Many of us have moved away from the place of our birth, often thousands of miles away. This can be a traumatic and stressful period which generally gets easier with time. However after a period of time we may start to long for old friends and family again,if you are trying to track down a long lost loved one, you obviously know the persons name and it's can be relatively easy- well it makes the task of tracking down the person easier.

It's when you are looking for someone whose name you are not really sure of, that the real problems start. How do you go about looking for someone when you do not even know who you are looking for? Maybe you have stumbled upon an old address or phone number or they have married and since changed their name. Maybe you are trying to get in touch with the person electronically. You would need an e-mail address. It is possible to get information on people with relatively little background knowledge?

There are websites that allow you to locate people by their address, phone number, or email address;

Using Yahoo! People Search you have access to updated addresses as well as phone numbers of long lost family, friends, classmates and business colleagues. Yahoo! People Search helps you to find people by address using their white pages which they offer free of cost. The options that are currently available include US address and Phone Search.

WhitePages.com is an online directory with small resources that allows you to conduct reliable yet simple and fast searches with the small amount of information you have at hand. You could search using a name, phone number or address, e-mail, zip and area codes.

Switchboard.com is a more advanced interactive business search directory, that holds the names and address of over 20,000 people in more than 2,000 categories. You could use this search engine to find people by address through the site's white pages section. A nice feature of Switchboard is its additional Reverse Lookup section.

However probably the most comprehensive site is Reversephonedetective.com, if you want information on a certain cell phone number, then you're better off going straight to ReversePhoneDetective.com. You will quickly find out what you need to know, and the service is backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

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