People Search Review

I was making one last concerted effort to locate my missing sister recently and discovered that a lot of the People Search facilities on the Internet did not live up to their advertising hype. I was very disappointed in the results provided by some of them and the service level was virtually non-existant in all but a few.

My sister married a Church of England Boy in 1972 and because my family were strict Catholics my parents had a big problem with the marriage and refused to speak to the married couple. Even though I continued a friendship with my sister and her husband my parents asked me to try and broker a settlement and a return to constructive dialogue after about 5 years. So in 1977 I spoke to my sister about joining me at a restaurant with my parents and resuming a quality relationship with them. They both objected to this proposal and then disappeared within a week and I had no means of contacting them even though I tried various methods over the next 28 years.

This time I was determined to locate them and I had some new information that had come to hand suggesting they were living in a resort town 4,000 km to the north of where I lived. But I was drawing a blank on the People Search services that I tried and I was becoming frustrated with the lack of basic information and poor customer service available.

I decided that I would review the most commonly used services for finding missing people and start with some known data on some prominent people and some criminal type people. Using this method where I allready knew the results that I was expecting led to some very surprising results.

It seems that the vast majority of these People Search services simply do not deliver the information that you are paying for and I found that the results that I bought were incorrect, outdated or missing important information. All of them advertised that they were the best source of information for missing persons and that they could provide full civil records and information of criminal records.

I was indeed lucky to find a handful of sites that delivered what they promised and provided helpful guidelines to assist getting the best results. Once I had located these six sites I really punished them by doing numerous searches and checking the results against the information that I already knew. Four sites came through this grueling test proceedure and the results and the recommended companies appear in the list below.

I am pleased to say that I did find my sister and her husband and their very large family of children and grandchildren and went to visit them late last year. Locating them proved to be very easy once I was using the right People Search tools to find them. I was astounded because within 2 minutes of starting my search I had their address and phone number and was talking to them on the phone.

The Overall Winner

This site found my sister in less than one minute and the thing that truely amazed me was that it is a free service. MyLostRelatives was extremely easy to use and had the quickest response to my enquiry of every site that I tested. MyLostRelatives uses resources from many areas on the internet and recommends other places to visit if the information there is more relevant.

The Most In-Depth Information

If you need to perform in-depth background checks on companies or individuals then you cant go wrong with this excellent service. The Net Detective is extremely popular with newspaper reporters and private investigators with good reason. The Net Detective maintains one of the largest investigative databases on the internet.

The Best Reverse Search Service

When you have incomplete data or don't actually have a name to search you can start a reverse search from Reverse-Records where all you need is an email address, phone number or license plate and you will quickly have the desired persons name and full address.

The Best Reference Guide

Sometimes people do not want to be found and they are working as hard to cover their tracks as you are working to try and find them. Generally these people have had some instance where they have come to the attention of the law and so a very valuable research tool is the CourtRecords because they have a huge collection of public record resources. This CourtRecords Service does not provide any information as it is a list of resources and you need to contact the particular resource to get the information that you require.

All of these services provided me with excellent customer service and the information they gave me was second to none. They each have an unconditional money back guarantee that you are not going to need at all because the standard set by these businesses was very professional as they are aimed at the professional Private Enquiry Agent.