Find Missing Persons – Call A Skip Tracer

Skip Tracer 101

Skip tracers are professional searchers who specialize in locating people such as debtors and deadbeats (people who owe money).  Skip tracers often work for companies that are owed a lot of debt such as banks, credit card companies and utility companies.  Skip trace departments within these companies can be a great source to find someone you suspect owes money. 

Skip Tracers are constantly tracking down and developing current address and current employment information on debtors and deadbeats.  Skip tracers typically rely on using the phone and employing various pretexts (phone tricks) to get debtors and deadbeats to reveal their locations.  Sometimes this can be more effective than database or Internet Searching.

If you suspect the person you are searching for owes money to a specific company or companies, contact their skip trace departments and see if you can enlist their help.  (If you are searching for your deadbeat husband or dead beat wife, you may have possession of Read More

OmniTrace Assists Producers Of MTV’s True Life

OmniTrace is assisting the producers of MTV’s True Life:  I’m Looking For My Child. 

Here’s what MTV says about their documentary series:

“MTV’s Emmy-nominated documentary series True Life, explores remarkable real-life stories of young people and the extraordinary subcultures they inhabit.  Crosstown Media, a production company that produces many of the True Life episodes – is currently accepting submissions for their latest episode – I’m Looking For My Child.

Having lost contact with a loved one is a difficult situation for anybody – and when that loved one is their own child, that feeling of loss and desire to connect (or reconnect) must be significantly greater.  True Life wants to explore what it’s like for a young adult who desperately wants to unite (or reunite) with their long-lost child…and we want to document the journey of that person trying to make their dream come true.

True Life takes an intimate and unobtrusive approach to their storytelling.  The entire production crew consists of just one person – a producer with a camera…that’s it.  We capture the story over the course of approximately two months.  Because True Life is a Read More

Requesting Adoption Records

Adoption Records

Requesting your adoption records in a closed adoption records state, while sometimes daunting, is definitely worth doing.  You may obtain:

• Non-Identifying Information (Redacted Adoption Records)
• Information On The State Reunion Registry
• Intermediary Program Details

Obtaining your non-identifying information (redacted adoption records) can be very helpful in finding your birth parents.  We have already written several posts covering non-id, but because this subject is so important, let’s review again (we’ll cover reunion registries and intermediary programs in our next post). 

Non-identifying information / redacted adoption records typically contains Read More

Dave Betz– President of OmniTrace–Is Now On Twitter!

Dave’s twitter location is at:  twitter.com/DaveBetz. 

There you can follow Dave–The People Search Expert– in real time as he reunites birth families, finds missing persons, traces dead beat dads, tracks down witnesses for important legal cases, locates missing clinical trial patients, tracks down heirs to large estates and complains about his broken Sony Bravia TV set.  (The list goes on and on   ). 

Perhaps more important to you, Dave will be tweeting about how you can win a FREE Birth Parent Search valued at $1295.00!

And of course, you can write Dave on Twitter about your search.  He’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Twitter is a social networking platform that allows people to connect with friends, family and professional services like OmniTrace.  Sign up for free and start following Dave today.