Sad News About People Finders - Comments Page 2

I just checked out paca5's link, peoplesearchnow.com lots of very good info, for free.

also lots of erroneous info...

https://www.familytreenow.com/ has an amazing amount of information - pretty creepy - and for free. Billed as a genealogy site but good for general lookups of living people.

Does this people finder work in Canada/
Now I have been blocked by facebook for something ,I really do not know.THEY ARE USING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH against us , there was a post on Facebook AND A WOMAN WAS QUESTIONED BY THE USA SECRET SERVICE .I want to get off the Facebook but where do I go .I have been trying to get people to use skype but with no results. Is there a better program than Facebook.I see the owner is in court for selling info to 3rd parties. Thank you Bryan

Great article, Bob! This has been bugging me for the past several years, and I'm glad someone has written about it. Corporate greed is slowly but surely ruining the Internet we once new.

A couple sites that I still use are: 411COM (http://www.411.com/); Pipl (https://pipl.com/); abd True People Search (https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/).

Some info on these sites and can send messages.
https://www.geni.com/
(use "search people" on top right)
https://www.wikitree.com/

Good Article. I use Truth Finder routinely. https://www.truthfinder.com/login
It costs $27.78 per month. A bit pricey but the most complete information I have found among the beaucoup in the genre. I pay for it as I have frequent need to find folks and to update an address list. Family Search.org is good for genealogy, but as another reader pointed out, it is has some emails but is primarily for ancestry research, at which it is pretty good. Familytreenow is the most complete free site I have found. Again it is focused on genealogy but has a a surprising amount of other info.

Bryan Smith, the best one in Canada, I find is http://www.canada411.ca/

To find a current address and phone number, or to do a reverse phone search, I use www.addresses.com. Free.

I miss phone books. Finding a business is so difficult, as listings last forever online. Phone books were reasonably current and so easy to use. I would pay for a paper or online version with reliable entries for businesses, especially when I am seeking companies for projects at my home. The white pages were just as useful, again for being reasonably current and allowing people who wanted to opt out, to do so. With a google search, results include people in the wrong state, wrong city, and so much time is wasted. Cheaters can get my phone number by dialing every possible phone number, so I deal with them by returning to the old method of screening by using my answer machine. It wastes time too, but I have had enough of calls from recorded voices. On my mobile phone, I answer only for names in my directory.

Nobody here even questioning whether, overall, and on balance, we actually want a world where, with just a few details anybody can find out just about everything about us? Perhaps it's just too late and, as with many other areas, the idea of being able to choose to retain some semblance of privacy is outdated and naïve? I just thought somebody would ask the question.

Considering all the fuss we make about internet privacy (or lack of), why do we now want to find out such information? What if people don't want to be found?

Last year I received a phone call from Italy. It was from a man (from the US who was working in Italy) who was putting together info on the 94th Infantry Division from WW II, of which my father was a member.
He searched my father's name on Google and up came the entry I had uploaded for him in FindaGrave.com Not sure how he ended up with my number but thanks to FindaGrave he obtained enough information to track me down.Sometimes things can be found in unexpected places. Doesn't hurt to pursue all avenues!

Probably the best I've found in terms of getting more free info is Fast People Search:

https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Great article and very beneficial BUT i do NOT see any FB sharing buttons here. This is something to be shared to friends and the likes. Am I overlooking the buttons?

EDITOR'S NOTE: No, but you can just copy the page address, and paste into a Facebook post.

Try truepeoplesearch.com

I've been using Truthfinder with some success.

Try www.anywho.com for white pages and reverse lookup.

BeenVerified needs to do a better job of verifying their information. Another site that uses BeenVerified for their security verification asked questions that involved my son, but had no relationship to me.

I have one comment for this article -- "TANSTAAFL"
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

I don't care if people google my name and find my social accounts - they are as private as I want them to be. I really object to searchers being able to find my current and old street addresses and phone numbers. Credit reporting agencies and Social Security both use this info for ID verification. In particular https://pipl.com/ pulls together a lot of links (social media, linkedin, flickr) and from there links to https://whitepages.plus/ which has my address and phone number (and old defunct ph no).