The websites in this section help locate anyone including lay witnesses, and experts.

Accurint
http://www.accurint.com
Can locate almost anyone, find deep background and historical information, and shorten research time and costs. Accurint provides aliases, historical addresses, relatives, associates, neighbors, assets, and more. Used by lawyers, insurance professionals, law enforcement agencies with the latest cutting-edge technology, this site helps conduct searches much more cost-effectively than any other alternative.

American Fact Finder
http://factfinder.census.gov
Designed to simplify census research, this makes it easy to find social, economic or housing characteristics for any location. Tools help you create various tables either from predefined templates or using your own preferences, and generate maps illustrating data and statistics.

CataList
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
From this page, you can browse any of the 53,374 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites.

ChoicePoint
http://www.choicepointonline.com/
ChoicePointOnline Public Records. ChoicePoint is the leading provider of identification and credential verification services for making smarter decisions in today's fast-paced world. The Company serves the information needs of insurance, business, government and individual customers, including Fortune 1000 corporations, asset-based lenders and professional service providers, and federal, state and local governments.

DNS411
http://dns411.com/
This universal domain name search tool searches all available domain registries, including country codes, new top-level domains, interNIC handles and IP number block assignments. You can also use it to convert a numerical address to its domain name.

DocuSearch
http://www.docusearch.com/
Comprehensive site for detailed personal and company information and asset search.

Fed Law
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm
Hosts thousands of links to a variety of legal and regulatory sources, including federal laws, rules, and regulations; judicial decisions; some state laws; sources relating to arbitration and mediation; general research and reference sources; professional associations; and law related how - to locations.

Federal Citizen Information Center for Military Personnel Searches
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/call/locating_individuals.htm
The Federal Citizen Information Center Military Search Service gives answers to your questions about military personnel.

The Foundation Finder
http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html
Contains a list of private and community foundations which includes information about statistics and funding patterns.

Geographic Names Information System
http://geonames.usgs.gov/#db
The GNIS contains information for almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates.

GuideStar
http://www.guidestar.org/search
Guidestar has a database that allows you to research data on nonprofits. Guidestar also provides annual reports from nonprofit orgainzations and links to other nonprofit sites.

Info Space - The Ultimate Directory
http://www.infospace.com/
Yellow pages, white pages, international directory, city guide and business guide.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/
This site offers access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. From the legal perspective, it might be a good way to track down information that was on the web but is no more.

The Internet Public Library Association on the Net
http://www.ipl.org/
A public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. Their mission is to serve - finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources; teach - learn-by-doing approach to train information professionals and students to work in an increasingly digital environment; build - to develop technology and best practices for providing library services via the Internet; learn - to conduct research aimed at improving our services and increasing the body of knowledge about digital libraries and librarianship; share - to share what has been learned with the professional community; and grow - to develop a model and plan for long-term sustainability and growth for our organization and services.

KnowX
http://www.knowx.com/
Perform background checks; locate people, business and real property records.

Masterfiles
http://www.masterfiles.com/
Enables skiptracers to search Regional Bell Operating Companies Directory Assistance and Individual Reference Databases and Social Security Number Search for the most accurate information.

Merlin Information Services
http://www.merlindata.com
Merlin Information Services can assist you with your search in skip-tracing, marshalling assets, and backgrounding people.

Political Money Line
http://www.politicalmoneyline.com
This money and politics tracking site can be used fo finding people, work addresses, or employer names.

Privacy Exchange
http://www.privacyexchange.org/
A global information resource for consumers, commerce, and data protection worldwide. This site provides links to laws and codes, studies, legal analysis, legal library and news.

Property Record Searches
http://www.taxnetusa.com/
Tax Net USA is a comprehensive online source of property tax information. It hosts websites for many Texas County Appraisal Districts, which make information available to search by name, address or account number, many available at no charge.

Public Data
http://www.publicdata.com/

Public Records and Public Information - Resources/Public Information
http://www.virtualchase.com/people/public_records.html
Public records and databases of public information are sources researchers use to find information about people. Public Records in the People Finder Guide provides an annotated list of sources of public information.

Research-It!
http;//www.iTools.com/research-it
Here you will find a collection of search tools arranged in six categories: language, library, geography, financial, shipping and mailing, and Internet. This site is both useful and fun, you can even find the birthdays or quotes of famous people.

Rootsweb Social Security Death Index
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com
Database of deaths compiled from Social Security Administration records. Includes more than 65 million records and is updated every month.

Search Bug
http://searchbug.com
Allows you to reverse look up people with phone numbers and address. Includes search engines for companies and misc. information.

Search Systems
http://www.pac-info.com/
Top web resource for finding official records and publicly available information. Links cover U.S. and Canada, and are organized geographically. All sites are free, those that are not are marked with a dollar sign.

Search Systems
http://www.searchsystems.net/
Search Systems is the internet's largest directory of free public records databases on the Internet.

Skipease
http://www.skipease.com/
A fast, free skiptracing and collections platform for legal and layman research.

Switchboard Find a Person
http://www.switchboard.com/
Switchboard has consistently remained among the best white page directories on the Web. Create a map, search for a person or business, includes a reverse phone number lookup.

Terrafly
http://fiu.edu
This site helps you to view photos and satellite images of neighborhoods by address.

Terraserver
http://www.terraserver.com
This site provides photos of locations and aerial images from cities around the world. Some fees may apply.

TSSN.com
http://www.tsnn.com/
The ultimate tradeshow resource, just choose a topic e.g., legal services or enter part of the show name and you will get a list of upcoming tradeshows with dates. search can be refined by specifying date or city.

Unclaimed.org
http://www.unclaimed.org
Free national search site to locate your unclaimed property.

USPS Zip Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
Search for change of address or express mail tracking.

Vital Records Information
http://www.vitalrec.com
This site offers information on where to obtain vital records from anywhere in the U.S. It lists sources for each state, territ ory and county, and most cities and towns, along with contact, fee and ordering information. For records outside the U.S., the site list links to foreign vital records sites.

Webgator
http://www.webgator.com
This is a guide to investigative resources on the Web. A no-nonsense index, it lists links in categories ranging from Adoptions and Archives to Wanted Lists and Workers' Compensation.

Yearbook.com
http://www.expertclick.com
A very expensive searchable database of experts designed primarily for journalists, but anyone can search it for free.