Skipease.com has just published a downloadable presentation of free people search tips with online people search tools for anyone out there who is trying to reconnect with past friends and family.

You can view, download and share the people search tips on scribd.com @ Free People Search Tips.

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We will provide short, ongoing updates on news, information and resources on people search and public records on our Twitter thread.

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Professional people finder and private investigator Robert Scott has produced an inexpensive web-based skip tracing seminar and eBook to teach professional people search techniques.

His Skip Trace Seminar is a useful tool for debt collectors; private investigators; skip tracers; repo agents; bail bond agents; judgement recovery professionals or anyone wanting to learn advanced people search skills.

The Skip Trace Seminar covers the following topics:

1. The skip tracer’s toolbox.

2. Finding people on the web.

3. Commercial people searches versus free internet searches.

4. Obtaining access to commercial people search databases.

5. Pre-skip tracing efforts.

6. The three types of skips.

7. Robert’s golden people finder strategies.

8. What credit headers are and how they can be used to find people.

9. Phone number records – the second most important source of information for a successful people search.

10. Using credit headers and phone number records together for a powerful skip trace tool.

11. Verifying or eliminating a person’s address(es).

12. A discussion of the active phone line exception.

13. The golden people search strategy – credit headers always come first.

14. The golden people search strategy in practice.

15. Overcoming dead ends by finding new leads in your skip trace.

16. The use of motor vehicle records in your people search.

17. Three of the best free internet people search engines.

18. The use of public records in finding people.

19. The use of people contacts in skip tracing.

20. Using information brokers, pretext phone calls and trap lines in finding a person.

21. The five common people search mistakes that new skip tracers make.

22. Search secrets of the expert skip tracers.

You can find out more about Robert Scott’s Skip Trace Seminar as well as view a free sample lesson at Skip Trace Seminar.

When most people think about the uses for an online mapping tool like Google Maps, they typically think of it as a good search engine for finding locations and getting driving directions, but have you ever considered Google Maps to be a good option for doing people searches and lookups?

The Google Map search is rapidly becoming a very useful people search engine, especially if you are looking for someone who works in a licensed or professional field. By combining information found on web sites with map locations as well as user contributed information; Google Maps is becoming a good way to find location and personal information on people.

Let’s run through a few example people searches, using Googe Maps, with links to results ( use the loc: handle in your map searches to specify the location of the search) :

1. A general people search for John Doe in the state of California would look like this – John Doe loc: California.

2. A more specific people search for John Doe in the state of California, using quotes around John and Doe would give these results – “John Doe” loc: California.

3. Here is an example of a general people search for John J Doe in the state of California, using a middle initial – John J Doe loc: California.

4. Another people search example for John J Doe in California, using quotes around the name to narrow down the results, would look like this: “John J Doe” loc: California.

5. You can also specify both a city and state in you Google Maps people search by using the loc: handle with the city and state names after it. For example, a search for John Doe in Los Angeles, California would look like this: John Doe loc: Los Angeles, California.

There are numerous options for doing people searches, using the Google Maps search engine. You can do a nationwide search for John Doe in the United States, like John Doe loc: United States.

The possibilities for doing free people searches using Google Maps are endless. The more you practice searching for a person on Google Maps and the more information Google adds to their map search in the future, the better this tool will get for finding and locating people.

Good luck with your people searches.

There is a lot of “buzz” now about Web 2.0 sites being the top “go-to” places on the internet. Web 2.0 can best be described as the “social and collaborative web”, where people do social networking on MySpace; blogging; wiki building on WikiPedia or sharing videos on YouTube.

However, there is a new and unique way of looking at Web 2.0 from an investigative, skip tracing and public record research point of view. Let’s face it, as more people blog, network and share information online, the amount of personal data being published on the internet is astounding. This makes free people search and public information research easier for the PI, skip tracer, public record researcher, legal and law enforcement professional, as well as everyday people who want to find past coworkers, friends, military buddies etc.

For anyone wanting to conduct a free people search or public record information search in the Web 2.0 world, here are some great starting points:

1. Blog Searches – Search blogs for real names as well as nicknames or known user id’s for the person you are looking for or researching. Some of the better blog search engines include Technorati.com, IceRocket.com and blogsearch.google.com.

2. Social Networking Sites – The amount of personal information, including school information, work history, residential information etc. that people post on these sites is growing at an amazing rate. You should try your people searches on some of the more popular social networking sites like MySpace.com, FaceBook.com (school email address required for registration), Friendster.com or Xanga.com.

3. Photo & Video Sharing Sites – Try searching for people’s names, nicknames or user id’s on photo and video sharing sites like Flickr.com, YouTube.com or photo recognition site Riya.com.

4. Jobs & Classified Search Sites – People post a wealth of personal information online in the form of resumes. You can search classified sites like Craigslist.com or Edgeio.com in addition to some of the top job search sites like Monster.com.

5. Social Mapping Sites – Flickr.com has recently added geo tagging to its photo sharing site, so users can match photos with map locations that can be searched by other users. Eventually, social mapping sites will contain millions upon millions of personal pictures (many of people) that will be geo coded or tagged so people will be able search photos with keywords and pinpoint the resulting pictures with a map location. No doubt, many of these photos will be tagged with real names and nicknames of friends and family, making visual people searching on maps very likely in the near future.

These are just some of the many ways Web 2.0 will make the world of people searches and public information research smaller and smaller. Good luck with your searches.

The MySpace social network has over 100 million people registered. Every day over 200,000 new people register for a MySpace account.

Private investigators, skip tracers, legal professionals and law enforcement officials cannot ignore the wealth of public information and free people search opportunities that exist on this growing social network.

MySpace offers a very functional search page for doing people searches on their site. You can search for people by key words, real names, user ids or email addresses. You can also search for people or classmates by school name, country and region.

You can access the MySpace people search @ MySpace People Search.

If you are looking for a past friend, relative, coworker, classmate, military buddy etc., you may want to post a message on the Zaba Search message boards regarding the person you are looking for. Hundreds of people post to this free people search service everyday and many are successful at finding the person they are looking for.

You can visit the Zaba Search message boards @ Zaba Search Message Boards.

Here is another post for our popular free people search tips with online free people search resources. You can print the list out or download the Adobe PDF file to your PC for use or distrubution to others.

The Top Free People Search Tips and People Searches to Help You Find Friends and Family Members.

Skipease.com has compiled a list of handy reverse phone number and reverse address lookup tips. You can access the reverse lookup tip sheet @ The Top Free Reverse People Searches and Reverse Lookup Tips

If you are trying to locate the whereabouts of a family member that you have lost contact with, the Salvation Army Family Tracing Service may be able to help you.

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Salvation Army Family Tracing Service