You can do a person search to locate a person with only these two pieces of
information – the name and last known address on who you are doing a person
search on.

The following are strategies using these two piecies of information:

Locate a person using the Post Office records strategy

To locate a person, mail a letter to the last known address of who you are doing a person search on. Be sure to write on the front of the envelope “Address Correction Requested”. If the post office has a current address of the person you are trying to locate, they’ll forward it to you.

Use telephone, city/suburban and cross-reference (crisscross) directories strategies to locate a person

Many people are not aware of the techniques to do a person search by using the telephone directory. You will be surprised by the steps you can take to locate a person just by letting your fingers do the walking. Most public libraries keep local phone directories from past years – up to thirty or more years. The main library, if the town has more than one, is your best bet in finding what you need.

To locate a person when searching for names in the phone directory, the first part of the name of the person your’re searching for may not be listed as you may think. You may know the person only by his or her nickname. Or,the name you called this person could be his or her middle name, and you never gave it a thought that it wasn’t the person’s first name. Therefore, the first part of the name may be listed in the phone directory under his or her nickname, middle name, or birth name. Also, the missing person may have it listed with initials in different combinations such as first and middle initials, first name and middle initial, or just one initial with the last name.

Obviously, when you are trying to locate a person, you may not find the phone number because:

• the phone number is unlisted
• the person moved to another city
• the person may have remarried and has a new name that is unknown to you

In this case, to locate a person, call the phone directory assistant to check for a listing for the
person with the last known address for the individual that you are doing a person search for. The directory operator can tell you if the person’s phone number is unlisted or if the person you’re trying to find still lives at the same address or in that same area.

As I said previously, many public libraries keep local phone directories from past years. These older telephone books come in handy because the person you are looking for may have been listed. All you need to do to locate a person is search for the former address in the directory of the year that you think that the person may have lived in that location.

Then use the criss cross directory to find the addresses of the former neighbors.
Click here for explanation of criss cross directory. Check the address from the criss cross directory to the current phone directory to determine if the neighbors still live at those addresses. If not, then use the current telephone directory to locate the former neighbors current addresses.

Then call them. Hopefully you will find a neighbor who remembers the person your trying to find and knows where this person currently resides.

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