Googling People By Their Address, Phone # or Email (Consumer-SOS)
Don't just find out their name. Background them.

Reverse Lookups-Find The Name, Email, Street Address Or Phone # When You Have Only Limited Information (Consumer-SOS)
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!

See Finding Their Neighbors (Consumer-SOS)

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".

PO Box Lookup-Finding If The Address Is Really A Concealed PO Box Or Finding A Business Or Person Through Their Post Office Box

Home Or Cell Phone? (Backup Site)
Enter the area code and first three digits for a "telco" code. Then look up the code in their FAQs section for what it means. Note as of 2004 cell phones don't come up on reverse Internet phone book searches (the free ones). But they may turn up on the search engines if listed on a website.

See Find & Background People By Their Public Records

Name, Chat Groups & The Search Engines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Broken Link Even with Google Cache?
Enter web address into the Way Back Machine and hit "take me back". Shows info on website from years ago.

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

People Search Advice Plus Links (Consumer-SOS)

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.

Plug the web address into the Way Back Machine by entering the website URL in the search box and hitting "take me back".

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.

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 "Last name, First name  and MI". If you are not sure of the correct spelling just type in the first few letters of the last name. For example, you could enter SMITH JOHN E, SMITH, or even SMI.

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

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

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

www.lostmoney.com

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Age & Relatives

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

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

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

People Finders.com
In one search, find out their age, the places they've lived and the names and ages of their relatives. Ages not always accurate. Then use look up sites below to get their phone numbers and addresses.

http://www.zabasearch.com/ (Caution! Ages Not Always Accurate!)
May give you their birth year and month, a phone number and their actual street address. Click on the name and it will enter it in the search engines for you.  Click on the address and it will do likewise and also give you a satellite photo of the area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examples of proper input:

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

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

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Businesses (Finding People By....)

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

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

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

Their Websites (See Also Find Out If Two Websites Are By The Same Owner)
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...

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

Trademark/Service Mark Search (Illinois only, Not Federal Marks)

Their Federal Trademarks
Search for a trademark or Patent in the USPTO database and get the trademark owner's name, address and telephone #. Do Federal Searches first, then search for state trademarks.
Can also look for European and Canadian trademarks in the International database.

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

Their Patents (US Patent database)
Enter in the person's name for their address and the patents they own. Or use the patent to get the name and address of the patent owner.

Their Business Networking Sites

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

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

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

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Find People By The Company They Own

Corporate/LLC Search / Certificate of Good Standing (Illinois)

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

Corporate Lookups On Line (All 50 States)

Non Profit Look Up With Just An Org Name or Zip Code-Find The President & Officers, Their Salaries, Addresses And More (Not All Non Profits Listed)
Learn about a non profit's assets, its mission statement, its president, etc., with just the org's zip code or org name or tax ID!
With the The Non Profit 990 Finder, also see the salary and director information that must be disclosed to the IRS. Note: 990s may be missing for small non profits that receive $25,000 or less annually.

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

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

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

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

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By Their Profession/License Or Certifications

Banking

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

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

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

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CPAs

Illinois Professions A-Z
Enter in a last name and profession to see if licensed, disciplined and their city and state.

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

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

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Doctors

Physician Profiles (Illinois)

Illinois Professions A-Z (Includes Doctors But Not Lawyers)
Enter in a last name and profession to see if licensed, disciplined and their city and state.

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

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

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

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Government

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

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

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

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

State Employee Directories (Google)
Can't find your state? Simply add your state as the last word in Google's search box.
i.e. Government and State Employee Directories California
Government and State Employee Directories  "New York"
 

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

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

Maricopa County Salaries

California

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles City Employees Salary Database

San Francisco (Earning over 100k)

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

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

Silicon Valley State Employees (Search Box)

Chico City Salaries

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

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

Marin County (only those who earn over 100K)

Colorado

Colorado State Employee Salary Database

Colorado Community Colleges Employee Compensation

University of Colorado Employee Pay

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

Delaware

Christina School District Salaries

School Employees Earning over $100K

Florida

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

Escambia County Employees (Includes City of Pensacola)

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

Georgia

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

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

Guam

Staff Salaries

Hawaii

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

Idaho

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

Illinois

Illinois School Teacher Salaries

Cook County Employees (Includes Chicago)

Indiana

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

Bloomington Area Salary Database

Morgan County
Scroll down to search by name.

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

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

Iowa

Iowa Salary Search
Search by last name or department.

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

Kansas

Salaries for Kansas and Missouri Counties & Universities

Kansas Government Officials (Limited List)

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

Kentucky

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

Louisville Employee Salaries

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

Maryland

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

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

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

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

Michigan

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

Teacher Pay Series (Scroll to Bottom For Figures)

State Senate Staff Members

State Court & Appeals Salaries (Support Staff Too)

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

Missouri

State Employee Salaries

Database of Government Employees
Search by name or department.

Montana

Billings City Employee Salaries

Nebraska

Nebraska Blue Book Information  

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

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

New Jersey

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

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

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

Rutgers University Employees

Morris County Employees

New Jersey Salaries (State & A Few Counties)

School Administrator Salaries

New York

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

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

Duchess County Salaries

Niagara County Salaries
Search alphabetically by last name.

City of Vestal (Near Binghamton)

Village Of Port Dickerson

Yonkers School Employee Salaries

North Carolina

State Employee Salaries

University of North Carolina System Salary Database

Other Salary Databases

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

Ohio

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

Salaries of Seminole County Public Employees (2002-2003)

Oregon

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

City of Portland (Top 500 Paid Employees)

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

Pennsylvania

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

Susquehanna County Salaries

Public School Superintendents

Rhode Island

Salaries of Elected Leaders

Top 100 Salaries

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

South Carolina

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

Midlands Salary Database

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

Tennessee

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

State Salaries For Tennessee & Virginia (2006-2007)

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

Texas

Houston Area and Harris county Public Salaries

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

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

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

Vermont

Vermont State Government Salaries

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

Burlington City Employees

Vermont State Colleges

Virginia & DC Area

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

State Salaries For Virginia 2006-2007

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

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

Washington

Washington State Salaries

Washington State Teachers Salaries

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

Pierce County

City of Tacoma

School Employees

More Counties Salaries

West Virginia

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

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

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

Wisconsin

Milwaukee City, County Salaries (Includes Teachers)

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

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

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

Wisconsin Public School Administrator Pay Database

Canada

Ontario Public Sector Salary Disclosure

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

Misc. Salaries

Major League Soccer Player Salaries

Top NBA Salaries

NHL Players (2006-2007)

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Lawyers

Verify a Lawyer is Licensed To Practice In Illinois
May provide business information as well.

Lawyer Disciplinary Reports And Decisions Search (Illinois)
Search using a last name to see if the attorney has been disciplined and for what.

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

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

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

For More On Lawyers, 
See Lawyers, Courts And Self Help 

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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, doctors and CPAs too!

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Pilots

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


Radio/DJs

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

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Real Estate

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

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

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

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

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

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Stock Brokers

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

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

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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Teachers

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

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

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

See Also Government

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Other

By Their Occupational License (Consumer-SOS) 
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. 

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

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Find Their Neighbors

Neighbor lookup
Whether you're complaining about the noise, or forming a neighborhood watch, here's how to get in touch with your neighbors. Note: when your neighbors live in an apartment complex with one address, do several searches by entering different house numbers in the house number box. i.e. search with 100, then again with 200, and then again with 300 etc.

See Reverse Searches (Consumer-SOS)

See also Backgrounding By Their Phone #, Email or Address (Consumer-SOS)

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

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

MySpace (To Photo Search, No Sign Up Required)

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

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

See Finding Friends, Associates & Hidden Relationships

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Liens

UCC and Federal Tax Lien Search (Illinois)

Find People By Their Liens (UCC Filings, Info in Many States)
UCC filings will often provide the name and address of the lien debtor or lien creditor. For more UCC filings, check the corporations division of your Secretary of State.

Public Records In All 50 States & DC
Good for finding info on court records, liens, real property, etc. in every state.

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

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Court Records

To find someone via their trail of crimes, lawsuits and traffic tickets, make sure to check out their local county and city web pages.  Then look for local courts and the Dept of Public Safety.

Fed Bureau Of Prisons Inmate Locator (Past & Present)
For inmates from 1982 to the present, gives their name, inmate register #, current age, race, sex and date released.

Sex Offender Registries (Most States)
Punch in a name (first, or last or both) and get their photo, description and address.
To search the most states click on National Search. For others sites click Here or Here. 

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

Bad Debt & Bankruptcies (Consumer-SOS)

U.S. Tax Court (1986-Present)
Persons involved in litigation with the IRS may be found here. If a case is found, the actual court file may contain tax returns or other important financial information.

US Tax Court Opinions (Many cases before 2001 will not be listed)
Search by last name and leave the rest blank.

Court Cases Through Pacer
Get free online case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts, and from the U.S. Party/Case Index. Registration is free and so is your first $10 of usage.  You'll never be billed for anything if your annual use is less than $10. 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.

Check out suits on Bankruptcy, Civil Rights, Contract, Federal Tax Suits, Forfeiture/Penalty, Labor, Other Statutes, Prisoner Petitions, Property Rights, Real Property, Social Security, TORTS: Personal Injury/Personal Property.
 

Illinois Circuit Court: Criminal & Civil Court Records
For counties covered and date range of records covered, click Here.

State Prison-Those Serving Time or on Parole (Illinois)

Request State Prison Records of Past Offenders By Email (Illinois)

Other Illinois Court Records

State Criminal Records Across All 50 States & DC (Misses A Lot of Records But Still Worth It)
Choose "All States" to see if subject committed crimes in several states. Records presumably come from each state's Department of Corrections, Administrative Office of the Courts and Department of Public Safety. If you want to find records with the first name “Randy” or “Randall” put an asterisk after “Rand” (Rand*) and the search will return both. This doesn’t work with the last name field.

County Jail Search (Throughout All 50 States)
Find out if the person is or once was an inmate, or if they have an outstanding arrest warrant.
Some counties keep records for just 30 days. Others go back years.

Criminal & Civil Records
Has state or city county information for AZ, ARK, CA, FL, GA, HI, IL, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, NC, OH,  PA, SC, TN, TX, WA, WV, WI. Check for new states!

All Federal District Court Docket Info From Jan 2004 To Present
Enter in the person’s last name to see if they have criminal or civil cases against them. Search all district courts at once or choose your state. Information may include the Plaintiff, Defendant, Case Number, Date, Court Location, Nature Of Case and more.

All State Court Cases From 1997-Present & All US Appeals & Supreme Court Cases (No District Court Cases)
Enter in the person’s first and last name to see if they have criminal or civil cases against them. Search all states at once or use "Advanced Search" to search locally. Free sign up required to view whole case.

For best results, do two searches: one with and one without quotes.
Example: "Graham Firestone" or Graham Firestone

Search Full Text of U.S. Supreme and Circuit Appeals Courts (Excludes State & District Courts)
To find a Plaintiff or Defendant, put their first and last name in the "Exact Phrase" box. No Hits? Then try again in the "All of the words" box. Click Here for years and cases covered.
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Criminal Records (Many States)
Select "All Records" and then choose your state. Has lots of links to criminal databases, traffic records and civil cases too.

State & County Inmate Locators
Counties include the following cities:
Arizona (Phoenix, Tucson), California (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino),
Florida (Ocala, Orlando, Tampa), Georgia (1/2 Atlanta, Lawrenceville),
Illinois (Chicago), Indiana (Indianapolis), Louisiana (New Orleans),
Ohio (Logan), Tennessee (Memphis), Texas (Denton).

State Prisoner Locators (13 states)
Find who's in prison in AR, FL, GA, CA, MI, MN, NC, NY, OH, PA, SD, TX and UT. 

Public Records In All 50 States & DC
Good for finding info on court records, liens, real property, etc. in every state.

Links To Other Public Records That May Also Include Court Records (All US)
Choose your state and look for court, prison and property records.

State And County Inmate Search (Numerous States & Counties)

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

Corrections & Rehabilitation Departments (Most States & DC)
Search for people in state prison. Online resources may vary from state to state.  Click Here For County Jails or Here for some city jails.

State Police & Public Safety (Most States & DC)
Find arrest records or links to such. For Missing states, 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.

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.

HELP!!! I CAN'T FIND THE CITY/COUNTY I'M LOOKING FOR!!! (Consumer-SOS)

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Local Newspapers

 To find more information, do a word search in the local newspapers and/or check out the homepage of the local library.