FIND INFORMATION ON PEOPLE
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If you want to find information on people and are doing all the detective work yourself, one of the first places you should visit is your local library. Depending on where you live, there may be several kinds of libraries and resources available to help you with your free people search.
There are many kinds of libraries that can help you find information on people, including grade-school libraries or media centers, to city libraries and university libraries. For a free people search, you need to visit the city or county library (the public library), and if it is within distance from where you live, visit a college or university library (the academic library). And for some of you who are fortunately enough to live close to the Library of Congress or the National Archive, you have the best of all worlds.
The public library and the academic library will offer you a great deal of research help, including assistance from librarians like myself. And the best part is that you will not need to pay any money.
Useful tools to help you find information on people would be things like the city directory, the phone directories, the reference books and books that you can check out, archived newspapers, and the computer resources (databases). Of course, the reference librarian could also give you some pointers that you might not have considered.
As mentioned previously in another section, city directories are great in that they can help you to find people by address. Just look up a street address and the city directory will tell who is living there. Of course, if you are in a small city, the public library will more than often only have the local city directory.
Now, if you have access to the Library of Congress, you could have access to almost all major cities in America, including international city directories. Let’s say that you are trying to find information on people who are abroad, this would be a very helpful resource. The international city directory found at the Library of Congress will tell you exactly who is living on what street address in a foreign city.
Larger public libraries will have phonebooks for surrounding cities, so you might try that. For example, if you live outside of Omaha, Nebraska, your local library may not have the phonebooks for surrounding cities in Nebraska. However, a trip to the public library in Omaha will give the resources to phonebooks that the local library may not have.
Most larger public libraries and academic libraries will have old newspapers, probably on microfilm, which you can look through if you know certain information about the subject in your people search. For example, a news article on your subject might give you a lead that you did not know before, such as the name of a best friend.
Newspapers also have obituaries for most published deaths in the surrounding area, going back to most of the 20th Century. If you know the city, call the reference librarian at the local library and he or she may help to do an obituary search for you.
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