Need to find someone
or somewhere? Here's some good places to start.
411 Locate (offers
reverse phone lookups in addition to its other features)
www.411locate.com/
Ancestry.com (a free
Social Security Number search for deceased people, good
for hunting up genealogical information)
www.ancestry.com/
AnyWho (combination
people and business finder, with a strong reverse
telephone lookup)
www.anywho.com/
AnyWho's Tollfree
Telephone Lookup
www.tollfree.att.net/tf.html
AOL Government
Directory (makes it easy to find and contact national
government officials; not restricted to AOL users)
government.aol.com/mygov/
AT&T Help/Search:
Directories (large, easily searchable yellow/white pages
directory)
www.att.com/directory/
BellSouth Yellow Pages
www.yp.bellsouth.com/
Big Yellow (huge
yellow pages)
www.bigyellow.com/
Canada (AOL-only
resource for everything Canadian)
Keyword: CDN
Canada Francais
(AOL-only resource for everything Canadian, in French)
Keyword: CDN Francais
ClassMates (a database
of people hunting for old friends)
www.classmates.com/
Directory List
(up-to-date links to the ever-growing number of search
directories out there)
dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Phone_Numbers_and_Addresses/
Freeality (an
all-in-one site that provides links to numerous lookup
services)
www.freeality.com/findet.htm
Google People Finder
www.google.com/help/features.html#wp
Infospace (a good
place to start)
www.infospace.com/
Internet Address
Finder (e-mail directory; my last visit to this site
crippled my browser, so be warned)
www.iaf.net/
KnowX (lets you search
public records for free or for often-nominal fees)
www.knowx.com/
MapQuest (enter an
address and get detailed driving directions from your
place to theirs)
www.mapquest.com/
MESA E-mail Locator
(find e-mail addresses; interestingly enough, I found 10
matches for my own name, none of whom were me)
mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/
Payphone Project
(global index of payphones)
www.sorabji.com/livewire/payphones/
PeopleSite (free
worldwide BBS that allows people looking for each other
to post messages in various areas)
www.peoplesite.com/
Real White Pages (not
only phone and address info, but you can even find
neighbor listings with similar addresses)
www.realwhitepages.com/
Switchboard (large
Yellow and White pages listing)
www.switchboard.com/
Teldir (international
white/yellow pages directory)
www.teldir.com/
The Ultimates (large
meta-finder site, with white and yellow pages, e-mail
directories, and a trip planner)
www.theultimates.com/
Video Yellow Pages
(multimedia-enhanced business search engine)
www.vyp.com/
WhoWhere?
International Directory Links
www.whowhere.lycos.com/wwphone/world.html
WhoWhere? Personal
Home Page Lookup (find your target's home page along
with address, phone, and e-mail info)
www.whowhere.lycos.com/
WorldPages
(comprehensive American and Canadian database with links
to global Internet directories and map makers)
www.worldpages.com/
Yahoo! People Search
(formerly Four11; not the best directory, but a strong
source for e-mail addresses)
people.yahoo.com/
