Rollyo.com – Roll Your Own Search Engine – allows users to create their own search engine from searchrolls of their favorite sites.  View other users’ search rolls or ‘roll your own’. 

You can visit the Rollyo web site at Rollyo.com – Roll Your Own Search Engine .

The Toledo Blade published an excellent news article on finding old friends and classmates online.  The article lists some great free online resources and strategies for locating people from your past.  The information in the article can be used to find relatives and other people as well.

You can read the full article at Here’s How to Plug In and Search For Old Friends with the Web by Tahree Lane @ toledoblade.com.

Free People Search
Reverse Lookup
Public Record Search   

The Center for Disease Control maintains a convenient directory of state vital record sources and associated public record fees for obtaining birth record, marriage record and death record information. 

You can access the CDC vital record directory at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm .

Skipease launched major changes to our free people search and public record search site.  The new site is a major redesign with newly added people search and public record sources added. 

The new Site is divided into two main areas, with related categories:

1. People Search – contains free people search engines, reverse lookup, 411 white pages, nearby searches, yellow pages, business searches, deceased person searches, inmate searches, military locators, social security searches and map and satellite image searches.

2. Public Records – contains state, county and local public record searches; US Federal Government public record searches and business record searches.

The new Skipease site layout is easier to navigate and more user friendly.  If you have any comments, questions or suggestions regarding the new site, please post your comments at the link below this blog entry, or email us from the skipease site.

Thank you and good luck with your people and public record searches!

RateMyProfessors.com, a professor rating / review site started 6 years ago by a student at San Jose State University, now has over 4 million student reviews of college and university professors from over 5,000 academic institutions.  While the site is wildly popular with students, it is starting to upset university professors and administrators, with some threatening legal action.

You can visit the site at RateMyProfessors.com or read the article Prof Ratings Site Irks Academics by Joanna Glasner @ wired.com.

Do you have a phone number for a person that you believe is a public payphone number?  The Payphone Project has a public database of over 500,000 unlisted payphone number records that you can do a reverse payphone number search on – Reverse Payphone Number Lookup . 

If you don’t find the number on the payphone number search above, you can always try reversing the phone number on one of the major online search engines to see if the unlisted phone number can be found on any other indexed web sites. 

This special report from Credit & Collections World discusses the tightening of public records laws; the increased difficulty in skip tracing on debtors and new products and services being offered by public records and skip tracing vendors.

From the article ‘Reaching Elusive Debtors’:

It’s a difficult time to be a skip tracer. Months after security breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, the industry awaits its fate as legislators debate whether to restrict the sale of Social Security numbers or possibly create tighter rules for the data collection business.

You can read the full article Reaching Elusive Debtors @ creditcollectionsworld.com.

Knowing how to use search engines correctly will help you with your online skip tracing, people searches and public records searching. 

The web site Search Engine Watch has an excellent web searching tips guide.  They cover everything from basic search engine tutorials to power and advanced search engine use.   You can access the Search Engine Watch tips at web searching tips .

Good luck with your people searches and public records research!

MapQuest Inc. in a partnership with uLocate Communications offers a new communication and people locator tool that allows individuals with GPS-enabled cell phones and mobile devices to opt into group networks to find the exact location of other people in the same group.

From the Mapquest Find Me site:

GPS-enabled maps, directions, and points of interest. Let your friends
and family know where you are.

MapQuest Find Me is a downloadable application for your GPS-enabled
mobile phone. It allows you to pinpoint your location and find out
what’s nearby. You can also share your location with trusted people via
text messages or the secure website and get maps and driving directions
to nearby places.

The Find Me service has a number of other map and search features as well.  You can read more about the service at MapQuest Find Me .

We have discussed the Google Earth satellite image software that has been used by numerous people to discover everything from ancient ruins to military installations.  You can try the Google Earth software for yourself at Google Earth .