People Search - Finding People Using Your Computer

Searching for someone you have lost contact with used to be costly and could involve hiring a private investigator. Now you can search for people while sitting at your computer. With so many public records and databases available on the internet anyone with internet access and willing to spend some of their time can locate almost anyone.

The cost is minimal, and if you have determination your chances of success are great. What makes finding people on the internet so easy are the new people search engines, these specialized search engines give you speedy, accurate access to information that years ago you would have had to hire a private investigator at great expense to find for you.

General search engines like Google and Yahoo are not the best way to search for people. Private people search engines are optimized for locating people, making them a much better choice. Search engines like Google and Yahoo make you look through thousands of listings before you can find the information your looking for, not very efficient if you ask me.

When first starting a people search you should collect as much information as possible about the person you are looking to locate.

Having a drivers license number, employee id, or most important of all a social security number will make your search much easier. If this information isn't available there are ways of finding it online.

Some steps that you can use to gather information online to find a person are listed below:
1. Do a profile search
2. Do a social security trace through the credit bureaus
3. Search voter registration
4. Search UCC filings, these are lien searches

There are other people search databases, from post office change of address records to driver license information and vehicle registration records.

But the easiest method would be to use one of the people search engine databases, they have all information in one easy to look up location that makes searching for a person so much faster and much more likely to succeed.

Tony C. James has been involved in the data information business for many years. Visit his site now tjpeoplesearch.com