# Good free people finding website? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 6, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537 "2013-08-06T22:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/1 "2013-08-06T22:41:56Z")
An old pal asked me to find his long-ago ex-wife for him. Friend is blind and believes I am a leet hacker with the computer. I do not wish to disabuse him of this notion. [411.com](http://411.com) didn’t help. There was a site a few years back that gathered info from a bunch of different sites, but I have forgotten the name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/2 "2013-08-06T22:46:26Z")
Did you simply try Google? What information do you have about the person? You can add various possibilities and put information in quotation marks to cut down responses. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/3 "2013-08-07T03:48:15Z")
Try [pipl.com](http://pipl.com) or [zabasearch.com](http://zabasearch.com) ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/4 "2013-08-07T11:45:26Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > Try [pipl.com](http://pipl.com) or [zabasearch.com](http://zabasearch.com) There are myriad sites that will do a ‘people search’, [zabasearch.com](http://zabasearch.com), [intellius.com](http://intellius.com) and [pipl.com](http://pipl.com) are but a few. To do a really thorough search may entail paying a ‘private investigator’. As other posters have already stated, google is the place to start. The more information that you have on this person, the better your odds of locating them. You state that this is an ‘ex-wife’, do you know if she has remarried and/or relocated? 😕 These might be important clues in deciding how and where to search. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/5 "2013-08-07T12:33:01Z")
Facebook can be pretty fantastic for this. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/6 "2013-08-07T12:46:21Z")
Ex-wife, so he should have her social security number on an old tax form. You should be able to find out loads of information for under $50 which in my book is practically free when you consider the amount of time you will save. If you wanted to be shifty (and quite possibly illegal) you could run a free credit report under her name. I do not recommend doing this. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/7 "2013-08-07T14:34:17Z")
The ones I like/use, in decreasing preference: > **[PeopleSmart - Find Professional Contacts](https://www.peoplesmart.com/)** > > PeopleSmart helps you find business contact info for millions of professionals. Search for prospects by > company, job title, industry, or social profile. [http://www.usa-people-search.com/‎](http://www.usa-people-search.com/%E2%80%8E) > **[Whitepages](https://www.whitepages.com/person)** > > The Official Whitepages > **[Intelius | People Search, Background Checks & Phone Number Lookup](https://www.intelius.com/)** > > Find people instantly. Search for someone by their name, phone number or address. Intelius provides phone numbers, previous addresses and background checks. > **[Popular Name Searches | Zabasearch](https://www.zabasearch.com/)** > > Find people, addresses & phone numbers for free using ZabaSearch's database of public information. Use our reverse phone lookup to find out who's calling you. (usa-people-search used to be my favorite but it doesn’t return as much info as it used to.) If you are looking for a woman and only know a maiden name, try also [classmates.com](http://classmates.com), reunion/alumni sites for the school, etc. If she has used a previous last name in the past 10-20 years, the above will probably have it. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-people-finding-website/665537/8 "2013-08-07T21:48:38Z")
Thanks for all the replies. pipl is what I was thinking of. I found her through Google, had to do some sleuthing and backtracking, but I did find her. My friend still thinks I’m the berries.