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Almost everyone will eventually start to think about ex-boyfriends or M T W T F S S
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girlfriends that have moved away. Whether they’re old school friends or
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even relatives, it is sometimes trying to know how to even start a
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successful search. You might dedicate hours or even days trying to find
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someone through former places of employment, previously attended
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schools or the military, but at each step you will have to make dozens
phone calls, possibly submit detailed requests in written form, and
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To start you will want to do is take a couple of minutes thinking about RDF 1.0
the person you’re trying to get back in touch with. Consider any

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of birth. If you know their birthdate this will also help on your search.
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Try to recall any unique aspects of their personality, likes, dislikes
and/or quirks about the person. VALID XHTML
Now that you’ve tried to remember any specifics about the person
you’re going to want to open up whatever web browser you use and surf
over to google.com. Try looking for their full name, nicknames and any
variation of their name that they would go by back when you knew
them. Also try adding the names of places they may have lived or
worked along with their name as that sometimes will help filter the
results.
Next step is to type in an old email address that they once had leaving
out the domain name into the search engine. It is common for people to
keep the same account names used for accessing email, even if they’ve
switched providers/carriers. If you discover several people with the
same name, try clicking on the results and see if anything looks like the
person you’re trying to find. Sometimes people bring their personality
with them to the web, even if they try not to.
If you’re suspecting that they’re the type who’d have some sort of online
profile at any of the many social networking sites like Myspace or
Facebook then you’d want to check out yoName (www.yoname.com), a
free search engine that polls a big number of the popular sites for
profiles that match whatever details you’re able to provide about the
lost friend (whether email address, full name or otherwise). For
individuals with common first and/or last names this may require a bit
of time on your part to go through all of the results, but it’s pretty well
organized and will usually show any photos available next to the search
terms to help assist you in going through the results. If you have an old
cell phone number (or even landline) of theirs you can try searching for
a reverse cell-phone lookup.
The Social Security Death Index is a database of any deaths reported to
the Social Security Administration since 1962, when death records were
finally entered into a computerized database. I must add though that the
absence of any specific death record does not necessarily mean the
person is still alive. Most newspapers will also let you query their
obituary sections online to see if your missing person may have shown
up there.
If you believe they may have joined any type of licensed or certified
profession (like doctors, lawyers or accountants) you can try searching
the records of local trade organizations. Most people have at least one
hobby or special interest and this can be a big help to you on your
search. For example, if the person you’re looking for plays the banjo,
search through the online listings for local bluegrass or country shows.
This may lead to you coming across the person’s name, address, the

3. name of the band if they’re in one and hopefully even a venue where
they are scheduled to attend. You never know, if the person has always
wanted to become a instructor or loves soccer, there are millions of
other possibilities.
If you still can’t find any information on your missing person, I hate to
suggest it but you may find yourself in need of Inmate Search
(www.thempamperedprisoner.com). The site is pretty bare but it hosts a
list of contact information for each state system for finding inmates. In
addition it also has links to search through the listings of federal
prisoners. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of options for looking
through all the states at once so knowing the state in which they’d be
most likely incarcerated helps quicken the process.
As a last resort there are numerous pay-services on the internet that will
do the search for you. You can always find these agencies pretty easily
on portals like Google. If you decide to pay a missing friend service to
look for the person you want to find, be sure to understand the fine print
before sending in any credit card information. You want to be positive
they are a legitimate company before giving anyone sensitive
information.
Using this guide can help reconnect you with lost friends and loved ones.
It’s amazing what (and in this case, who) you can find on the web these
days. To get more information on finding someone online please go visit
the local-whitepages.
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