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AddressSearch.com
Provides the ability to easily look up U.S. email addresses in two ways: 1) By the input of first and last names and selecting a state, with additional mailing address input options, and 2) By input of email addresses, called the Reverse Option. More than 95 Million email addresses and 140 million mailing addresses are included in the database.

Alumni Net
"Bringing school friends together." Search by country, then institution.

Ancestry.com
A genealogy research site that includes the Social Security Death Index as well as the early American Marriage database, listing more than 75,000 American marriages prior to 1800.

AnyWho Directories
A Web-based directory service site that integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with Internet-based contact information such as e-mail addresses and Web Site URLs, toll-free and fax numbers. AnyWho features over 90 million consumer and over 10 million business listings.

Classmates
Excellent resource for finding old high school friends and acquaintances. Isn't it amazing how everybody else in your class has aged but you?

Confi-Chek Information Provider
Fee-for-service access by state to UCC filings, articles of incorporation, birth, marriage and death records, driving records, professional licenses, warrants, and much more information than you'd think, or would probably want, to be accessible. Click the Price List link for a complete listing of services available, some as little as $1.00. Primary focus is California.

FinderMonkey People Finder
A UK-focused people search that employs professional researchers to conduct its fee-based searches. Easy to use, the site enables visitors to locate missing friends in the UK, long-lost relatives, and land registry documents. The name of the site notwithstanding, I was not able to find Nanners, my pet monkey that escaped on a visit to the UK in 1969. But then again, Nanners was never into my groovy Carnaby Street-paisley thing. It's only been 40 years, but I'll keep looking.

GTE SuperPages

Geneaology Gateway
A gateway to more than 42,000 resources. Get started by clicking the Beginner Help and Information link. Other sections let you search by surname, check out Ancestral Homepages, or post a link to your own family Web page.

InfoSpace
White and Yellow Pages, or use the Search by Phone link for reverse telephone number lookup.

Intelius
Using this fee-based service, you can search for individuals by name, address, phone, maiden name, plus run criminal and background checks, request marriage and divorce records, death records. Expert assistance is available.

International White and Yellow Pages
Names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers.

Internet Address Finder
More than 6.7 million listings. Search by name or by e-mail address.

Marine Corps Guest Book
More than 20,000 marines registered.

National Military Reunion Registry
Search the database of more than 7,000 military reunions.

PeopleFinders
Search dozens of databases and billions of records, by name, address or phone number. Search-result report fees range from $9.95 to $39.95.

PeopleSite
An online search community, using the power of the Internet to present your search message to millions of individuals. It’s free to join and no charge to post or search messages.

Reunion.com
A great way to find out if your high school, family or military unit is holding a reunion, or you can create a page for an event that you are organizing.

Reverse Look-Up
Supply whatever information you have: area code, phone, street, city, state, e-mail address.

Social Security Death Index
I never feel like doing a happy dance when visiting this site, but it is a wonderful resource despite being a bit on the maudlin side. More than 60 million records including individuals who died after 1962.

Switchboard
Find a person, business, e-mail address, maps and directions.

The Seeker
A relatively large site where you can search and post under Relatively Seeking, Militarily Seeking, Generally Seeking, and Seeking Beneficiaries

U.S.Search
A fee-for-service search site from which you can obtain background checks, criminal reports, real estate reports, credit reports, and more. Click the All Products link to review a complet listing of all available reports and pricing.

Usenet Addresses
Search for email addresses if you know the name of the person or the name of the organization that provides their address. More than 4 million email addresses reside in this database of email addresses collected from Usenet postings between July 1991 and February 1996.

Virtual Gumshoe
Its mission is to be a one-stop resource for public access information and investigative tools. Run by investigators for investigators, researchers, journalists, and others, the people behind the site invest thousands of hours finding, updating and continually researching public access records. Both free and paid resources are accessible via the site.

Who's Who Online
A searchable database that contains professional and biographical data about individuals who are part of the Internet community. Profiles and contact information provided by the individuals themselves.

WhoWhere
A broad offering of look-up services, including personal phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, business directories, toll-free numbers and difficult-to-find government offices.

WorldPages
For searches outside the United States and Canada. Click “More Search Options,” followed by “Search International” to access international directories.