How to Find People
How To Find People In The UK
Finding people is something that we do every day at FinderMonkey.co.uk we have the latest systems to find people and can do so quickly and cost effectively. We find people for a wide variety of reasons such as
- We find people who owe people money
- We find people who have absconded owing rent
- We find people who are land owners and property owners
- We find lost family and friends from years gone by
The first three are very hard to do yourself, you may have some success but you would be doing a lot of research and learning an awful lot as you went about locating these kinds of people, you may also have to use a company like ourselves any way to obtain some information for you. If you do get stuck or would like to look at a cheap, cost effective way to locate someone you have lost touch with have a look at our People Finding Service, it works on a No Trace No Fee basis so if we can't find them there is no charge.
The last one, locating family and friends from years gone by can be done by the public, it can be interesting to track down an old friend or a long lost cousin to catch up and reminisce but how do you find these people? Well if you are fancying tackling this yourself there are systems and tools out there that can help you to find people.
So what do you need to learn how to find people in the UK? Well firstly you’re going to need a computer but seen as you are already reading this, I’ll presume that you have. Secondly I’d recommend paper and pen but that’s just how I work, some of my colleagues use a paperless system but I like to make notes as to what I have done and who I have contacted. Finally a telephone and an inquisitive mind.
You can search the internet several ways, firstly you can search directly for the person you are looking for, so you might try Friends Reunited or Facebook to see if the person you are looking for is on there, this is a quick and easy way to find people and the truth is, they may just be on there, you might even need the pen and paper! If you’ve tried this and their not on there what can you do? Well you can try a Google search to find people, simply put the person’s name in Google and the location and see if there are any web pages relating to that person, these could be on local news websites or maybe your long lost cousin is a bird watcher and has recently won a competition, their name could be up in lights on the internet right now.
If these direct searches don’t work you can always try accessing information about people, so you could try `123people.co.uk, this site will look for email addresses of the person you are looking for. You could try searching the white pages (the phone book) for the person you are looking for, calling people with the same name, this is where the pen and paper come in handy , it good to keep a record of who you have spoken to so you don’t call them again. The phone book is now on the internet and unlike the 118 numbers it is free to use as many times as you like, a great way to find people.
These are just a few ideas and if you’re really stuck you could try and order a trace from us and see what we can do, the main difference between ourselves and all you would be investigators is purely the resources we have available, we invest heavily in our trace systems and have lots that are not freely available to the general public. I wish you all the best with your people finding and I’ll be posting some more blogs about this subject so I hope you come back and see what I’m writing about. If anyone has a suggestion for blog topics I’d be happy to hear them.
We hope this guide has helped you learn how to find people in the UK