subject: Reconnecting With A Family Member: How To Get Started [print this page] There are various ways to do people search on lost family members. To get started, you need to find as much information as you can about your family members. This may be the most difficult part of the whole process. Why? Because it is emotionally draining to ask different people you know and dig through your family past. I know the feeling, it's a huge discomfort. Get started with doing one small step at a time. Try first asking the people you know in a subtle manner and then be more direct.
What should you do next? There is one important point I want to make here: Searching for people on the internet is mostly about a) skill b) luck. Now we all know that we can't control luck, we can only focus on improving our skills. And in this case, skill comes from experience (in using various free people search engines) and collecting a lot of information which you can AGAIN use and find even more relevant and updated data.
You'll notice there are some 'premium' services as well as you explore various free people search engines. Those do not hide some secret information that nobody has (as some of the them claim) but simply save you the time by finding information that's not readily available for you. Background check services are famous for doing this job, they aggregate data from a lot of offline public record resources and try to display them online so you don't have to go to the county court/courthouse yourself and deal with all the hassles.
Okay, so what's one crucial thing you should remember from all this?
The web, as a medium, has a HUGE amount of data. It might take some time to find all relevant data for the family member/s you're looking for so DON'T GIVE UP! If you spend 3 hours and don't find any good information, spend 3 more hours and maybe you'll find something more useful. Increase the probability of success!
