First Step

The first step in any People Search is to collect together all the information you have about the person you are looking for. Information to write down could include:

• Their date of birth
• Their full name
• The address they lived at when you lost touch
• When was that?
• Names of any of their family
• Names of friends
• Their job
• Their hobbies
• The church they went to
• And anything else you can think of

Place all this information in a file and as you do your research you can add notes of any phone calls, visits, searches on the Internet and in the library. It is important to write everything down so that you can go back and check up on any facts you may have missed.

When you begin a People Search you never know how many corners you will have to turn before you find the person you are looking for.