furnish this to the police the next time you try a similar stunt. And remember
YOU ARE NOT ANONYMOUS. Good day.
Violations in Butts, Harris, Jasper Madison, Murry, Nerwton, Oconee, Schley,
Terrel, Upson, Walton Counties
To search all counties above, leave
county blank and search by last and first name. Or, choose county and search by
last name.
License Plate Lookup (Costs $)
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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.
Life Insurance
or Annuity Locator (Free Request Form)
The NAIC Life Policy Locator can
help locate a life insurance policy or annuity contract of a deceased family
member or close relationship. Requires a free sign up and then to fill out a
form with the name, SS#, date of birth & death and other information of the
deceased person. For more, see
FAQs.
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.
Back To People Search Index
Age Plus!
READ THIS FIRST!!!!
Search by first and last name ONLY!. Or add a state where they
live. DO NOT check the boxes for age, gender, middle name OR YOU WILL MISS
RECORDS!
DOB &_Marital_Status | States & Cities Lived, College, Employment, Relatives |
Addresses, Emails, Phone #s/Relatives |
Find Their County (plug in their city) |
DOB, Marital Status &
Relatives
In Georgia, you can find their month of their birth on their car tag sticker.
Age Calculator - How Old Am I?
Enter in DOB of someone for their exact age as of today. Good for age lookups.
Marital Status
(Consumer-SOS)
Single? Married? Divorced?
DOB By Voting Records
(Consumer-SOS)
Almost 40 states of free voter records-often with their
DOB!
MyLife.com
Often provides Date of Birth
but often must bypass their main screen. Enter in a
name or email
address. Works best for yahoo emails. Often wrong on political party affiliation or
marital status.
FamilySearch.org
See people's
DOB with free sign up (no need to fill out
your own family tree). Once logged in, go to Search
and then Records
to look up subject, maybe add a state. Should give
places lived and DOB! Can also search by name
and birth year, but not so accurate.
FamilyTreeNow
Can
give DOB, employment, middle name, addresses, phone numbers and
relatives.
Pretty extensive. Even found my elusive boss by her maiden name. Lists
a job of mine, my DOB, plenty of my prior addresses and relatives.
XLEK (Birthdates, Addresses, Phone #s,
Emails)
While it's hit or
miss here, you can hit the jackpot with 20 years of free address info, plus full
date of birth and sometimes even the companies
they own. Ages are not
always accurate but it listed my addresses from law school and college! Scroll
down the full page so you don't miss anything. Plug what you find into Google.
Sometimes tells you the car they bought, whether they visited the whitehouse
and more!
DOB
Through 60 Million Voter Records
Search by name or name and state. Information varies
but you usually get either a year or date of birth.
Says it covers Alaska, Arkansas,
Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Michigan,
Nevada, North Carolina,
Ohio,
Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah,
Washington. However,
if you can't find it sometimes you can find the person by going to these
sites individually. Also Google voter
registration search with the name of your
state.
Age, Party
Affiliation & Address of Voters (CT, FL, NV, NY, OH, PA)
Just enter
their first and last name in their Voter or Email Search box. Choose your
state and see what info they gave to the US government! Ages most accurate,
address and partial affiliations subject to change.
Arrests, Mugshots, Sex Offenders, Criminal & Civil
Records (Consumer-SOS)
Their mugshot or sex
offender records often list a DOB! And
these records are far more common than you think!
Age, States, Employment
National Lookup For Government Salaries: State, County & City (Missing Records but Still Good)
IDCrawl by Full Name
Use their
full name
(no quotes) to get a photo,
resume, social media, school, the websites
they own and maybe even their
usernames.
Works best with
rare names
or you'll get too many hits. Got me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Veripages (USA only)
May pull up
age with Facebook or Linkedin
resume info or link to DOB on My Life.
Search by city or state if the name is a common one. Then click on
VIEW FULL PROFILE to get their name, age, and
sometimes their employer or resume. AVOID CLICKING ON "DETAILS"
(takes you to a pay site).
Radaris
(USA only)
Search for names, ages, addresses and phone numbers. Good for tracking
professionals-often lists work history and
companies they've owned. Click on
the person you want or scroll to the bottom of the page for even more.
Compiles news on them.
Recruit'em X-Ray
Search of LinkedIn Employee Profiles
Confirm the
person's job title or company or find others with the same job title.
Enter the “Country” and Job Title” only. In the “Key Words” field you
can add the the person's name and company if known. DO NOT USE “Current
Employer” field as it will miss things.
Age & Maybe Employment (USA Only)
FamilyTreeNow
(USA Only)
Can
give DOB, employment, middle name, addresses, phone numbers and relatives.
Pretty extensive. Even found my elusive boss by her maiden name. Lists
a job of mine, my DOB, plenty of my prior addresses and relatives.
FastPeopleSearch
(USA Only)
Retrieves emails,
the subject's companies, old phone numbers and
cell phone #s. It had plenty of the wrong ones but also the right
ones mixed in. Google everything for more clues. Use OKcaller.com and
spydialer.com to reverse lookup who owns each phone number and verify if it's a
cell. To send an email to the subject, send it to yourself with all the other
email adresses in the BCC field. The one where your subject responds is
obviously the correct email!
USA People Search
(USA Only)
Learn their age, their middle name and the
last 1-5 places where they lived. Then look
them up in the appropriate state.
PeopleSearchNow
(USA Only)
Age, Middle
Name, Company Relatives Addresses, Phone Numbers
Age, Emails, Addresses & Phone #s/Relatives
Cyberbackgroundchecks.com
(USA Only)
Excellent to find ages, relatives,
Cell #s,
email addresses
and physical
addresses. Addresses go back over 20 years and has reverse lookups
for phone and emails!
FastPeopleSearch (USA Only)
Retrieves emails,
the subject's companies, old phone numbers
and cell phone #s.
It had plenty of the wrong ones but also the right
ones mixed in. Google everything for more clues. Use OKcaller.com and
spydialer.com to reverse lookup who owns each phone number and verify if
it's a cell. To send an email to the subject, send it to yourself with all
the other email adresses in the BCC field. The one where your subject
responds is obviously the correct email!
Excellent For
Addresses &
Landline Phone #s (findpeoplesearch.com)
Also may reveal current
emails.Often gets relatives wrong.
Phone Numbers and Poss Defunct Businesses, Addresses Too
(truepeopesearch.com)Old Domain Registrations
& Corporations
Can get
emails, physical addresses
and phone #s from
old domain registrations when the new one was paid to be private
Got my prior companies no longer in existence, plus address and phone number
plus a valid email address, plus 20 years of address info.Takes a while to load.
Find Their
Current Address (Blog By Sleuth For The Truth)
Find someone's physical
address and confirm you got the right place to send them a happy lawsuit, all
for free!
MyRelatives.com
Emails, age, phone numbers,
Businesses owned, addresses (addresses and
dates often mixed up (may have current email buried among old or wrong emails).
Age, Addresses Phone Numbers and Relatives
(advancedbackroundchecks.com)
After you click on the right person, "See Full Info" to get their
current and
prior phone numbers, addresses, prior addresses and sometimes their company.
Then plug these addresses and phone #s into Google for even more!
Top or "current" address is probably not their
current address.
XLEK (Birthdates, Addresses, Phone #s,
Emails)
While it's hit or
miss here, you can hit the jackpot with 20 years of free address info, plus full
date of birth and sometimes even the companies they own. Ages are not
always accurate but it listed my addresses from law school and college! Scroll
down the full page so you don't miss anything. Plug what you find into Google.
Sometimes tells you the car they bought, whether they visited the whitehouse
and more!
Melissa Lookups (Personator People
Search)
Best for name searches only. Do not use
this general screen to search for phone numbers only. Doesn't do well for
email reverse lookups either Name lookup may give
address, birth month and year. Tells who the owner of their residence
is. (if it's not them it means they rent)
Was able to find my mom's current address when she
had been there for just two years. After a few lookups you may be required
to sign up for more free lookups. It's worth it.
They give you at lease
a dozen every month, maybe more!
FamilyTreeNow
Can
give DOB, employment, middle name, addresses, phone numbers and relatives.
Pretty extensive. Even found my elusive boss by her maiden name. Lists
a job of mine, my DOB, plenty of my prior addresses and relatives.
The White Pages
Returns a
"current" address and
phone number, and maybe who they live with.
Address may not be current so verify by using government and professional
licensing records.
Rare Names: Find Their Address,
Phone # & Age (Google Search Within
Peoplebyname.com)
In
Google, change the name to the one you want and press enter. If the website
gives you a page of the same last name, search by first name by pressing the
Ctrl button and F on your keyboard. Then type in only the first name and hit
enter to get there quickly. This resource doesn't have everybody but it
gives a lot of good data if you find them. (It's harder to search for common
names as you cannot select a state to narrow down your leads.)
PeekYou
(Good for Rare Names, or When You Can Weed Out Dupes)
Compiles social information as well as age and
relatives.
Radaris
(Good for Rare Names, or When You Can Weed Out Dupes)
Search for names, ages, addresses and phone numbers. Good for tracking
professionals-often lists work history and companies they've owned. Click on
the person you want or scroll to the bottom of the page for even more.
Compiles news on them.
County
Lookup By City (National)
Plug in the city and state to get their county. Then search that county's court records.
Back To People Search Index
Find Assets Or Asset Holders
Through
Their:
Real Property (Who Owns What & Where) | Relatives & Associates |
Personal Property & Fixtures (Boats, Planes, Cars, Ins. Policies, Equipment...) | Intellectual Property (Websites, Patents, ©,® and ™) |
Private Corporations (By Individual or Company Name) | Foundations & Non-Profits (By Individual or Company) |
Public Corporations (Look up Companies, Officers, Their Stock & Salaries) | Life Events (Bankruptcies, Lawsuits) |
Government Employment (Salaries & Retirement Funds) | Grants & Sub-Award Recipients |
Rare Names (Finding Their Assets with Powerful Tools) | See How To Locate Assets (Sleuth For The Truth) |
See Finding Friends, Associates & Hidden Relationships
Real Property (Who Owns What & Where)
International Assets, Companies, Court Documents (Best for Non USA)
This
vast archive of current and historic databases, documents, leaks and
investigations helps journalists across the world to see connections, find
stolen funds, spot political influence, and unveil corruption.
After initial search, you can do a sub search within
the retrieved documents.
(Also can use advance search to the right of the search box.)
Do They Really
Own That House and If So, Are They Married? (50 States & DC)
Find the owner behind the
address, or search
by name to see if own property. Select the city or county and state where
the property is located. Note,
wives will often be listed on the deed along with their husbands.
Property Value-Trulia (All 50 states & DC)
Enter in their address to see photos of the
outside, the actual cars parked
in front or in back, and sometimes the inside
too, plus get an estimate of
its worth. Can also use to verify the value of other houses in the area.
Redfin
(All 50 states & DC)
Do they
still have that antique Ming Vase by the fireplace?
Type in an address to see photos of
houses, their for sale price/value, and
sometimes even pics of the rooms and furniture inside.
Includes inside views of NYC apartments. See also
StreetEasy for NYC and NJ Apartments and
prices, video tours, etc.
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".
Deeds, Mortgages & Liens in 12 GA Counties
Pulls up images of real estate
documents in various GA counties.
You may have to pay if you look in "All
Counties" but the other sites should still be free.
Counties inlcude:
Bibb, Cherokee, Cobb, Coweta, Dade, Dougherty,
Fayette, Forsyth, Henry, Houston, Muscogee,
and Whitfield,
Real Property Lookup
In 13 States At Once (qPublic.net)
States include:
AR, CO, GA, IL, IA, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, OK, SC, SD.
Note: this will miss some counties in each state,
but it's all in one spot!
Enter a first and last name
or even just the street address (no state or
Zip) to see where the person has property. If too many hits, can add
further info via an
Advanced Search.
Value Of Real Property And Owner Info (30 GA Counties Online)
Choose county and type in a name or address. Good if
can't find GA deed or other docs in the national look sites.
Cobb County
Deeds/Property Records (Georgia)
Pulls up images of their property
records.
Dekalb County Property Taxes (Georgia)
Search by name for owner's
property taxes, look for link to "Additional Property information." Didn't see
actual deeds but reveals he book page for where located within the county
office. Also has appeal history, owners, taxes paid and taxes appealed.
Gwinnett County Property Taxes (Georgia)
Look up by owner, to find value,
address and assessments. Hit property report to get a PDF of assessed values.
Deeds, Mortgages & Other Real Estate Docs (Most States)
Click on your
state to search for images of recorded documents.
New York City Property Records-Free
(Acris)
See who owns the apartment, house, condo or co-op. Shows the deed and other
documents!
Criminal & Civil Records (Consumer-SOS)
Any reference to property can
lead to assets.
Property
Records (GA Superior Court Clerk)
PAY SITE. BOO! HISS! HISS!. 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 without givnigthem your personal email use mailinater.
See also Property (Consumer-SOS)
Back To Locating Assets
Back To People Search Index
Corporations (Worldwide Lookup by Individual or Company Name)
United States Companies, Owners &
Officers
Search by company name or the name of an individual.
Worldwide Companies Owners & Officers
Search by company name or the name of an individual.
United States Company
Searches
Georgia 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.
Search The US and Abroad All At Once! (Open Corporates)
Plug in
the person's name for
the company they're connected with.
Or search by
company name
to get the owners and officers. Once you enter their name and hit Go, you
can drill down to a particular country or state.
Secretary Of States Office (All 50 States, Select Your State)
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.
Track Federal Grant and
Sub-Award Recipients (USA Only)
Has the company received money from the
US Government? Learn how much, from which agency and what it's for. (Hint, if
they're irresponsible, you now know where to whistleblow.)
Bizapedia
(Excellent)
Search by COMPANY for officers,
or search by PEOPLE
for the companies they own or are
associated with, even defunct companies. Also
has a TRADEMARK SEARCH (misses trademarks but OK).
Search nationwide (companies=assets) or locally.
Checkout where the business is incorporated
and whether it's been in many states. Then Google for
complaints or lawsuits. Once you have their
state, verify current officers with the local
Secretary Of States Office. Want a unique corporate name? Search nation-wide
to see if others already have it.
Dun & Bradstreet Business
Lookup (All 50 States)
Enter in a business
name. It will list revenue and locations. The revenues are often wrong
but you can see a company in various US states with addresses. It listed my
company "Sleuth For The Truth" in two locations (both were prior home addresses
of mine.)
Offshore Leaks Database
(US & Abroad)
Lookup by individual or
company name for
who’s behind 800,000 offshore companies and trusts from the
Panama
Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations. See also
how to use the db.
The ICIJ Offshore Database shows relationships and networks among people or
companies and offshore entities. Consider this database like a corporate
registry where you can check information about a company and the people who
played a role in that entity at a certain point in time. Roles include being a
director, a shareholder, a beneficial owner, a trustee, among others.
Corporation
Wiki
Enter in a person or corporate name
to learn of trademarks or incorporation. Not
good for showing current corporations, but gathers info from USPTO Dun &
Brandstreet, etc. Use to track assets/find companies when don't know name of
company or where it may be incorporated. Sometimes links people to prior jobs
rather than to any companies they actually owned.
Hoovers Info
on Businesses (US and Global if has a US Presence)
Tells you their name, address and phone number, what they do, their financials,
and who their competitors are.
Find A
Company's Suppliers & Manufacturers (Import Yeti)
Helps you know who to
subpoena when looking for assets.
Dirt Diggers Guide To
Strategic Corporate Research
Comprehensive links to company complaints,
and exploring a company's relatiionships including their shareholders,
subsidiaries, outside directors, creditors, suppliers, customers and franchises.
Companies Or Vehicles They've Owned
(Works Best for Rare Names)
Hit or miss. At bottom will sometimes list
the companies they own or are registered
agents for, along with the vehicles they've bought,
patent filings, etc.
Works best for rare names.
Track Federal Grant
and Sub-Award Recipients
Who got what money, from where and
when.
Search For Federal Prime Awards
or Sub-awards (Includes Company and Award Amounts)
On top right
select either Prime
or Sub-awards. On top left click on Keyword
search and search either by company name or
other numeric identifier such as a DUNS or UEI,
etc. Then choose which year or select all of
them. Then hit submit. to see how much $,
from who and what for. (Government fiscal year
begins in October). See an
example of what Sub-awards there were for
Cytec in the last 3 years.
Federal Contracts And
Federal Grants/Awards (Federal Procurement Data System)
Type in a
company name to see the federal contracts or federal
grants they've received in the last 30 years. Lists with
who, for how much and what it was for (see the
PSC and NAICS Codes). Want the most recent awards? Then go to Sort Order (right
hand side) choose "Descending" in the Sort Order Drop Box. and click on DATE
SIGNED. Or try sorting on the left hand side by government agency-see the top
ten federal customers. For example, you can find all Cytec contracts period, or
search for those only with the DOD or NASA.
HHS Recipient Search (USA)
The Health and Human Services (HHS)is the largest grant-making agency in
the US. Many of HHS grants are provided directly to
educational and community organizations, then given to people and
organizations who are eligible to receive funding.
SBA Paycheck
Protection Program Data Lookup (USA)
Which companies and non-profits
received Covid 19 paycheck protection funds from the federal government.
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See also
Find By The Company They Own (Consumer-SOS)
Open Corporates (Search
The US & Abroad-All at Once)
Plug in
the person's name for
the company they're connected with.
Or search by
company name to get the owners and officers.
May show they do business in more than one place. (point to where their
assets are!)
How To Use The Offshore Leaks Database Below (YouTube Video)
2 Min video
(middle of page) to help find assets & connections.
Offshore Leaks Database
(US & Abroad)
Lookup by individual or
company name for
who’s behind almost 800,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama
Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations. See also
how to use the db. The ICIJ Offshore Database shows relationships and networks among people or
companies and offshore entities. Consider this database like a corporate
registry where you can check information about a company and the people who
played a role in that entity at a certain point in time. Roles include being a
director, a shareholder, a beneficial owner, a trustee, among others.
Find A
Company's Suppliers & Manufacturers (Import Yeti)
Helps you know who to
subpoena when looking for assets.
The Global
Corporate Registration Database
Look up
officers or businesses in the US and other 32 countries. Gives address.
Good start for an asset search.
Can look up all jurisdictions at once. Claims
to have 80 million companies and 150 million officers in 100+ jurisdictions.
Aleph-International Assets, Companies,
Court Documents (Best for Non USA)
This vast archive of current and
historic databases, documents, leaks and investigations helps journalists across
the world to see connections, find stolen funds, spot political influence, and
unveil corruption. After initial search, you can do a
sub search within the retrieved documents.
(Also can use advance search to the right of the search box.)
International
Corporate Databases (20 Plus Countries)
Can't search all countries at
once.
Canada Federal Corporation Search
This database does NOT
include corporations created under financial legislation (such as financial
institutions, insurance companies or loan and trust companies) or those created
under provincial/territorial legislation or corporate legislation from another
jurisdiction. You can find corporations created under provincial/territorial
legislation by consulting
Canada MRAS Business
Registry Search
official registries of
Alberta, British Columbia, Corporations Canada,
Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. This service lets you search
across these registries at one time. Information from these registries may be
updated on a daily or monthly basis. We are working to add more registries. You
should check the source of the official registry for the most current
information. Information on financial institutions,
such as banks or insurance companies, is not part of this service.
UK Companies, Filings &
Officers (Companies House)
Enter company name, number or officer name.
UK Financial Services Register
Scroll to the bottom to search for firms or
individuals.
In the UK, nearly all financial service activities must
be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. You can search our Register
for firms and individuals and the activities firms have permissions for.
Open Ownership Register
(UK)
Who controls, influences, or benefits from a company? Put in
person's name and it will pull up their
birth year and
company they're associated with.
See also
www.ipo.gov.uk to search for a UK trademark.
UK Professional
and Licensing Sites (Verify their profession)
Searchable
membership directories which can often be
freely accessed to locate information about the members, their qualifications
and their disciplinary history. And where there are licenses, there are often
companies and assets.
Back To Locating Assets
Back To People Search Index
Public Corporations
(Look up Companies, Officers, Their Stock & Salaries)
Includes information regarding their
compensation in $ and stock as well as their stock trades and investments in other companies that
could affect director independence.
Salaries and other compensation often found in:
Schedule DEF 14A
(annual proxy statement),
Form 10-K,
(audited annual report), Form 8-K and
Registration statements
filed by the issuer.
SEC Text Search (Last 4 Years)
Easiest way to search. Change
subject's last name and
company and then press enter on your keyboard!
Can also change number of returns per page. Then search for last name within the
document usng control or command F.
You can also search without the company.
Trace the Stock Assets Sold or Bought from
Corporate Insiders
By law, high level employee insiders or 10%+ owners of
US publically traded companies must file a Form 4 covering their trades within
two business days. Look them up by name or stock
tickers. For greatest coverage choose FILING DATE of ALL DATES for
records back to 2008. To search for people by name go
to the INSIDER BOX within GENERAL and search last name first like this
Firestone Graham. For
Transaction Filings
can select purchase, sale or grant or check
them all. Set max results to 100.
Top Officers Salaries In
Publicly Trades Companies (US Only)
Fast and dirty search-gives select
years. Use other databases for more details.
Annual Reports
For Publically Traded Companies (Click on HTML)
May have the latest HTML version of their annual
report. Allows you to do a word search using CTRL F or Command F, i.e. search
for a last name of one of the officers. Annual report may list salaries or give
you the exact public form where such is listed. You can then look this up at the
SEC website.
How To Lookup Salaries for Non-Profits and Publlic Companies (Step By Step)
Personal Property & Fixtures
Boats | Planes |
Cars | Equipment, Insurance Polcies & Other Assets |
Boats & Boat Owners
Search by the boat name or name of the owner
to confirm ownership and value. Often you'll find out the make, model and boat
length as well as the owner's full name and address.
Coastal Boats & Boats On Great Lakes: 5 Plus Tons (National)
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.
National Search By
Boat Name (448,000 vessels)
Search by part of the boat
name and also the owner, but it won't work if boat name field left blank.
Get detailed vessel information on owner, hull identification number, hailing
port, boat length, year built, boat builder and more.
Georgia Boat Owners
Download a spreadsheet with the full names and addreses of all
boat owners
in a county along with the boat type, length, year and more. Had trouble when I
tried to download all counties but worked when I chose Fulton.
Canada Boat Owners
Can lookup by last name or boat name or a combination.
International Assets, Companies, Court Documents (Best for Non USA)
This
vast archive of current and historic databases, documents, leaks and
investigations helps journalists across the world to see connections, find
stolen funds, spot political influence, and unveil corruption.
After initial search, you can do a sub search within
the retrieved documents. (Also can use advance search to the right
of the search box.)
Cars
Whether to find info about the
owner or their asset. Note some states have the owner's county and birthdate
right on the license plate!
National
Stolen or Salvaged VIN Check (USA)
Free
check to see if vehicle reported as stolen or salvaged (heavily damaged) But
only if such was voluntarily reported.
US Name Lookup For Vehicles They Own
(Works Best for Rare Names)
Hit or miss: At bottom will sometimes list the US
companies they own or are registered agents for, along with the
vehicle they've bought, patent filings, when
they've visited the White House, etc. Never sure what will come up.
Vehicle
Make, Model & $ Val. by License Plate (Free-USA Only)
Select "Plate" and plug in
their license plate number for the make and model and value of their vehicle.
Good if need to report to the police or list as an asset. Photo displayed may be
a diffierent color vehicle of same make and model. For the driver's name, you'll
have to pay. See Backup site.
Use License Plate to
Obtain VIN For Free History Lookup (USA Only?)
Most people you're investigating are unlikley to
divulge their VIN, which is not visible from the outside of the car. But
with their license plate you can get their VIN.
And in some states, the license plate will already
have a decal on it with the driver's month of birth. If don't know their
name but know the address where the car is parked, use
reverse lookups to find their name. Also
try taking photos of the car, the license plate etc.
and upload to do a reverse image search on all your photos. It's a long
shot but it could turn up the name of a seller or buyer.
ISeeCars.com VIN Lookup (USA)
Searching with a VIN found nothing on my
current car but turned up accidents on my 1997
Honda! Plus they listed the recall list for that year, make and model. So make
sure to scroll down and click on "Accidents & Vehicle History."
MOT History (UK only)
Enter in a UK license plate for the color make and
model but no year. However it does provide the date registered (which could be
the year) along with MOT service history where you can find the mileage (asset
depreciation) for each year it was serviced.
Free UK Request for Vehicle Owner (Must have a valid interest)
As an individual you can request information about a
vehicle’s registered keeper from DVLA (using form V888) if you have ‘reasonable
cause’, examples of which include finding out who was responsible for an
accident or tracing the owner of an abandoned vehicle.
Use Their Name To Find Their Plane! (USA Only)
Search by name such as
smith or
smith john (no comma) to get the
type of plane they own along with their
address.
Click
here for other searches if you want to find
the owner based on something about their
plane such as make or model, or the county they live in.
Hint: If they're hiding assets, search by type of
plane to see if it's owned by one of their relatives or someone with their last
name.
FAA Pilot's Registry (USA Only)
Requires a last name to search for
licenses. Remember, if they have a license, they may also have a plane. Or maybe
it's their license and the plane is under the name of a child or mistress!
Aviation Database (US Pilots in All 50 States & DC)
Not as complete
as the official FAA database but allows searching by
first name only, last name,
or first and last name
to find or confirm their name, address,
city, state, zip, FAA number or pilot number,
medical expire date, certification, certification type, certification level and
rating.
International Assets, Companies, Court Documents (Best for Non USA)
This
vast archive of current and historic databases, documents, leaks and
investigations helps journalists across the world to see connections, find
stolen funds, spot political influence, and unveil corruption.
After initial search, you can do a sub search within
the retrieved documents. (Also can use advance search to the right
of the search box.)
Equipment,
Insurance Policies & Other Assets
Liens/Secured Transaction Registries
(Consumer-SOS)
A UCC lien usually results when an entity lends money
to a debtor, and the debtor pledges collateral to the lender in exchange for the
loan. Filings may list if the debtor has a tractor, a
refrigerator or an
expensive piece of equipment.
By Their Unclaimed Money/Property/Insurance
Policies
(Consumer-SOS)
Gives you the last known address of those people with unclaimed money or
property.
Includes pensions.
Bankruptcies/Bad Debt (Consumer-SOS)
Find out if someone has filed
for bankruptcy and use PACER to look at the assets in their bankruptcy petition.
For non liquidation bankruptcies, it may mean they still own these things!
Criminal & Civil Records (Consumer-SOS)
Any reference to property can
lead to assets.
Their Profession/License
Or Certifications (Consumer-SOS)
Some professions or licenses may indicate they have assets. Example: a licensed
dentist may have their own practice along with an expensive drill or X-ray
machine.
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.
How to Find Assets: 13 Public Record Sources to Find Assets
A checklist
of free public records to find out what they own. Once you know what to look
for, use the links below to find it!
Government Employment
Assets may include up to 6 years of their salary. Some
states even list the $ amount in their retirement funds!
Salaries-Federal
& State Employees (Consumer-SOS)
Back To Locating Assets
Relatives & Associates
(Who Might Be Hiding Their Assets)
Age, DOB,
Relatives & Where Else They've Lived (Consumer-SOS)
Find the close
relatives likely to hide assets in their own name. Often will list
spouses,
siblings and people they live with.
Intellectual Property (Websites, Patents, ©,® and ™)
Their Copyrights
Search their 3 databases by author and get the address and phone number of
the copyright owner.
Their
Trademarks (US Only)
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.
Trademarkia (For Trademarks They Filed In The Past)
Replace name in search box with the name of your subject to see
their prior trademarks and the physical address they used for TM
correspondence.
Use to see other TMs filed by this attorney or this company.
Pulls up more hits than the USPTO on old trademarks and provides info on the trademark correspondent (usually the TM attorney) and sometimes the corporation that hired them. Can also search by company name and sometmes by the trademark itself. With limited sucess can enter in the trademark and get the owner.
Find Trademarks In Other Countries
Or Search For Them By TM Owner (Global Brand DB)
Click on
"Brand" tab to Search for
trademarks/brandnames in over
140 countries
including the US & Canada as well as marks registered under the Madrid protocol.
Search for trademark owner
or agent by clicking on "Names" tab. Then do separate searches in
the holder and representative fields. Also search
Appelations of Origin under the
Libson Agreement (33 countries).
Find Their Websites & Domain
Names Through Their
Name, Company Name, Email or Username (Click
Here for Backup
Site)
Their websites may show they're using your trademark, stole customer lists, appropriated your product or
invention or that your ex employees are competing against you.
Once you get a list of sites, do a Whosis
lookup to find their emails, mailing addresses and phone #s.
For Best Results: Search by all 4 if you have this info. An email address may
turn up sites not listed under their business, and vice versa.
Spot Cybersquaters Who Deliberately Twist the Spelling of Your Website
(DNSTwister)
Enter in your website URL to see what other websites
suspiciously like yours have been registered. Then look up the cybersquatter
owner of the website
here so you can tell them to back off!
Brand Protection: Find People Who Named Their Website Too Close To Yours Or Choose A Distinctive Domain Name Like No One Else's (Good to acquire IP, or protect it From TM Infringement)
Use this site to police your brandname and find the people with website domain names too close to your own and warn them to stop using it.
Or pick out a domain name with the key words you want, and choose something
very different from what's already out there.
For example: You can look up who owns any domain with the words "Buzz" and
"Kill"
Site returns a list of domains along with their owners and partial email
addresses.
If you want a distinctive name with these words, you now know who has
something similar and can make your name standout from theirs.
Or if you've already trademarked your domain name, the search could show you
a list of potential infringers, i.e. those with confusingly similar URLs
(possible TM infringment if used as a brand name on their site).
To contact the owner, Google their name along with the partial email address
up through the @ sign. (You can also search the Trademark database to see if the
urls or phrases most similar to
yours are not trademarked.
Patents
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. Want to know who currently owns the patent?
Search The USPTO's
Patent Assignee Directory. (Good if you need to put a
lien on the patent.)
Find Patents In Other
Countries Or Search By Patent Holder (Hague Convention)
Select "Names" tab
and search by owner's last name for their
industrial design registrations in over
65 countries.
Find International
Patents & Applications By Owner's First & Last Name (Over
45 Countries)
Patentscope searches the text of 58 million patent documents including 3 million
published international patent applications (PCT).
Choose
Names in left drop
down field, then search first and last name like this:
Graham AND Firestone.
You can also search for key terms in "any
field" or in the "full text" field.
Companies or People
Involved in Patent Litigation (RPX Database)
Patents are big business! Type in their last name or
their company to learn their state of incorporation, their company and address
information. Often can learn more by clicking on a copy of the legal complaint,
which tells address and owner information.
Espacenet
Free access to over 110 million patent documents.
Find Older Versions Of A Website
For Past Versions of a Website: Use
The Wayback Machine
See how the site looked at a specific date, how it developed over the years; or
find the
contact info of the owners
before such was removed. For the last revision, search for the website on Google
or Bing and then use the
Google
or Bing cache function to see how the site looked just a
few months/weeks ago. See also
How To Access A Website When It's Down.
Other
Internet Archive Sites
See if other sites captured what the
Wayback Machine didn't.
Carbon Dating A
Website
Quickly tells you when a website was created. Worked with mine.
Get The Owner's Name, Email, Address &
Phone #
Whoxy Historical Records. Still free. See top left search box.
(Scroll down for historical records.)
Who Owns A Website (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...
Whoisology
Enter in a
domain name or
email address for the owner,
emails or other other websites they own.
Find Websites, Domain Names & Owner Contact Info By Owner's Name, Their Email, User Name or Business Name
Find Their Websites
& Domain Names Through Their
Name, Company Name, Email or Username (Click
Here for Backup
Site)
Their websites may show they're using your
trademark, stole customer lists, appropriated your product or
invention or that your ex employees are competing against you.
Once you get a list of sites, do a Whosis
lookup to find their emails, mailing addresses and phone #s.
For Best Results: Search by all 4 if you have this info. An email address may
turn up sites not listed under their business, and vice versa.
Extract
Emails From A Webpage
Find an email address
embedded in a web page even if you can't see it!
Try entering in the URLS of several pages on
the website in addition to their home page and contact page. Good for when a website conceals email addresses
or only
has a form page for complaints.
Find Their
Website By Email Address (Reverse Whosis Lookup)
Found two of my urls
based on my yahoo email address. For a similar site click
Here.
Whoisology
Enter in a
domain name or
email address for the owner,
emails or other other websites they own.
For More See Sleuth For The Truth: Expose A Business Owner Behind A Website
Find Who Links To A Website (May Reveal Hidden Relationships)
Smallseotools Backlink CheckerOther Website Lookups
Hacker-Target’s ‘Extract Links’ tool
This tool allows a fast and easy way to scrape links from a web page.
Lists links, domains, and resources that a page links to tell you a lot
about the page.
Phonebook.cz (Type
in web address, e.g. sleuthforthetruth.com)
Three options:
Email addresses: Shows a list of such
URLs (lists the directories within a
website-paste into your browser)
Domains
(the whole website-some data on such via
https://intelx.io/)
URLS show
directories within a website (including someo hidden ones that could
show people, projects or data). Once you see a linked list of such, you can
paste it into your browsers address box to see if
it's still live. Or simply click on it so that you can see a report
of what's found on it. (May require you wait a few seconds).
For emals and phone numbers on the site, scrape paste all links into a free
bulk email checker to extract emails and
phone numbers that are not just on the home page!
And example of this is https://botster.io/
which gives you 900 credits upon free sign up. You'll need to pay if you
have a larger site but 900 credits may give you dozens of pages.
Click on Domains for a similar report on an
entire website. Then click on the URL and wait a few seconds This
could reveal key people or key info not found by using the company's search
engine. Once you see their list of you can paste in Google or click on the
links to see if there's info. (pulls up info using
https://intelx.io/)
URL Extractor
(Bulkdachecker.com/url-extractor)
Extracts
links to pages in a website so you know what else is on the site
regardless of their lousy search directory. Can also use to scrape emails
and phone numbers by pasting all links into a free
bulk email checker to extract emails and phone numbers that are not
just on the home page! And example of this is
https://botster.io/ which gives you 900
credits upon free sign up. For individual page lookups. go to each
page link and while on the page, hit ctrl U to see source, copy all, and
then paste into
https://extractemailaddress.com/. This will attempt to pull out hidden
emails and phone numbers.
Brand Protection: Find People Who Named Their Website Too Close To Yours Or Choose A Distinctive Domain Name Like No One Else's (Good to acquire IP, or protect it From TM Infringement)
Use this site to police your brandname and find the people with website domain names too close to your own and warn them to stop using it.
Or pick out a domain name with the key words you want, and choose something
very different from what's already out there.
For example: You can look up who owns any domain with the words "Buzz" and
"Kill"
Site returns a list of domains along with their owners and partial email
addresses.
If you want a distinctive name with these words, you now know who has
something similar and can make your name standout from theirs.
Or if you've already trademarked your domain name, the search could show you
a list of potential infringers, i.e. those with confusingly similar URLs
(possible TM infringment if used as a brand name on their site).
To contact the owner, Google their name along with the partial email address
up through the @ sign.
(You can also search the Trademark database to see if the
urls or phrases most similar to
yours are not trademarked.
Spot Cybersquaters Who Deliberately Twist the Spelling of Your Website
(DNSTwister)
Enter in your website URL to see what other websites
suspiciously like yours have been registered. Then look up the
cybersquatter owner of the website
here so you can tell them to back off!
Old Hoster | New Hoster | Month / Year | Zone Date | Transaction |
---|---|---|---|---|
DOMAINCONTROL.COM | WEBSERVERSYSTEMS.COM | August 2016 | 2016-09-01 | Transfer |
JOMAX.NET | DOMAINCONTROL.COM | Sepember 2007 | 2007-10-01 | Transfer |
GODADDY.COM | JOMAX.NET | December 2002 | 2003-01-01 | Transfer |
GODADDY.COM | April 2002 | 2002-05-06 | New |
IP Addresses
& Reverse IP Lookups To Determine
Location
When you email or text someone, a unique identifier (IP address) can change
with your location. This means you may be able to track the location of someone
based on their IP address. Test this by finding your IP address when at
various locations and then looking up where it says you are!
Caution: some
email servers may give an IP address that appears to be in one location when the
person is emailing is at another location.
Melissa IP
Locator
Pulls up your IP address which you can use to track your
location. If you can get someone's
IP address from their email or text,, it can often
track the city and state where their text or email came from.
The IP Address &
Other Info From Where You Get Internet
When I visited this site, it gave
my IP address, my Zip Code, and the name of my cable Internet provider!
Extracting an IP Address
from a Text (Must paste in the text)
Scroll down beyond the ads to where
it says Enter text here... Submit Now.
https://www.ipfingerprints.com/
IP Geolocation tool helps you find the approximate geographic location of an IP
address along with some other useful information including ISP, TimeZone, Area
Code, State etc. Enter the IP address or the host name you want to locate and
press "Discover" button, your IP will be tracked in seconds depending if the
information of that IP is present in their database.
https://www.whatismyip.com/email-header-analyzer/
Says can analyse IP
address by pasting header.
Getting An IP Address From An Email (Blog)
Also Google
getting IP address from Yahoo, or GMail.
Tracinging Someone By Their IP Address (Blog)
Don't forget to Google the IP address, or try an IP Reverse lookup for even more info.
VoteRef.com (32 states but not CA)
With
just their name, find their current address, DOB, middle initial, political
party and the last election they voted in. For common
names, filter by state.
DOB & Political
Party Extractor from Voting Records in 20 States (Includes FL, MI, NY & OH)
Get their DOB even when they no longer live in
these states!
Foundations &
Non-Profits (by Individual or Company)
Nonprofit Explorer
Search the IRS 990 filings by
nonprofit name,
keyword or city
for over 1.8 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations. See financial
details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses.
Specific sections include: Compensation of Officers,
Directors, Trustees, Key
Employees, Highest Paid Employees, and Investments - Other Securities. For more see
990-Where To Find Assets, Income and Key Players.
Search for Nonprofits by Organization Name, Owner, Employee or
Key Words
Can search by individuals, but may be missing people.
Claims to search millions of non-profits. Lists
total revenue, addresses and potential red flags.
GuideStar (All USA)
Their database has more than 1,000,000 IRS-recognized
nonprofit organizations, their financial information and what they do. You can
find them by keyword or name, activity, city, state, zip code, nonprofit type,
revenue range, employer identification number, or NTEE code
Lookup Nonprofits, Charities and Private Foundations (National Search)
Can search by organizaton name and download many years of their
990s which list officers directors trustees
and key employees. along with their salaries
and investments which could result in
a potential conflict of interest.
Enter information on the organization you wish you to find to view their IRS
Form 990s and more. Can't search by individuals
but says you can use quotes like in Google.
Lookup Their Foundation by Name of The Grant Maker
Shows if they established a foundation using their own last name (but it's
really searching based on the name of the organization).
Scroll down their page to bot. left where it says Foundation Directory online
Quick Start, and enter a last name. Has 100 thousand plus foundations where you
can learn about their total assets and total giving. Want more info? Google the
name of the foundation or its trustees.
Search for Forms 990-N Filed by Small Tax-Exempt Organizations
Search a list of organizations that have filed Form 990-N (e-Postcard)
and download the database of e-Postcard filings.
Back To
Locating Assets
Back To People
Search Index
Life Events (Bankruptcies,
Lawsuits)
Was there an insurance settlement? Were assets listed in the
bankruptcy petition? Did the breach of contract case or landlord dispute refer
to other assets?
Bankruptcies/Bad Debt (Consumer-SOS)
Find out if someone has filed
for bankruptcy and use PACER to look at the assets in their bankruptcy petition.
For non liquidation bankruptcies, it may mean they still have those assets!
Federal Court Cases Through PACER (Both Civil & Criminal-Federal
Only)
Get free online case and docket information for bankruptcies and other
federal cases, including criminal cases. Registration is free and so is
your first $30 of usage within each quarter. You should
never be billed for anything if you use less than $30 every three months.
Just fill out their on-line
registration form and within a week you'll receive your login and
password. Note:
Some Courts are not on PACER which means you have to search these courts
individually. Drawback: If upon sign up, you don't
want to give them your credit card info, it will take a week to get your log
in password. (It's well worth the wait!)
Search For Civil
and Criminal Records With
Google Scholar
Put in a name, a court case or a case site. Can search for individuals by full
name, first and last name, or by first name, middle initial and last name.
(Search with and without "") Can narrow search to a specific state.
How To Google For Other Lawsuits
(State or Federal Cases)
(use
quotes if name is two or more words)
"Graham Firestone" v (as plaintiff)
v "Graham Firestone" (as
defendant)
v Pontrelli (defendant, no need for quotes)
v Pontrelli
"New York" (refines the search)
v Pontrelli "New York"
divorce
Back To
Locating Assets
Back To People Search Index
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.
Reverse Lookups-Find By Photo, Contact Information, User Name, etc (Consumer-SOS)
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.
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.
Back To People Search Index
Businesses
(Finding People By....)
The Company They Own (Consumer-SOS)
Their Profession/License
Or Certifications (Consumer-SOS)
Are they really a Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher, Notary etc...
Check out Bankers ,CPAs, Doctors, Government Directories Of People & Their
Salaries, Lawyers, Lobbyists, Pilots and more.
Employment, College, Relatives,
States & Cities Lived Ins (Consumer-SOS)
Often info is self published and
taken from Social media.
Their Assets (Consumer-SOS)
Learn who owns
what.
Their Intellectual Property (Consumer-SOS)
Websites,
Patents, ©,® and ™)
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 Government
Job, Non Profit Job or Position At A Publicly Traded Company (Consumer-SOS)
Enter in their name and confirm if they really work there! Verify the job
titles, salaries and length of employment of those who work for the goverment,
non-profits, foundatons and large publicly traded corporations.
Back To People Search Index
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.
Plaxo (Photo,
Profession)
Can search for photos based on a name. May list
profession. Must sign up for more info.
Back To People Search Index
Find People By The Company They Own
Private Corporations (Consumer-SOS)
Search by individual or name of company.
Public Corporations (Consumer-SOS)
Search
by officers or name of
company.
Foundations & Non-Profits
(Consumer-SOS)
Search by individual or name of company.
Companies or People
Involved in Patent Litigation (RPX Database)
Type in their last name
or their company to learn their state of incorporation, their company and
address information. Often can learn more by clicking on a copy of the legal
complaint, which tells address and owner information.
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.
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 Dating Profiles or Usernames
Online dating can be scary. People lie about their age, frequently change
their profiles and sometimes have a different profile or name for each dating site.
But what if you could background someone even before your first date? Even before you know their real name? These sites beow are far from perfect. But they are very useful!
Use
Their Usernames Or Emails To Pull Up True Name or Postings
(Consumer-SOS)
See what they post elsewhere and if they're consistent in
what they're saying about themselves.
Is The Email Reputable?
(verify it's not just a
throwaway email or used by spammers)
Good for dating or
buying online when you ask for their email.
Gives you 3 free searches a day. (Made up a fake email and it caught me!)
Use this to see if someone is a serial dater
and setting up burner emails.
How To Background His Marital Status (Sleuth For The Truth Blogs)
Google
Search Within The Dating Site
Note: this
link above looks for the profile machoman on the dating site Plenty of Fish.
Simply change to the username and website you're looking for.
Example: studly
site:match.com.
This 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
See Finding Friends, Associates & Hidden Relationships
See Is The Guy Your Dating Really Married? (Christian-SOS)
Friends & Associates/Hidden Relationships
Find Their Related Websites
Through Their Name, Company Name, Email or Username
(Click
Here for Backup
Site)
Websites could lead to other businesses, crazy schemes, or the
names of close
associates who are up to no good.
Once you get a list of sites, do a Whosis
lookup to find their emails, mailing addresses and phone #s
Note you don't need the full email address, just the part before the @ sign. For
common names, search by email as well.
For Best Results: Search by all 4 if you have this info. An email address may
turn up sites not listed under their business, and vice versa.
Do Two Websites Have
The Same Google Anaytics ID?
To prove their connected, enter in the
website to see what other websites have this same identifier.
Find Friends & Associates Through Google, Facebook, 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
How To Find Who Knows Who
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?
Find Who Links To A Website (May Reveal Hidden Relationships)
Smallseotools Backlink Checker
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.
See Also
Find Their Related Websites
Through Their Name, Company Name, Email or Username (Click
Here for Backup
Site)
Websites could lead to other businesses, crazy schemes, or the names of close
associates who are up to no good.
Once you get a list of sites, do a Whosis
lookup to find their emails, mailing addresses and phone #s.
Note you don't need the full email address, just the part before the @ sign. For
common names, search by email as well.
For Best Results: Search by all 4 if you have this info. An email address may
turn up sites not listed under their business, and vice versa.
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.
By Their Profession/License Or Certifications
Banking | Notaries |
CPAs/Accountancy | Pilots |
Doctors | Radio/DJs |
Government | Real Estate (Agents & Brokers) |
Insurance | Stock Brokers & Investment Advisors |
Lawyers | Teachers |
Lobbyists | Other Professionals |
Mortgage/Reverse Mortgages (Brokers & Bus.) |
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.
Back To People Search Index
CPAs/Accountants
Certified
Public Accountants (All 50 States
& DC & More)
See if they're really certified. Provides their name and address.
Georgia
Composite State Board Of Medical Examiners
Gives name and address of all licensed medical doctors (includes
psychiatrists
but not dentists), their specialty and if they've been disciplined.
Also regulates physician's assistants,
respiratory care professionals,
acupuncturists, perfusionists, and auricular (ear) detoxification specialists.
Dentists & Pharmacists
(GA License Lookup)
Includes Georgia dental hygenists and pharmacy technicians.
One Stop
Professional License Search (GA)
Search by first or last name in 40 occupations or select the occupation and then
search. Has some doctors. Also has some licenses from other states (Not complete as most hits are
from GA).
UN Medical
Doctors Worldwide
Is he really an American doctor stuck overseas, or just
scamming you. The list of UN Examining Physicians Worldwide provides the names
and contact info for ALL UN doctors. Once you've opened the list, search by last
name by holding down both
CTRL
and F on your keyboard.
Occupation Licensing Board For All 50 States & DC
Has lawyers, doctors and CPAs too!
National Commercial DR Lookups
Commerical national
directories are NEVER as complete as the individual state DR licensing boards,
and are bound to be missing legitimate doctors. To be absoutely certain, check
the medical licensing boards in any of the states where the doctor claims to
live or practice medicine.
Doc Info
(National, No State Required)
Missing some records but worth looking into. If
he's there, stop looking. If he's not, check the official medical boards in the
state where he claims to live or practice medicine.
DocFinder Physician
Directory
Search 17
states at once for a doctor's licensing background and disciplinary information.
For all other states use their state links on the right.
Doctor Search (National But Must Select A State)
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.
Back To People Search Index
Salaries: Government, Non Profit, Foundations & Publicly Trade
Companies
Salaries: Federal
Employees (Excludes Postal Workers)
Search by last name to find their salary, branch and location of millions of
federal employees.
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.
Salaries: Postal Workers
Find the salaries of over a half a million federal
post office employees for the last 5 years.
Salaries: Foundations & Non-Profits
(Consumer-SOS)
Look
up salaries of 5 highest employees. May list up to 20!
Salaries: Publicly Traded Corporations
(Consumer-SOS)
Look up
the salaries and stock benefits of the highest paid corporate officers.
Salaries: US Congress (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.
Government Employee Directories (Confirm where they work)
State of Georgia
Employment Directory
Search by first name
or last even without knowing what agency they
belong to. Retrieves name title and department, work
address, phone number, email address, etc.
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"
The Salaries Of People in Your State & County Government (Scroll down for Canada & States)
Arizona
Public AZ Salaries From PI Buzz
Newest Salary Databases (Google)
Arkansas
Arkansas
State Salary Database
This database contains base salaries of employees
from all state agencies. Salaries and compensation are only shown for those
earning more than $37,823.
Public Colleges & Universities
School
District Salaries
Newest Arkansas Salary Databases (Google)
California
California Public
Salaries
Salary databases for California cities, counties schools and
universities.
State Worker Salary Database
Salaries of California's 300,000-plus state
workers and view up to eight years of their pay history.
San Francisco Bay Area Public Salary Database (2012-2013)
City & County Salaries in
California (up through 2013)
May have lots of gaps but there are salary
records from 2007-2013.
County of Nevada Public Salaries (2011-2014)
Newest Salary Databases For California (Google)
Colorado
Colorado Public Salary Databases (Google)
Connecticut
Connecticut State Salary Database (6 Years of Data)
To search by name
click on "Advanced Search"
Totals are for the fiscal year which runs from
July 1 through June 30.
Please note that the amounts shown may represent
partial year totals if the employee was not employed for the full year or was
employed by multiple agencies.
State Empoyee Salaries of 2012
Delaware
Delaware Salary Databases From Google
Florida
State Of Florida Public Salaries
Departments include that of the Lottery, Justice Administrative Commission (e.g.
state attorney, public defender) and State Courts System (e.g. Judges)
employees. It does not include Legislature, state university system,
benefit-only entities, or municipal / county government employees.
University Of Central Florida Public Salaries
Florida University System
Employees (2014)
About 12 state schools covered.
Orange County Salaries
Download
Year 2008 Pubic Salaries For Florida
Escambia
County Employees (Includes City
of Pensacola)
Recent Public Salary Databases For Florida (Google)
Georgia
Georgia
State Salary Database (Includes
Public 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.
Public
Salaries in Various GA Counties
Scroll down to their section on
public salaries.
Georgia Public Salaries From PI Buzz
Guam
Staff Salaries
Hawaii
Municipal
Employees Payroll (2010-12)
Idaho Higher Ed
Payroll (2010-2014)
Idaho
Salaries From PI Buzz
Illinois
Illinois State Salary Database (8 years of Salary History)
State & Local Employee Salaries
And Pension Amounts Too
Includes school teachersm the City of Chicago,
various counties and more.
Payroll, Pension, School Databases
Even has years of service in pension section, along with pension amounts.
Recent Salary Databases For Illinois (Google)
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.
Look Up Public Salaries of County Officials
Use drop box to select
county. Can also generate a report.
Publc Employee Lookup Tool
Includes teachers.
Recent Indiana Salary Databases (Google)
Iowa
Iowa
Salary Search
Search by last name or department.
Recent Iowa Databases (Google)
Kansas
City
Employee Payroll
Salaries In
Select Kansas Counties
Salaries For Kansas Public School Employees
Kansas State
Employees Earning over 100K (Includes State
Universities)
Scroll to bottom of page.
Recent Kansas Salary Databases (Google)
Kentucky
Kentucky State Employee Salaries
University
of Kentucky Empoyee Salaries
The 2015 University of Kentucky payroll
database includes more than 18,400 people working full- or part-time for the
university as of April 2015.
http://datacenter.courier-journal.com/government/salaries/
Want to know
how much each of the 7,000 Louisville Metro government employees are paid per
year? Or Jefferson County teachers? Or how much more than 65,000 state workers
in Kentucky and Indiana earn? Or the salaries of Kentucky legislators and
judges? Just type in the name of the employee or branch of government. The
Courier-Journal compiled this list from available public records. To read about
this data's limitations and when it was obtained, click "About".
Fayette County Public Schools (2015)
Recent Kentucky Database (Google)
Louisiana
Louisiana State Salaries (Free Sign up)
LSU Employee Salaries (2014-2015)
Will search more than 12,000 employees
who were full-time, part-time, or seasonal in the LSU system.
Louisiana Public Salaries From PI Buzz
Maine
Maine Salary Database (2013)
Salaries At University of Main System (2014-2015)
Maryland
Maryland State
Salaries (2014)
Maryland State Salaries Over $50,000
Includes university employees.
Frederick City & County Public Salaries
Baltimore City Employee Salaries (2015)
Salary Archive of Selected City And County Salaries
More Maryland Salaries From PI Buzz
Recent Salary Databases (Google)
Massachusetts
Massachusetts State Employee Salary Databases (2013-2016)
State Salary Database (2009-2015)
County
District Attorneys
Search
payroll information for the district attorneys and their staffs for the state�s
five western counties. Berkshire, Hampden and Worcester district attorney
offices are listed by name. The Northwestern District Attorney serves Hampshire
and Franklin counties.
More Massachuesetts Public Salaries From PI BUzz
Michigan
State of Michigan Salary Search (2007)University
of Michigan Salary Lookup (Last 14 Years)
Salary search for all 41,000
University of Michigan employees.
More Salary Lookups From PI Buzz
Minnesota
State Employee
Payroll Data (Last 4 years)
You can find state employee salaries by
agency or by individual employee.
Minnesota Public Salaries (Last 7 Years)
Minnesota Public School Salaries (2002-Present)
This database contains
base salaries for administrators, teachers and other staff required to be
licensed by the state, working in Minnesota public schools between 2002-03 and
the present year. Data for the current school year is not available until the
following summer.
Mississippi
Can't find a single database!
Missouri
Database of Government Employees
(Current Government Site)
This site provides gross pay amounts by the last pay cycle and year to date.
Note: Gross pay amounts include all pay received by an employee; it is not base
salary.
State Employee Salaries (could be from 2008, not clear)
Missouri School Teacher Salaries (2014- 2015)
The salaries were provided
by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which receives
the data directly from school districts and charter schools. If a district or
school did not send payroll data or sent incomplete payroll data to the state,
some or all of its employees may not be included.
University of Missouri Employee Payroll (2014-2015)
Taxpayers help pay
the salaries for more than 24,000 employees in the University of Missouri
System, which has campuses in Columbia, St. Louis, Kansas City and Rolla. Search
this database to learn what university employees are being paid. Select fields
below to search through the University of Missouri System employee payroll.
More Salary Databases From PI Buzz
Montana
Montana
State University Salary Links
Nebraska
Nebraska Blue Book Information (Portal For Government Salaries)
State of the
Schools Report
Select a year, click on tabs for state, school district
or school building and use the search box to find a wealth of information
(including salaries) on Nebraska public schools
Salaries Of U of Nebraska Employees
After you open a
file, click on the binoculars icon to search by last name.
Nevada
Nevada Public Employee Salary Database
Cities & Counties, Public Schools And Puplic University Public Payrolls
Nevada Government Salaries
Includes salaries from state employees,
workers at Nevada's public colleges, the Metropolitan Police Department,
University Medical Center and the regional housing authority.
Douglas County School District Salaries (2011-2014)
Storey County Public
Salaries
University of
Nevada Employee Listing
Lists their name, their job title, their salary and their phone number. See
backup site.
New Hampshire
State Employee Pay Search
(Official site)
Click here
to download salary data from spreadsheets.
City of Nashua
Employee Salaries (4 years worth)
Concord School District Salaries (2013-2014 School Year)
More Public Salaries For New Hampshire at Pi Buzz
New Jersey
Salaries of NJ Teachers & Local, County & State Public EmployeesOther NJ Salaries (See Under ''Payroll")
Google Searches On NJ Public Salaries
New Mexico
State
Employee Salaries (3 Years)
Select year and cllck on "Search Employee
Data"
New Mexico State
Employee Salaries
Click on "all" and "view employees."
Google Searches On New Mexico 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. Includes public school teachers and college professors and more.
Most Recent Public Salary Databases (Google)
North Carolina
State Employee
Salaries
May also include public school teachers who are ultimately paid
by the state budget.
Most Recent Salary Databases (Google)
North Dakota
Most Recent Salary Databases (Google)
Ohio
State of Ohio Employee Salaries
Contains 5 years of salary history with
the state as well as the name of each state employee, his/her agency, position
title, and gross pay from the pay period indicated.
Most Recent Salary Databases (Google)
Oklahoma
Oregon
Oregon-Various Cities Including Portland (Google Advanced Search for This Year)
Pennsylvania
State Salaries For 2015 (Download Spreadsheet)
Search through over a
hundred thousand state salaries. Sort by last name in Excel or search by last
name within the spreadsheet.
State
Salaries For Pennsylvania (Incomplete)
At least twenty thousand employees but does not
include vendors and contractors.
School Payroll (For PA Teachers)
Pennsylvania Salaries (Google)
Public
School Teachers Salaries (2006-07)
Salary Details of Pennsylvania's 151,000 public school teachers and
administrators.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island State
Employee Payroll Search (6 Years of Employment History)
Gives their name,
title and department along with yearly earnings.
Salaries From Google (For Other Salary Databases)
South Carolina
South Carolina State Salary Database
(Only Salaries 50K & Up)
Enter first name and last i.e. "John Smith"
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.
SC Salaries (Google Search)
South Dakota
State
Employee Salary Lookup
Review spending, salaries of individual state
employees. Much of this information is linked directly to the state's accounting
and payroll systems, so the data provided is constantly updated
Other SD Public Salary Data From Google
Tennessee
Public Salaries For Tennessee (Google Links From A Year Ago Or Less)
Texas
Governmental Salaries Explorer
The Texas Tribune’s Government Salaries
Explorer lists the compensation of hundreds of thousands of state and municipal
employees in Texas, including those working for state agencies, public
universities, school districts and mass-transit entities.
Newest Salary Databases For Texas (Google)
Utah
Utah Public SalariesNewest Salary Databases For Utah (Google)
Vermont
Newest Salary Databases For Virginia (Google)
DC Public Salaries (Google)
Washington
Washington State
Salaries
The State Employee Salary Database provides names, job titles,
and total annual earnings of all state employees. Includes 5 years of data or
more. The database is compiled from information provided by the state’s payroll
systems.
School Employees
This database reflects Washington state public
school employees' positions, districts, education, certificated experience, pay
and benefits.
Newest Salary Databases For Washington (Google)
West Virginia
W2 Earnings For 65,000 State Employees
(2007)
To search by last name, click on the binoculars icon.
Newest Salary Databases For West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
State Employee Pay
Search through a database of more than 38,000 Wisconsin state employees to see
how much they earned.
Other
Salary Databases (Various City and Counties, Universities, etc.)
Google
lookup in the last year.
Wyoming
Lincoln County Employee
Salaries
Names, positions and gross monthly salaries of each full-time
employee and each elected official, not including any fringe benefits such as
health insurance costs, life insurance benefits and pension plans. The salaries
do not include any overtime that the employees may earn which would be paid by
the county.
Other Salary Databases From Google
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 NHL Players (2006-2007)
GA
Office of Insurance & Safety Fire Commisioner
Verify if an individual is licensed as an
Agent, Adjuster, Counselor, Limited Subagent or Surplus Lines Broker in the
State of Georgia.
GA Office Of
Insurance
Homepage.
Insurance Licensing Boards By State (Google)
For more, add your state to the Google search box.
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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.
Lawyer.com-Advanced Search
May return info on disciplinary action, expertise, and years of practicing. Found a
MN ex lawyer unlisted at the MN Bar because he was suspeded for nonpayment of
fees (good to know why he wasn't a lawyer anymore). Use their advanced search
function to find by state or even when you're not sure of their state. Then go
to state bar attorney directory to confirm your data.
Martin-Dale Hubble
(National Directory)
Can search by just a first name or you can add practice area or firm location to
find their full name, 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.
Search by Attorney Name for who’ve they
represented in the past. (tracks who has ties to what, use to ferret out
hidden interests, possible joint defense alliances)
Search for Patent Cases filed
against a particular defendant (includes cases against non RPX members)
(Example: Says over 179 lawsuits filed against Cellco Partnership)
Search by
Patent to pull up Lawsuits, Companies That Have Owned The Patent or
companies that have been sued on such (nice to know if the patent has been
in prior litigation, been transferred to other shell companies, and who's
been sued for infringement.)
Search By Law Firm for the clients they’ve
represented in the past/are currently representing (may expose conflicts or
possible joint defense alliances, real party in interest, etc.)
Find Out Where the Party has Litigated, in
what Market Sector, and in what Court (Shows that party is not new at this
game and should be prepared, i.e. they can’t plead ignorance of Court rules,
complain of the burden of complying with routine discovery or fail to
provide proper metadata typical in these proceedings, etc.)
Learn What Kind of Companies Are Suing
(Labeled either Operating company or NPE-NPE stands for non-practicing
entity)
Locate Company's State of Incorporation (listed on the complaint)
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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!
Back To People Search Index
Mortgage Loan Officers & Their Companies
Mortgage
Loan Originators Via The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System & Registry
(NMLS)
Confirm
that the state or federal mortgage loan company or
Mortgage Loan Professional is authorized to conduct business in your state.
Learn where they currently work, where they prevously worked, if they are
engaged in other businesses (i.e. possible conflict of interest) and if they've
had any regulatory or disciplinary issues from 2012 onwards. Applications being
processed won't list the person as licensed until approved.
Why can’t I find a company or individual I am searching for on Consumer
Access? (Assuming They're Legitamate of course!)
§ The company or individual may be licensed in a state that is not licensing companies, branches, and/or individuals through NMLS at this time. (Seems only Texas might be exlcuded ) For information, see a list of states currently participating in NMLS Consumer Access.
Who Should Be In This Database
1. All
federally registered mortgage loan originators (i.e. those employed by a
federally chartered or insured depository institution, or a subsidiary of such
an institution) and their employing institution.
2. Virtually all
State Licensed Non-Mortgage Companies and branches (unless
otherwise noted). May exclude Texas. Check
the
State Licensing Requirements for descriptions and checklists for each
license that state agencies manage in NMLS.
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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.
Back To People Search Index
Pilots
FAA Pilot's Registry (USA Only)
Requires a last name to search for
licenses of all people who can legally fly a plane. Remember, if they have a
license, they could have a plane. And even a tiny plane can be a big
asset!
Use to find or confirm their name, address,
city, state, zip, FAA number or pilot number,
medical expire date, certification, certification type, certification level and
rating.
Aviation Database (US Pilots in All 50 States & DC)
Not as complete as the FAA official database,
but here you can search by first name only,
last name,
or first and last name
to find or confirm their name, address,
city, state, zip, FAA number or pilot number,
medical expire date, certification, certification type, certification level and
rating.
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.
Amateur Radio Licenses By Name or Call Sign.
Gives you the person's name
with their middle initial, city and state!
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Real
Estate
Certified
Real Estate Appraisers (National
Government Registry With State Registies-Scroll for ALL Resources)
Will often provide you with the person's address and phone number.
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.
Stock Brokers/Investment Advisors
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 Disciplinary Actions Online (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)
FINRA oversees the people and firms that sell stocks,
bonds, mutual funds and other securities.
Includes both broker-dealer (BD) firms and individuals. Simply type in your
current or prospective broker’s name to see
employment history, certifications, and licenses—as well as regulatory actions,
violations or complaints you might want to know about.
See here for their
disclaimers.
If they are not licensed, they may still turn up along with a statement that says: "This individual is not currently licensed to act as a broker (buying and selling securities on behalf of customers) or as an investment adviser (providing advice about securities to clients). They may still be able to offer other investment-related services if properly licensed to do so. Click here to learn more."
Investment Advisors (Investment Adviser Public Disclosure Website)
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
in other industries.
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Teacher Certification
Lookup (Georgia)
Any professional serving in
Georgia public schools must hold a valid GaPSC certificate appropriate to
the field of employment. Learn what they are certified to teach and what
certifications have expired. See if they're in good standing.
Teacher Certification Checkup (50 States & DC)
Each state has different
standards on whether or not they report on private teachers. But you can verify
at least if they are certified to be a public school teacher. May also have
discplinary history.
Teacher Lookup (A Few States)
Some of these databases can 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.
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
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).
Farmers:
Farm Subsidy Database
Search for who received farm subsidies based on person's name or business: tells
how much $ total or per year, for what type of crops and the location of the
farm receiving the subsidy. Use to verify if someone claims to be a rich farmer,
or to confirm if they own the farm. (won't verify anything if they never applied
for a subsidy, but if they did, it tells you who, when and what the $ was for.)
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.
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.
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.
Adjacent County
Lookup
Enter a county and state to learn the adjacent counties. Adjacent county lookups
are used by public record researchers to expand their search area. For example,
a person may reside in county A, but lives near the border of county B, spends
time in county B, and has criminal or other cases there.
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.
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.
*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 |
Rare Names (Will return too many results for common names)
All in One Spot Searches (Rare Names Only)
PublicDataUsa.com
Enter name and state for
ages (ages off by as much as 3 years)
Use with rare names to find
companies, real property,
state and county registered to vote,
campaign contributions, corporations and
sometimes even religion and their high school.
Whether a whitehouse visitor. Look for listing in consumer market databse to
see ethnicity,
religion and occupation and
date of birth (close but a day off).
IDCrawl
Use their
full name (no quotes) to get a
photo, social media, school, the websites they
own and maybe even their usernames.
Works best with rare names or you'll get
too many hits. Got me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Social Media (Rare Names)
Google
Social Search (for uncommon names)
For a one stop search in the
social media listed below, enter name with or without quotes with a check
mark next to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Pinterest and
Instagram. Doesn't work well for emails.
https://webmii.com/
Search by first and last name to find people on
various websites. To narrow your results,
hit the + button and add key
words like attorney or their city or state.
Company/Assets/Intellectual Property Search
Corporation Wiki
Enter in a person or
corporate name to learn of trademarks or
incorporation. Not good for showing current corporations, but gathers
info from USPTO Dun & Brandstreet, etc.
Use to
track assets/find companies when don't know name
of company or where may be incorporated. Sometimes links people to
prior jobs rather than to any companies
they actually owned.
For common names and companies, allows you to refine search by state or whether you're looking for a person or a company. Note: The same person could appear in several listings because they own several companies.
Companies Or Vehicles They've Owned
(Works Best for Rare Names)
At bottom will sometimes list the
companies they own or are registered agents
for, along with the vehicles they've bought,
patent filings, etc.
International Trademark & TM
Owner Search (Global Brand Database)
Click on "Brand" tab to Search
for trademarks/Brandnames in over
30 countries
including the US & Canada as well as marks registered under the Madrid
protocol.
Search for trademark owner or agent by
clicking on "Names" tab. Then search for holder or representative.
Companies or People
Involved in Patent Litigation (RPX Database)
Type in their last name
or their company to learn their state of incorporation, their company and
address information. Often can learn more by clicking on a copy of the legal
complaint, which tells address and owner information.
Radaris
Search for names, ages, addresses and phone numbers. Good for tracking
professionals-often lists work history and
companies they've owned. Click on
the person you want or scroll to the bottom of the page for even more.
Compiles news on them.
MISC.
Investigative Dashboard Search (US &
International Docs)
Search by first and last name for official documents.
Lets you search across 141 collections of documents from previous
investigations, official sources, and scraped databases. Found my brother.
Use Social
Network Sites & Other Directories To Background By:
First Name or Last Name or Partial Last Name
Full Name
Email Address
Business or Website (or to Reveal Their
Business Affiliations)
BY FIRST NAME OR LAST 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. For example, you don't even need their real name
at all, if you have their phone #, or an email address, a username or their
physicall address.
To verify or learn their full name with the above, see the Sleuth For The Truth
Blog
Reverse Searches: Background Them By Old & Current Contact Info
Facebook
Friend Browser (Must 1st Be Logged Into Facebook)
For the moment, Facebook has brought back its
advanced search function. Look for "Search
for Friends." Below this are fields where you can search by
name, employment, hometown, education, city or
mutual friend. Do not put the name in quotes. Find people by
partial name, i.e. enter in John with
their current or former company.
Other Ways To Get Their Full name
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. Or you can search the same way if you have just a last name.
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/ is good for finding rare first
names when you don't know the last name. Or for unusual last names when you
don't know their first name.
Enter your info
only in the PEOPLE SEARCH first or last name box on the right hand side.
Then choose a state. If the name is too common it will return only the
first 99 or 100 hits.
Using Google or Bing: (Get full name with first or last name plus other Google search term)
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"
(Address)
Or if you know where they work:
Tiffany
Unitedlex
(Company)
Tiffany Unitedlex Georgia
(Company & State)
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 Bing. 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.
See 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.
See
Facebook
Advanced Search (Must 1st Be Logged Into Facebook)
For the moment, Facebook has brought back its
advanced search function. Search for a
person by first and last name and hit enter, cick on "ALL" or next try
"PEOPLE". A filter with optons appears on the left. Below this are fields where you can search by
name, employment, hometown, education, city or
mutual friend or even the date of the photo you are looking for.
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 Sites, State 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.
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.
Finding A Last Name With Just the First Name And A Few Key Words
Facebook
Advanced Search (Must 1st Be Logged Into Facebook)
For the moment, Facebook has brought back its
advanced search function. Search for a
person by first and last name and hit enter, cick on "ALL" or next try
"PEOPLE". A filter with optons appears on the left. Below this are fields where you can search by
name, employment, hometown, education, city or
mutual friend or even the date of the photo you are looking for.
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
College & University Directory
From their home page, find
their Alumni Directory and
Search by First Name, Dorm, Major, Graduation Date, etc.)
Facebook (Requires Free
Signup to Search)
Facebook's search engine changes all the time.
Here is how to find someone by first name (hits confined to the last year)
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)
In their advanced people search box, enter a first name or a last name, some key
words, and/or a profession. Too many hits?
Then narrow your leads by adding a location or a school, etc.
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.
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)
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)
Back To People Search Index
See
Facebook
Advanced Search (Must 1st Be Logged Into Facebook)
For the moment, Facebook has brought back its
advanced search function. Search for a
person by first and last name and hit enter, cick on "ALL" or next try
"PEOPLE". A filter with optons appears on the left. Below this are fields where you can search by
name, employment, hometown, education, city or
mutual friend or even the date of the photo you are looking for.
Forregular Facebook Searches
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
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)
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
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
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.
See Also
Address, Phone # or Emails (Consumer-SOS)
Back To Top
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.
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)
See also Business Or Profession Or Certification (Consumer-SOS)
Multiple Platforms | |
YouTube | |
BuzzGlobe
Can put the
full name in
quotes. Pulls up postings in Twitter, Facebook,
Linkedin and other social media. Use
Advanced Search to add key words or filter for those without certain
words.
IDCrawl
Use their
full name (no quotes but can narrow by
state) to get a photo,
social media, school, the websites they own and maybe even their
usernames. Works best with
rare names or you'll get too many hits.
Got me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Veripages (USA Only)
Use full name
to pull up
age with Facebook or Linkedin
resume info or link to DOB on My Life.
Search by if the name is a common one. Then click on
VIEW FULL PROFILE to get their name, age,
and sometimes their employer or resume. AVOID CLICKING ON "DETAILS"
(takes you to a pay site).
https://webmii.com/
Search by first and
last name to find people on various websites. To narrow your results,
hit the + button and add key words like
attorney or their city or state.
https://searchpof.com/
Type in name
with or without
quotes,
can add a state; click on search
icon. From there can select All. Does a
decent job.
Metadata2go
Can show hidden
metadata in Word, Excel, pics, audio and video (but not YouTube.) which
could include the author, location and more.
Use
Their Usernames Or Emails To Pull Up True Name or Postings
(Consumer-SOS)
See what they post elsewhere and if they're consistent in
what they're saying about themselves.
Dating Profiles/Usernames
(Consumer-SOS)
Additional ways to search who the person really is.
Quickly Find Old Classmates and Alumni Through Facebook, Classmates.com, Linkedin and Google (Sleuth For The Truth)
Quickly Find Old Classmates and Alumni Through Facebook, Classmates.com, Linkedin and Google (Sleuth For The Truth)
Facebook: Find By First Name
Type
in first name and hit Enter, click on People
(left hand side), then add either a location
or a school or a
company. Don't try all categories at once
unless you have too many hits.
Teaching Facebook To Look For Exact Searches
Facebook
guesses at the correct spelling but sometimes this is a problem when the
name you're looking for is spelled differently.To get your keywords to be
executed exactly:
1.Use quotation marks
and hit enter. For example search for
"Jonethan" not Jonathan and then hit enter.
2. Click once on the link in your browser address box (up top) after
following step 1. In the address box up top you will now see
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q="jonethan"
At the end of this, now add
&spell=1 so it now looks like
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q="jonethan"&spell=1
3.
Hit enter and now Facebook will search most of the time for the exact words.
Get Facebook ID
Find The Year They Joined Facebook By
Getting Their Facebook ID
Beware of people who's FB account is
extremely new or very old but with few comments or friends.
To verify
when their account was set up:
1. Google their first and last name
and Facebook to get their Facebook homepage. (This won't work if you go
directly through Facebook.)
Then copy and paste their Internet address into the searchbox of this link
above. In my case the link to my Facebook account is
https://www.facebook.com/graham.firestone
2. Click on "lookup" which
will then extract their unique Facebook Id #, a large number like this
100003202741882
3. Add their unique
ID # number to the link below
facebook.com/marketplace/?seller_profile=100003202741882
4. Copy and paste the full link with ID # into your Internet
address box (not the Google search box).
Facebook will then display the
year they joined Facebook. Try it on your own account! (For your own account
you can use Facebook directly.)
Back To People Search Index
Googling For
Postings on an Instagram Profile (No Instagram Account Needed)
To get multiple postings by an Instagram User, click on link above, and in
the Google search box replace only the
PROFILENAME. For example, to get the postings of "boy.xcx" simply
replace "site:Instagram.com/PROFILENAME/
*" with "site:Instagram.com/boy.xcx/ *"
and hit enter.
Use a Name or Username to See an Instagram
Account with Photo (imginn.com)
Good when you dont' want to log on to
Instagram or don't have an account.
Anonymous Instagram Browsing
(Insta-stories Viewer)
Enter in a username like @sleuthforthetruth to
possibly get their real name or other info without being on Instagram.
Back To People Search Index
LinkedIn
Use LinkedIn Filters to Find by School, Old Company, City or Country
(Sleuth For The Truth)
LinkedIn: Find By First Name Only
To search for by first name only, add a
location and profession like this:
Suzanne 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).
See All the Posts of a Certain
Redditt User
Enter their Reddit username
and hit search. If too many hits, you can narrow with extra search
terms. See additional site here.
Twitter
Wayback
Tweets
Enter their username and it displays multiple archived tweets
on the Wayback Machine.
Twitter Advanced
Search
Use to search
for first name only or for
common names. Narrow your search by adding
and excluding terms.
Youtube Metadata from Video, Channel or Playlist
Excellent for details about a YouTube video and
its uploader, playlist, creator, or channel. May reveal location, key words,
pics in video, date published, etc. So extensive you don't know what
you will find, but it's worth scrolling down to see whatever it captures!
Find Tags on
YouTube Videos
Might reveal names if someone put such in the tags. May also show if copied
your data from your own videos. To get video URl, you must open the video,
right click and copy, then paste into the search box on the right under
SETTINGS.
Search within
YouTube Subtitles To Find Videos that Mention Key Words or a Rare Name
Enclose phrases in double quotation marks, for
example: "radio telescope" or "sleuth for the truth". You can also search
for names in both "Automatic Subtitles" and in "Manual Subtitles." Can add
words or limit the search to a particular YouTube channel. (e.g.search for
the word Jail on Sleuth For The Truth).
Exact Date and
Time a Youtube Video Was Uploaded
Right click on Youtube video to get the URL and
then paste it in the search box. Will also tell you how many views, whether
it's monetized and more.
YouTube
Comments Search
Paste the link to the YouTube video into the form to
sort comments by likes, replies or date or search comments by keyword.
Download
YouTube Comments For Free
Right click on Youtube video to get
the URL and then paste it on right hand side, then click "Export Youtube
Comments." For Windows users, check your downloads for a .csv file.
Read YouTube Transcripts
(youtubetranscript.com)
Taps into the metadata of the transcript and may
provide some words even without such.
Watch Youtbe and Vimeo in Slow Motion (See Image Below)
Copy video
link into the box and click "Watch Video" then adjust below,
options 1,2 and 3 which will control video speed.
Then click frame by frame on either button in #4. This will move the
video forward or backward at the indicated speed. Can jump to various
sections or play at normal speed by using the normal playback options above
this so you can get to the right spot to use the slow motion buttons.