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It has never been easier to find someone. While you used to have to visit the County Clerk’s Office or find your local Tax Assessor’s Office, plenty of online tools and databases are available to help you find a person online.

While your first thought might be to jump on Google and start entering the information you have available, what if we told you there’s a better way? In fact, at PublicRecord.com, we offer a people search tool that can help you find someone by entering their first and last name, city, and state. Plus, plenty of other methods are available as well.

Read on to learn more about how to find someone online.

What Information Can You Find Online?

Before we send you off on a search to find information online, it’s important to determine what you can even find online. While it’s common knowledge that you can enter an address into a search bar and learn more about it, what else can you find? 

The short answer is that you can find anything that’s a public record online, as long as it’s not hidden behind a paywall. As long as information has been uploaded to a website or social media platform, you shouldn’t have problems finding it online.

This means you can find the following information with the right tools:

  • Someone’s name 
  • Contact information 
  • Criminal records 
  • Court records
  • Sex offender status 
  • Licenses 
  • Relatives 
  • Address information 
  • Zoning records
  • Social media accounts 
  • Information about a business 
  • Dating profiles 
  • Tax information 
  • Property liens 

While this is the bulk of what you can find online, this information is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, you can find much more depending on the person.

How to Find Someone Online Using PublicRecord.com 

At PublicRecord.com, we offer a handful of tools that can help you find someone online, so there’s not only one way to search. 

While the people search tool is the most common, we also have an address lookup tool and a reverse phone lookup tool. These tools function in a similar way as our people search tool, but you can use them with different information. 

Learn more about each way to find someone online with PublicRecords.com below.

People Search 

The best way to find someone online with PublicRecord.com is to use our people search tool. What makes this tool special is how simple it is to use and the amount of information you can find by using it.

To get started, all you need is someone’s first and last name, city, and state. From there, our high-powered people search tool will do the rest and compile a full report by combing through millions of public records databases across the United States. Within the full report, you can find the following information:

  • Date of birth 
  • Marriage records 
  • Court records 
  • Sex offender status 
  • Criminal records
  • Email address 
  • Phone number 
  • Dating profiles 
  • Social media accounts 
  • Relatives and friends 

Aside from this information, you can also find websites and other information about someone by using people search tools. Overall, if it exists online, you can find what you’re looking for with PublicRecord.com.

Reverse Phone Lookup 

The reverse phone lookup tool is the best option if you need to find someone online with a phone number. 

You can enter their phone number into the search tool to find any matches. When you run a reverse phone lookup with PublicRecords.com, you can find out who a phone number is registered to, the phone service provider, and much more. 

In fact, you can use this method to learn more about unknown or private phone numbers once you uncover the phone number using a vertical service code (VSC) or by speaking with your phone service provider.

The additional information you can find with our reverse phone lookup tool includes: 

  • The name of the person associated with the phone number 
  • Business information about toll-free numbers 
  • When a number was first registered 
  • If the phone number is active 
  • Where the phone number is from 
  • The phone service provider of the caller 

Overall, you can learn anything about a phone number that’s publicly available using our reverse phone lookup tool. 

Address Lookup 

At PublicRecords.com, we also have an address lookup tool you can use to find information about someone online. It can help you find out who lives at an address online, as well as much more about the address. For example, you can find out if the address is owned by an individual, business, or even the government.

What’s more, our address lookup tool can help you find the following information about an address:

  • The owner of the property 
  • Title information 
  • When it was last sold 
  • How much the property is worth 
  • Tax information 
  • Contact information for the property 
  • Liens on the house and other problems 

You may find some or all of this information depending on the type of property. That said, some addresses might not have public information available due to the type of property. For example, you can’t find details about military installations and other classified properties.

Other Ways to Find People Online 

PublicRecords.com is the best place to find people online. However, it’s not the only tool you can use. For example, you can enter someone’s name into Google’s search bar to find someone online, and if you’re lucky, they will show up right away. 

Additionally, social media, private investigators, and even dating websites can help you find someone online.

Learn more about some of the other ways to find people online below.

Google 

We give Google a lot of grief when it comes to people searches, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find what you’re searching for. In fact, Google is designed to help you find things online, so with the right keywords, you shouldn’t have any problems.

For the best results with Google, make sure you run an advanced search. These searches allow you to add more keywords and additional information to the search, which can help you narrow your options. Plus, if you have a photo of someone or have seen a video, you can try using Google Lens or additional tools from Google to find what you’re looking for.

Social Media 

One of the best ways to find people online is to use a social media account and connect with them on social media. This can help you find someone online because most people who use the internet have a social media account. For example, Facebook has more than two billion active users, which makes it the most used social media platform in the world.

Aside from Facebook, you can also use Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and other social media tools to find what you’re looking for. That said, most social media platforms tend to have millions of users, and people tend to have multiple accounts. Therefore, if you aren’t having luck with Facebook, you can always try Instagram or X (formally Twitter) instead.

If you don’t know where to start, you can always use one of our people search tools to find the social media platforms that people use. It’s a great way to narrow your search, and if you’re lucky, we can also help you find their email or username.

Public Records Databases 

Depending on what you’re looking for, you might find what you need in a public records database. These are databases that are hosted by government agencies or local offices like the County Clerk’s Office. Not every town or city will have one of these databases online, but it’s worth a shot if you’re looking to find out where someone lives, death records, or other important public information about someone.

You can also visit courthouse websites or sex offender registries for each state to find someone’s criminal record online. These databases tend to have the most current and accurate information available, so it’s worth checking them out if you have something specific you’re looking for. Plus, they’re more in-depth than Google and some people search websites.

The only drawback to using a public records database is the fact that you have to check several of them. Essentially, you need to go to each specific database if you want to find information about someone, which can be time-consuming.

For this reason, we recommend using a third-party tool first to help you narrow your search to a specific database if you have to – the right tool for the job is our people search tool.

Find a Person Online Today 

Finding a person online has never been easier. Search engines like Google have made it possible to search the internet in a matter of seconds, and search engines like PublicRecords.com are now doing the same thing when it comes to finding specific information about people. For this reason, we always recommend using PublicRecords.com when you want to find someone online. It’s the best way to find accurate and current information about people online.

That said, plenty of other tools are available as well. If you haven’t had any luck with PublicRecords.com, other search engines might be able to help. You can also try social media or other platforms that contain information about people. 

Mark Simon

Mark Simon

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