How to Find an Address For Free

Email address books are a great tool for storing all of your email contacts, but what do you do when you want to email someone that is not in here or their address has changed? Certainly, if you know the person, you could call them and hope you can get a hold of them, but faster methods are available that are right at your fingertips. That's right! The internet contains a full range of free search services to help make your search a success.

While this may be obvious to some, one thing you might try before searching the internet is to look through your old email correspondences. This can often lead you to the address because this person may have emailed you, or someone else may have provided the email through a forwarding or Cc: list.

Here are a few popular free internet search methods that will help you successfully locate an email address:

• Popular search engines, such as Google. These search engines can find many locations such as web sites that have a variety of information on this person.
• Email search services--some are free and some charge a fee.
• Popular websites, such as Yahoo, provide a free people search service. In addition to keying the name or address, other information, such as a phone number, can also yield results. If this person has posted information anywhere on the web, this will more than likely find it.
• Many people have registered their information through some type of directory such as:
• Member directories
• Professional email directories
• University email directories
• Social Networks i.e... Facebook.com or MySpace.com
• Business directories
• Government directories
• School directories
• If you are trying to locate a person at a school, government, or business, you can try to guess their email address. In these entities, email addresses are automatically assigned to the employees by using a specific pattern, such as first and last name or first initial and last name followed by the entities domain name. If you can find an email address on the home page or contact page, this will usually provide you with the particular naming convention used by the organization.

As you can see, several options are available. Some of these require a little patience and ingenuity, but if you are persistent, the effort will be worth it. So, happy hunting!