Especially in these days of an emphasis on online communication, you can use any search engine and you can bring up pages of site listings who promise to find people by their Email address, their physical address, job, university, phone and cell phone.
There are some legitimate sites that provide some excellent and accurate information. Most likely, the most important thing to do when you are trying to find someone – by any means – is to do your research in advance. It is essential to do all you can to determine which sites are legitimate, provide accurate information, are really free (if they advertise they are) and they do not have hidden charges, nor do they give your personal information out.
Research shows that well over 50% of all people search sites are not even close to being legitimate. They will lure you in by offering you a small piece of information to make you think they can get the actual information you want. In reality, they might identify a little bit of information for you, then get you to pay to go further. Once that payment takes place the legitimate sites will actually come up with the information. The non-legitimate sites will produce bogus information, innacurate information, outdated information, no information or all of the above.
When trying to find someone by their Email address there are some things you can do yourself in advance of going to a people search site. Most Email providers such as Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail and others have directories to look up the person or company that is connected to a particular Email address.
Other things that you can do is to use a reverse directory or look online at some of the free sites. In addition, class reunion sites are good places to look, If you are unsuccessful dealing with those methods, then it is the time to look for the sites that specialize in finding people by Email – hopefully for free. Whatever you decide to do, be sure to do your research first.