A Guide to People Finding

Find Long Lost Relative or Friend

If you are looking for living friends, relatives, or lost cousins, there is a good chance you can find them online. Today, there are telephone directories that are online and searchable, making it easier than ever to find people.

In addition to online telephone books, there are many other databases that are useful for people finding that can be found in the links below:


Person Finder
A free step by step person finder. Search for long lost loved ones, birth parents, or friends using person finder techniques and search engines. You will learn different ways to find people who are living or who may have recently died.


Reverse Directories
Use a reverse directory to find the name of a person by entering a US or Canadian phone number or address. Also find a city or area by entering the name of an area code or zip code.


White Pages Phone Directories
Search for a person's address and phone number by searching the online White Pages.


Yellow Pages Phone Directories
Search for addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of businesses for genealogy use - cemeteries, newspapers (for obits), churches (for baptismal, marriage or death records), and other records repositories.



Searching for Birth Relatives
If you looking for your birth parents, try this fact sheet for families from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which covers such topics such as the decision to search, the steps in the search process, hiring a professional searcher, international searching, reunion issues, and the steps in the search process.

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