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How To Do A Background Check

Posted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007

by Shawn Stone
Stone Investigations

The need to "check" someone's background has increasingly became more important in today's anonymous society. The internet has not only made it easier for people to hide their real identities from us but it has allowed the average citizen to have a huge set of tools at their disposal to conduct their own people searches and background checks.

We have all wanted to find a lost friend, family member or even conduct a background check on a new employee or person in our lives. In the past we relied on phone books and manually searching county and state records for our personal investigations. In the age of the internet this process can not only produce extensive search results but it can be delivered to us within seconds.

Their are plenty of free services available on the internet to help us conduct our background checks and people searches. Telephone and address databases, reverse phone number lookups and county court records are all available to us for free and will produce some good results in our basic investigations.

List of free people search sites and services:

www.whitepages.com - This service offers your typical white pages search as well as reverse telephone search. You can also email your search subjects straight from the white pages website for a fee of $9.95. This site also has more extensive paid searches as well.
www.reunion.com - While this site may be deemed more as a social site. It can also be used to get in touch with lost friends and family simply by posting in their "lost friends" section. With millions of members their is a good chance your lost subject could run across your posting.

The most useful sites for conducting a background check will be your county or state records sites. These sites are usually offer the following information:

Traffic court records
Civil suits
Criminal records
Marriage and divorce records

All but the most rural counties will have this information readily available to you on the internet. To find these sites simply do a Google search for your counties records office. These sites will provide you with any records that the county may have available for your background investigations.

In most cases these free services will not contain enough information to conduct an extensive background check. In these instances you may always turn to the premium services available on the internet. One service that stands out among the many is www.government-records.com. This service offers hundreds of different searches. An example of these searches are:

County records for all states
Military records
Judgments and liens
Bankruptcy
Sex offender records
Naturalization records
Nationwide civil suits
National criminal records
Ancestry archives
Birth and death records
National address and phone data

This service allows you to conduct a full background check and people search. The price is affordable and allows unlimited use of the sites database files. The old saying is true "You Get What You Pay For". So if you are in need of a professional service then you will need to check this site out.

Whatever method you may choose to conduct your background search always remember to think outside the box. If you know the address of the search subject contact the neighboring address and inquire about your subject. With a little perseverance you will always get your man.

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