Mostly free websites for fact finding and online research for private investigators, genealogists, info pros, attorneys, journalists and the public.

• Seven more Facebook ‘secrets’ for journalists to have at their finger-tips

• Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting-A Guide to Online Search

• Google, Bing for Researchers

• BlueLight – 911 Dialing App

• When data gets creepy: the secrets we don’t realise we’re giving away

• Dawes Final Rolls | 1898-1906 Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole

• Custom Search Engines – Boolean Strings

• How to create a simple but robust Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) – Part 1

• LinkedIn Search Results Unblurring Tool – Boolean Strings

• Intelligence Community Resumes

• Camden Interactive Housing Map

• Abandoned Properties Information | City of South Bend

• The Toledo Survey | Abandoned Properties

• Abandoned Housing | Bremerton

• City of Chicago Vacant and Abandoned Buildings

• WebPreserver – Social Media eDiscovery Tool – YouTube

• UK Genealogy & Family History Resources

• Find Facebook Profile User ID – Find Facebook Group ID

• Rivered RSS Reader

• Hashatit.com | Hashtag Search

• WiTopia Personal VPN Services

• Anonymous VPN Service

• You’ve been served…on Facebook? .

• U. of Maryland-Led Team Releases Largest National Database of Food Safety Inspection Data

• Zilyo: The world’s top rental search site with over 2,500,000 listings

• Automated People Directory – AllThePeople

• Advanced Link: Operator to Explore Your Competitor’s Backlinks

• Google Doesn’t Always Look for All the Words

• Hola: Getting past barriers

• Top Boolean Search Strategies – Recruiting Tips and Tools Blog

• Investigate Non Profits – CitizenAudit

• Top 100 Genealogy Websites of 2015

• Places for Finding a Woman’s Maiden Name: A Checklist of 90 Sources

• Gaming LinkedIn data; the definitive 5 minute primer

• Robtex – Internet Tool

• Free Newspaper Archives

• Directory of Old Newspaper and Magazine Articles and Archives Online for Free

• International Newspapers & News Media

• Historical Newspapers Online

• Book: Sources and Methods for Investigative Internet Research

• Hushmail – Private Email

• CounterMail – encrypted pgp email webmail

• How to speak the language of Facebook | NetBootCamp.org

• Nitro | Edit PDF, Sign & Share Digital Documents

• Want to fly your drone and make a quick buck? The FAA has 33 rules for you.

• Mention | Real-time media monitoring application

• OnionCity. Tor dark web search

• New York Attorney Search & Disciplinary Records

• NYC Apartment Buildings – Permits, violations, photo

• WorldCat.org: The World’s Largest Library Catalog

• LinkedIn Custom Search Engine

• Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes

• Online Newspapers Directory

• Verification Handbook: Verifying Digital Content

• 59 Free Twitter Tools and Apps That Do Pretty Much Everything

• Find your Facebook ID -easy tool for locating a Facebook numeric personal ID

• Facebook and Employment Law

• Social Searcher – Free Social Media Search Engine

• Facebook Search Assistant

• USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer

• OSINT tools / Internet Investigation tools

• Free People Search Engines – Find A Person Online

• Find People | Reverse Phone | Reverse Email | VIN | IP Address

• Let Me Get That Data For You – Download website documents

• State Legislation – adoptees access to their original birth certificates

• Wonder How To » how-tos, hacks, pro-tips, and insider secrets.

• Hashtag Tracking for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram – Keyhole

• Facebook Search Tool

• DocumentCloud

• Virginia Businesses

• Social Media Tools Directory

• Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Disclosure Portal

• Political Campaign Disclosures – FollowTheMoney.org

• Relative Finder

• Facebook graph Search command 2015-part-2

• Facebook Graph Shortcuts

• Demographics and Lifestyle by ZIP Code

• California Digital Newspaper Collection

• Business Credit Report – Run a Free Company Search | Experian

• Five Minute Find: Alternate Sources for Death Records – YouTube

• Google X-raying LinkedIn – Sourcing & Recruitment Info

• Scraper – Get Data Out of Web Pages

• Contact Management Software & API – FullContact

• How Do I Legally Prove Native American Ancestry?

• Tribal Enrollment and Genetic Testing | Genetics

• The Pirate Bay – The galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site

• Google plus tips by some experts

• Due Diligence Research Links

• Yik Yak – live feed of college student comments

• Screencast-O-Matic – Instant screen capture video

• How to Record Evidence from a Mobile Device

• Social Media and the Changing Role of Investigators

• Using Federal Rules of Evidence to Authenticate Website Content

More of my favorite links are here.