Sunday, January 07, 2007

Email Searches

Find a person's email address by entering their name. This search is available through:

411 Locate E-mail Directory

Addresses Email Address Search

Bigfoot Find Email

EmailFinder

IAF.net Email Address Search

InfoSpace Email Search

Lycos People (after searching for a person, click on Email)

Pandia People (be sure to check the Email Addresses box)

PublicRecordFinder.com Email/Domain Address Finder

Switchboard Find Email Address (at the bottom of the page)

WhitePages.com Email Search

Yahoo! People Search Email Search


To search several of these directories easily:

My Email Address is...

The Ultimate Email Directory


Additional Regional Email Directories can be found at:

EmailAddresses.com

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Table of Contents (v3)

SECTION I - PERSONAL RECORDS IN CYBERSPACE

    Links will be added as chapters are updated.
    Until then, the
    v2 Table of Contents will link you to older chapters.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Cyberspace (v3)

Chapter 2: Database Searching

Chapter 3: The Internet, Bulletin Board Systems, and Personal Information

Chapter 4: A Few Sample Searches

Chapter 5: A Word About Privacy


SECTION II - HOW PERSONAL RECORDS ARE USED

Chapter 6: Locating People

Chapter 7: Pre-Employment Screening

Chapter 8: Recruitment and Job Searching

Chapter 9: Tenant Screening

Chapter 10: Asset Searching

Chapter 11: Competitive Intelligence

Chapter 12: Identifying an Expert

Chapter 13: Prospect Research (Fundraising)

Chapter 14: Private Investigation


SECTION III - TYPES OF PERSONAL RECORDS

Chapter 15: Biographies

Chapter 16: General Indices

Chapter 17: Telephone Directories

      Chapter 18: Staff, Professional, and Other Directories

      Chapter 19: Mailing Lists

      Chapter 20: News

      Chapter 21: Photographic Images

      Chapter 22: Quotations

      Chapter 23: Bank Records

      Chapter 24: Business Credit and Company Financial Records

      Chapter 25: Consumer Credit Records

      Chapter 26: Criminal Justice Records

      Chapter 27: Department of Motor Vehicles Records

      Chapter 28: Death Records

      Chapter 29: Tax Records

      Chapter 30: Medical and Insurance Records

      Chapter 31: Public Records

      Chapter 32: Adoption Records

      Chapter 33: Celebrity Records

      Chapter 34: Genealogical Records

      Chapter 35: Political Records

      Chapter 36: We the People


      SECTION IV - WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION?

      BOOKS

      PERIODICALS

      ORGANIZATIONS


      APPENDICES

      Appendix A: Databases That Include Biographies

      Appendix B: Book Directory Databases

      Appendix C: Business Credit and Company Financial Databases Including Personal Information

      Appendix D: Professional and Staff Directory Databases

      Appendix E: Other Directory Databases Containing Employee Information

      Appendix F: General Encyclopedia Databases

      Appendix G: Magazine, Newsletter, Newspaper, and Periodical Directory Databases

      Appendix H: Databases That Include Photographs

      Appendix I: Quotations, Speech, and Transcript Databases

      Appendix J: Telephone Directories

      Appendix K: Adoption Registries

      Appendix L: Major Bulletin Board Vendors

      Appendix M: Public Records Producers and Vendors

      Appendix N: Other Database Vendors

      Appendix O: Companies and Associations That Can Help To Remove Your Name from Mailing
      Lists

      Appendix P: Have I Missed Anything?


      INDEX: Click on Search This Blog (at the top of the Blog)

      Books: Background Research/Investigative Reporting Books

      Lane's Books, in association with Amazon.com, offers these books on background research and/or investigative reporting that we think will be of interest to you. If you have suggestions for additional books, please e-mail us.



      Friday, November 17, 2006

      Books: Adoptee/Birthparent Search Guides

      Lane's Books, in association with Amazon.com, offers these books on adoption/birthparent search that we think will be of interest to you. If you have suggestions for additional books, please e-mail me.



      Books

      Welcome to Lane's Books! Lane's Books, in association with Amazon.com, offers these books on locating personal records, background investigation, genealogy, books on privacy, and others that we think will be of interest to you. If you have suggestions for additional books, please e-mail us.

      Our own #1 bestseller is:



      Naked in Cyberspace, 2nd Edition
      by Carole A. Lane
      Cyberage Books; 2nd edition; July 31, 2002
      ISBN: 0910965501


      Browse through the rest of our titles, by subject:




      Friday, June 16, 2006

      Reverse Directories: Searches by Address

      Reverse Directories: Searches by Address

      Some online telephone directories allow you to search using an address in order to find the name and telephone number associated with it. This kind of reverse directory is useful for identifying the people in a given house, or even all of the neighbors in a neighborhood. Some will even allow you to import those you find into Outlook (a contact management system), which is rather nice if you are just moving into a new neighborhood; imagine having the names and telephone numbers of all of your new neighbors automatically loaded to your computer before you've even moved in.

      Some of the reverse directories allowing address searches include:

      There are also reverse address searches based on public records, rather than telephone directories. The initial search is often free for these, but the detail records are sold. An example of this is:

      Tuesday, June 13, 2006

      Reverse Directories: Searches by Telephone Number

      Reverse Directories: Searches by Telephone Number

      Some online telephone directories allow you to use a telephone number to search for the owner's name and address. These are often referred to as reverse directories. These are particularly useful for investigating whose telephone number is appearing on a phone bill or in a cellphone call log. Some of the reverse directories allowing telephone number searches include: