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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
Have An Old Address Of A Missing Person?
If you are searching for a missing person and have their old address, here is a FREE investigative trick, provided by the head of our OmniTrace research department–Chris Maione. This may allow you to identify and contact prior neighbors of your subjecct:
First, visit free web resource www.zillow.com.
- At the top of the Zillow homepage, there is field where you can input your missing person ’s old address.
- After submitting your search, you will see a map of the neighborhood where your missing person once resided (you can view this map in street view, aerial view and hybrid view).
- The old address, that you submitted will appear, as well as tiny icons that represent homes surrounding the address you submitted.
- By clicking on the icons, you will obtain exact address information.
- Jot down the addresses surrounding your subject’s old address. In particular, you will want the addresses on the left, on the right and directly across the street from the old address of your subject.
Then, visit free web resource www.whitepages.com.
- On the upper center of the home page, click on Read More
County Sheriff Can Help You Find Missing Persons
County Sheriff – Find Missing Persons

Nearly every county in the USA has a County Sheriff Department that handles non-municipal law enforcement situations. A County Sheriff Office can be a great resource to help you find missing persons such as: missing family members, missing birth family, lost children, and persons in hiding.
The County Sheriff handles the county jails, inmate transportation, outstanding warrants, vehicle accidents on county highways, non-municipal crimes, sheriff sales and more. Needless to say, they have a lot of data on a lot of people.
If you think your subject(s) are in a particular county, don’t Read More
Locate Someone Free – Search The White Pages!
Locate Someone Free
You can locate someone free by searching the White Pages. These are available free via the Internet as well as hard copy telephone books.
Our researchers often use free online telephone directories and telephone books to locate someone and verify their address and phone number information. We have our own library of telephone books covering cities all over the USA as well a list of our favorite online white page web sites.
So, why do we use hard copy telephone books instead of online white page directories to locate someone free? Good question! We mainly use older telephone books to Read More
The County Clerk’s Office Can Help You Search For People
Search For People
A while back, we wrote a post on how to search for people with free help from the city clerk’s office. You can read that post here: City Clerk’s Office Can Help You Find People.
When you search for people and you know the county where they reside, the county clerk’s office is another great free resource. Here is a nice website to help you find any county in the USA: NACO – Find A County.
An easy way to find the address and phone number of a particular county clerk is to Read More
Staying Organized and Keeping Good Notes Will Help You Search For Someone Lost
Search For Someone Lost
When OmniTrace begins a new search for someone lost, we ask our client, who is requesting the search, for as much information as possible about the lost subject of the search. We take extensive notes and use the following worksheet (feel free to make a copy for your own use):
During the course of a search for someone lost, we attempt to fill in all the blanks in our worksheet. We also take notes on any research that we conduct such as: Read More
Searching For Someone? We Can Help You!
Searching For Someone
Have you been searching for someone without success? Perhaps you are considering using the services of a professional search company, such as OmniTrace.
Why not visit the many search pages on this website first? We have compiled hundreds of free investigative tools and links that may allow you to find the one you seek. To get you started searching for someone, click here:
How To Find Missing Persons

How To Find Missing Persons
Do you want to learn how to find missing persons?
Join the club! Just about everyone is interested in learning how to find missing persons in this transient / mobile world of ours. Perhaps you want to find your lost love or an old friend. Perhaps you lost track of someone you met online. Perhaps you are an attorney searching for a key witness for a court case or a missing heir to an estate.
What point are we going to make here–you’re probably dying to ask?
Our point is this: All missing persons cases are nearly created equal. How you successfully solve one type of missing persons case will Read More
Find Anyone Anywhere – Free
Find Anyone Anywhere Free

Please use the following links to find anyone anywhere. And guess what? It’s all FREE!
Find Anyone Anywhere
Find people anywhere. Don’t forget to check out our state by state people search resources. Just click on the state abbreviation of your choice.
Adoption Reunion Registry
Sign up with the ISRR. Perhaps you’ll find that your birth family members are looking for you. You have nothing to lose. It’s free!
Genealogy Websites
We have gathered some of the best free genealogy search resources on the Internet. Combine genealogy techniques with modern day database research to find anyone anywhere.
Military Buddy Search
We’ve selected the best military personnel locator websites on the Internet. Here are tools you will need to find your lost military buddy.
People Search Websites and Whitepages
We are providing, in our humble opinion , the best, free white page directories and people search websites available to find anyone anywhere.
Prison Inmate Search
Find information on any prison inmate anywhere.
Public Records Websites
Here we provide our favorite, free public records websites where you can Read More
Our Free USA People Search Website Is Growing!
Our FREE USA People Search Website!
On our OmniTrace blog, you will find only the best, FREE people search tools and resources to find people.
Why our people search website is the best free resource available:
- Private investigators, people search experts, genealogists and computer nerds built the site.
- We teach you how to use our FREE people search resources.
- Our search team is giving free assistance if you have any difficulties with your people search.
- We are offering free searches to many of our visitors.
- We are giving people search advice to help you find old friends, lost loves, birthparents, adoptees, lost family members, military buddies, missing heirs and more.
To get started with your people search you can click on some of the following links:
- Find People Free
- Free Genealogy Search
- Free Public Records Search
- Free Prison Inmate Search
- People Search Websites and White Pages
- Military Buddy Search
- Free People Search Alabama
- Free People Search California
- Free People Search Florida
- Free People Search Texas
Please come back often as we continue to add new people search pages. We’d appreciate if you let us know how we can make our website better. You might even be rewarded with a FREE people search!








