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23 Oct

Supplement Online Public Records With A Phone Call

Can one assume that an online government index is complete even within the inclusive dates? What can you get if you supplement that with a phone call to the agency? A database that aggregates criminal records indicated that my subject...
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Criminal, Databases, Public Records, Research Methods Criminal, database, research Leave a comment

23 Oct

Exposing Invisible Linkedin Profiles To Retrieve Resumes

Are you gathering names of people who work at a company? Searching for those through Linkedin may return an invisible profile if you’re not in the network of that individual. Your Linkedin network consists of your 1st, 2nd and 3rd...
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Research Methods, Social Networks due diligence, Linkedin, resume 1 Comment

1 Aug

Find A Hawaii Birth

We’re spoiled in California. We have a public birth index that lists records into the 1990’s. I also have a supplemental index that goes to 2009 and a microfiche index that has names of adoptees (and their birth name) and...
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Adoption, Hawaii, Vital Records Leave a comment

3 Feb

Online Court Indexes Are Unreliable

Search an online court index. It functions well (some do) and it returns an index record of cases filed for the subject’s name. But you don’t know if “no record found” is a false negative, do you? This is a...
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California, Public Records 3 Comments

2 Dec

Adoption Search and Reunion

Adoption Search and Reunion has been an aspect of my investigations business for many years. Now I’m formalizing it with a dedicated website that makes it easier for adoptees and birth families to find me. My adoption service locates and...
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Adoption, California, Personal Data 4 Comments

23 Nov

Find A Confidential Marriage

My inquiry started with six “no’s” and ended with a “yes” and a fist bump. What’s the law in California regarding verifying a confidential marriage? And who knows it? Private investigators? Genealogists? County clerks? The county clerks aren’t equally informed....
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California, Public Records, Recorder, Research Methods, Vital Records 4 Comments

17 Sep

Text Message Investigations

Have you ever tried to identify the subscriber name that matched a telephone number? Of course you have. Dumb question. But securing the name, the carrier or the type of service — landline, cellular, VoIP or text-only — is not...
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Telco 3 Comments

16 Aug

My Favorite Private Investigator Links

Mostly free websites for fact finding and online research for private investigators, genealogists, info pros, attorneys, journalists and the public. NY Databases | searchable and sortable databases Newspaper Map Minority Business Development Agency Real-Time Social Media News Events CSRTG Aircraft...
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Favorite Links 6 Comments

16 Aug

Private Company Assets in SEC Filings

Are you searching the Securities and Exchange Commission filings for names of officers in private companies that sell securities? Search by name for officers and directors in businesses incorporated in states but not publicly traded — including the often obscured...
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27 Jul

New York Parolee Search

Not all government sites are created equal. How do you interpret the discrepancy between the New York Department of Corrections Inmate Information lookup and the New York Department of Corrections Parolee Search? The result from a name search on the...
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