The Search Advisor

Some of our more experienced investigators at OmniTrace (we mean our old guys!  ) were finding people and lost birth family members long before the Internet was around.  They used some great, free people finding resources that are now, unfortunately, very much overlooked and underused.   

The United States Post Office is one of the best resources for finding people for free.  In many instances, when beginning your people search, you will have an old address of the person you are trying to find.  This old address might be:

There are several good adoption search books that we recommend.  In fact, when OmniTrace / The Search Advisor hires a new adoption researcher or private investigator,  part of their training–regardless of their prior search / investigative experience–is to read these adoption search books.  

In no particular order, here are our favorite adoption search books:

the adoption searchbook - techniques for tracing people - by Mary Jo Rillera
Mary Jo Rillera has written numerous books on search and reunion.  This book will help adoptees, birth parents and birth siblings reunite with one another.  As well, it will help members of

The following are a few birth family reunion testimonials that OmniTrace - The Birth Family Search Experts, recently received from some happy clients…

Subject:  Family Reunion Between Birth Mother and Son

Chris,  (Chris Maione is the head researcher and manager of our OmniTrace research department.)

I wanted to tell you the good news. Hildegard is Mike’s birth mother! They were both so happy to find each other and reunite. She has been looking for

Searching adoption reunion registry websites and registering on them is the first and most simple thing birth parents, birth mothers and adoptee (s) can do to reunite with their birth family members. 

Here is a link to one of our older posts on adoption reunion registry searching which you all should read:

What Is A Reunion Registry?

Here is a link to a page on our website where you can find our favorite reunion registries:

Adoption Reunion Registry

Wow!  This was a very short post for a bunch of investigators and researchers who typically

Address Search USA

There are so many ways to search for someone’s address in the USA with free resources on the Internet. Some address search websites, such as Internet white pages, are obvious choices.  Other address search resources are not.  Today, we’ll address how to use tax assessor public records to find people anywhere in the USA. 

Tax Assessor Database
This is a great website database to find a tax assessor office anywhere in the USA.  Why would you want to do that?  Because a tax assessor has access to 

We receive so many emails via our contact us page asking for people search help.  Some of these emails are so poignant!  We wish we could post these requests in their entirety, but we need to protect the confidentiality of our visitors and the people we search for and find.  

Yesterday, we received a search request from Fatima, who lives in Iran. She has been searching for her mother in the USA.  Apparently, she was taken from the USA to Iran by her father without having a chance to say goodbye to her mother.  It was a sad email.

Good news!   We found her mother who

Our FREE USA People Search Website Is Growing! 

Here, you will find only the best, FREE people search tools and resources to find people.   

Why our people search website will be the best free resource available:

• Private investigators, people search experts, genealogists and computer nerds  are building the site.
• Here are our favorite FREE people search resources and we'll teach you how to use them.
• Our search team is giving free assistance if you have any difficulties with your people search.
• We are offering free searches to many of our visitors. 
• We are giving people search advice to help you find old friends, lost loves, birthparents, adoptees, lost family members, military buddies, missing heirs and more.

To get started with your people search you can always click on the "Find People" link on the upper right area of our website. Or, just click on some of these links:

• Find People Free
• Free Genealogy Search
• Free Public Records Search
• Free Prison Inmate Search
• People Search Websites and White Pages
• Military Buddy Search
• Free People Search Alabama
• Free People Search California
• Free People Search Florida
• Free People Search Texas

Please come back often as we continue to grow our people search website and add additional pages.  We'd appreciate if you let us know how we can make our website better.  You might even be rewarded with a FREE people search .

Find Birth Parents In California By Obtaining Non-Identifying Information 

We just received a comment to one of our posts from Lynn.  She asked us for help to find her birth parents.  Here's what she wrote: 

"Hi, I was born on 10/24/1964 in Torrance,CA Los Angeles County. The hospital was Torrance Memorial Hospital. The agency was Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions. The Decree was finalized on 9/24/1965 in the Superior court of Torrance, CA LA County. The Judge was Alen Miller. My State file # on BC: 64-310109 Local #7089 056263. I was told my mother was a highschool student and 14 years of age. My Birthname was Baby girl O'Rourketo complete."

Lynn, when searching for birth parents, in many instances, having a last name is not enough to