Is there any free service that can tell you where old friends are now? For instance, I have a friend who I am wanting to look up; however, she got married and moved a few years ago. I know the college she started out at, and approximately when she moved, but that’s about it. The sites I have found want to you to pay for this service.
Do you know her new last name? If so, you can look up phone numbers by geographical area using switchboard.com. You can contact the alumni office at the college she went to. If they know where she is (many keep good track), they might be able to pass a message to her for you. They usually won’t give out that information directly.
For free, you can start with Google.
Google her maiden name in quotes (“Jane Doe”) to find any references of her under that name. If she has a fairly common name try “Jane Doe” “yourhomestate” to narrow it down to her. Then try her maiden name and college name or state if she was out of state for college.
Then try her name with no quotes, to help find her wedding announcement. Jane Doe. And maybe the state she got married in (your state, or her college state.) There’s a good chance her wedding announcement would have “Jane Smith (nee Doe)” so that wouldn’t show up as a match on Google when you use “Jane Doe” but would be a good “proximity hit” as “Jane” and “Doe” are close together in an article.
You can also Google her parents’ names to help with a wedding announcement. If you find that, then you will probably find her new last name and state, which you can “run” through a peoplefinder like www.anywho.com
You can get pretty far with Google, you just have to be crafty.