About the Author: Mary Ann Boyle, PhD is a licensed private detective and forensic genealogist who finds missing persons and conducts genealogical investigations for court cases. She shares her secrets for investigating missing persons and identifying kindred.
Many online search sites used to offer telephone numbers, addresses, employment info and dates of birth. This is before they decided to become profitable and only offer teaser data with the promise of “premium” data for payment of fee. Today, databases that used to offer valuable data, anywho and whitepages, offer only partial data with the opportunity to view a Comprehensive Report. I’d be careful paying for these ‘comprehensive’ reports.
Review all obituaries in appropriate newspaper for anticipated publication date. This technique will pick up alternate spellings of surnames or hyphenated names. Review obituaries in hometown newspape
When looking for missing persons, the death of any relative might be helpful. If you are looking for John Jones Jr, this is an ugly task because of the commonness of the name. Perhaps you know that Jo
Obituaries are very important in finding missing persons and information about people. If you are looking for the family of a deceased person, the obituary will give the names and often the location o