About Going Online to Research Contact Information

When you research contact information, most websites will require at least a last name. It is easier to find the person if you know a first name and an approximate location, for instance the state they live in. It will bring up everybody with the same last name if you only use a last name. They may even ask for an approximate age.

The more you can narrow the search down, the more likely you will be able to find the right person you are looking for. Some websites will bring up a phone number. Others may bring up an address where the person lives and sometimes an email address. Remember when searching that there may be another person by the same name living in another part of the country. So if you know that the person lives in Michigan but it brings up somebody living in California, it's probably not the same person. There are a lot of websites that offer this free of charge.

Others will charge you to give you the information. Something else you should keep in mind is that these websites will list any address or phone number that they have for that person and you may have to narrow your search down. One way to find the websites that will help you is to do a search. Some examples of searches that would bring these up are people search, find phone numbers or find address. If you are looking for a business, you can just type the business name right in the search engine.