Do Your Own People Search Online

Geri Spieler
2 min readJul 13, 2021
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Do you ever wonder what happened to your best friend from high school that you lost touch with?

What about a date with someone you connected with online?

What about yourself? What is out there online about you?

When I was researching my book about Sara Jane Moore, I needed to find people from all over the US using only the names I found from 30 years ago. I tested several of the sites using my own information to see how accurate they were and found most of them to be quite good. Many have a free level and then if you want more, you pay.

People & Background Check Sites

Intellius — Fee

Web Detective — Fee

usatrace.com — Fee

Net Detective– Fee

Pipl — Free + $$

Zaba Search — Free

White Pages — Free

Yahoo People — Free

PeopleSearch-Free + $$

There are several that will get you Social Security numbers, background criminal checks, but one in particular Spies Online.

From my home office, I was able to track down people who did not necessarily want to be found, but by being polite and letting them know I was writing a book and not looking for…

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Geri Spieler

Award-winning writer, master researcher, journalist, former Gartner analyst, non-fiction author. Reach me at gspieler@gmail.com