You can find details and information about someone whether if it's about a high school friend, a long lost family member. All you need to do is use this people search engines for free.

Step 1

Do your search using Google. Just use the name when doing your search and enter in into the search field that Google has.

Step 2

Use different people search engines. Make sure you choose a search engine that focuses on finding people. Some of the best sites that I can recommend are wink.com, spock.com and mylife.com

Step 3

Use phone directories. This is the magic in online searching, there are different phone books whether international or national that can help you search the whole United States.

Step 4

If the person that you are looking for have been on the news before, you can do your search in Google news and it can give you information for the name that you are searching for.

Step 5

Use the Social Security Death Index. This will help you find out if the person is still alive or has passed away already.

Step 6

Use intelius.com – this can help you do preliminary searches and will give you information like the city, age and names of relatives.

Step 7

Use Social Networks – a lot of people's information on these networking sites will usually show up in Google but can get lost easily. You can go directly to sites like Facebook or Myspace to see if the person that you are searching for is listed.

Step 8

Also try out Blogsearch or Google Groups to find more results and information.

Step 9

Do some searches on books. You can do this by searching in Google Books or Amazon books if the person that you are looking for has been mentioned in a book or novel.

Step 10

A site that you can also use is Jigsaw.com – it's a fee based site but can make you do initial searches for free and you will then find the company that the person is associated with.

Step 11

Familysearch is a great site to look for lost family members. This has been used in the 19^th and early 20^th years.

Step 12

Search public records. This is the site where if you know the city or the country where the person lives, you can find public records about him instantly.

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Feel free to check out my blog click on the link in the section below. I have reviewed the site MyLife for your benefit. Tell me what you think. Great place do start a free online people search. At least they prove themselves for free, before they ask you for anything.