Whether you're looking for your best friend that you lost touch with, your school friends, old boyfriend or girlfriend, or family memebers, searching public records can help put you back in touch.
Navigating your way through the maze of online people search engines and services can be a nightmare. Some even sell information that's freely available on the internet if you just know where to look.
We've checked out the most popular people and public records search tools on the internet. Every finder reviewed charges a one-off payment, unlike the monthly subscriptions requested by some providers. Each of the sites reviewed offer a full money back guarantee.
Read our reviews of the top picks:-
Simple design and layout to site. Easy to find your way round. Comprehensive search facility (people,background, criminal, business, property, death, divorce & marriage). You can carry out a free search but the results are only shown when you sign up to join.
Score 8/10
Official looking design to website. Unlike Undercover Detective, you can actually see, but are unable to access, the results of your "free" people search. More than just a co-ordinated public records search which is offered by competitors. However, it offers a less comprehensive search than other similar tools whilst including the usual searches for background, criminal, people and legal information.
Score 7/10
Easy to navigate, professionally designed. No facility to carry out a search without signing up. Comprehensive search facility covering. Offers excellent value free bonuses and a discount for early sign up. Satisfaction rating by customers - high.
Score 9.5/10
Remember, if you do sign up because you want to find a particular person and are unable to do so on their database, you can claim a full refund if you are not satisfied for any reason.
You can find someone's e-mail address by looking at their website, using a search engine or looking them up in a directory. You can search for email address with companies like bigfoot.com or you could also check out 
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Finding peoples email addresses can be difficult because there is no central database of email contact information. You may or may not find what you're looking for with these tools - hence the wide availability of people search tools.
Often when people sign up for a service or other information they are required to register their email addresses.
Did you know that you can get access for free to public records? This includes public death records, also marriage, divorce and birth.
