Deep web people finders should be used in conjunction with apeople search enginefor maximum results.
Wayback Machine
Archive of billions of web pages.
Catalogs blogs, websites, news articles, and more.
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Vast site is overwhelming.
It’s a database of hundreds of billions of pages archived from 1996 to the present.
I’ve successfully used Wayback Machine to dig up old blog pages that I can’t find anywhere else.
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FamilySearch
Over 1 billion unique profiles.
Search by name, place of birth or death, and birthday or death date.
Strangers can view or change family trees.
Partial numbers and full addresses in results.
Some users express privacy concerns.
Most clicking takes you to another site.
Zabasearch is an extraordinarily effective invisible web people search engine.
View or print full page PDFs of patents.
Search before 1976 by issue date, patent number, and U.S. classification.
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Must have information about the patent for an effective search.
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Interesting collection of search tools.
Useful tools to find information about people.
Get 1,000 search credits for free.
Charges for tiers of credits after free credits are used.
Some tools require you to make a user account.
One of my favorite tools here is Personator.
It verifies if someone’s information is correct.
In just a few seconds, it reports back to say if all of it matches an identity.
192.com
Specializes in searches for people in the U.K.
Basic search requires only a name.
Doesn’t list the source of the data.
Registration and credits are required for most listings.
Voter Registration Information
Reveals the most recent physical address.
Likely more trustworthy than most other methods.
Usually must know the person’s birthday.
Might work only in the US, and in certain states only.
Might be outdated if they haven’t voted recently.
A little known fact is that you could find someone’s home address using just their name and birthday.
This is possible by looking up the person’s voter registration information.
