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What to use for websites to locate people

The National Archives states that its records generally do not help locate living individuals and are usually decades old.

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Match the clue to an official website

Choose a website by the fact and jurisdiction in your clue. USA.gov’s court directory can lead to the relevant court; it is a directory of courts, not a person-name database. The following search examples are limited to the named state or county and illustrate what to use once that location is known.

Civil court participation in Delaware: Delaware Courts’ CourtConnect entry supports person-name, business-name and case-type searches, judgment searches and case activity for the listed Delaware courts. For example, start with the person’s name plus the known civil-case context, then check the court, case number and dates. It is not an all-state or all-record people search.

Property or deed clue in Greenville County, South Carolina: the Register of Deeds FAQ directs an address-only researcher to Real Property to identify an owner; use that current/previous owner name or a known deed book/page to research recorded documents. This tests a property transaction, not whether the owner lives at that address.

Professional license in Delaware: DELPROS License Look-Up accepts an Individual search with profession and name or partial name, or a known license number. Open the result number and View More Info. Keep the license status and verification date; a name hit is not a complete identity profile. Online verification is free, and APP/L2K numbers are not fully issued licenses.

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Current-location search versus historical research

Choose a record-specific route

Choose the public record system that would create the fact you want to verify. Different records answer different parts of a people-search question.

Build a source timeline

Build a dated trail when several records appear to describe the same person. That helps prevent older information from being mistaken for current information.

Context

Compare record sources by the fact they document

A useful people-search workflow may move across court, property, vital, archival, or local-government records. Choose each source for a specific fact, preserve the date of that fact, and avoid treating a directory or historical collection as a current-location service.

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Use identifiers that reduce false matches

  • Verify the person. Compare the identity details before treating the result as conclusive: compare middle name, date range, record location, and the number attached to the file before relying on the hit for a final conclusion.
  • Keep dates attached. Read every address or event with its date attached. This prevents an old record from being presented as a current residence claim.

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Authoritative next stops

Official federal navigation source; United States

USA.gov - Local Governments

USA.gov helps locate state and local government offices; it is navigation evidence rather than substantive proof about a person.

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