Find Email Address
If you want to track down lost friends, or get in touch with someone whose business card you misplaced weeks ago, there are many ways you can find email addresses online. This could be a two minute job or a lengthy process depending on how much information you already have.
Check your Records
The simplest form of locating someone’s email is to check whether you have had any previous correspondence with the person you seek. Double check your own personal email records by typing their name or any key phrases from a conversation you remember having online, type this information into the search mail option often available on any good email providers like yahoo, Google, Hotmail, etc.
Specialist Sites
If you are starting from scratch but have simple details like their name, you can try using an online email specialist search finder. There are many of these sites now widely available, sits like Emailfinder or Peoplesmart. You type the persons first and last name into the server, along with any additional information you have for example location. The search engine hen scans over 400 million public records, phone book directories, white pages and other sources to try and find the email address you are looking for. You can also use the reverse email search option if you already have the email address but want to find out a person’s name, phone number, address or online photos.
The most popular sites offering this service are;
- www.Emailfinder.com
- www.peoplesmart.com
- www.my.email.address.is.com
Most of the email finder websites offer a premium fee for their services, although most of them do have simplified versions free of charge, you can also try free email search engines like; www.myfreemailsearch.com. However please remember when you are using these sites that most of them use public records as a key element in their search, email address however is not considered to be a public record especially when it belongs to an individual. There are six main email directories these are; Yahoo, Who – Where, IAF, InfoSpace, Bigfoot, and SwitchBoard.
If an old friend or contact has changed their email address and you only have the old one, there are also websites offering to seek this information, fresh address carries listings of over three million email addresses. You type the old email address into the search box and it searches to find the new one. Other popular sites offering this service are findmemail and mailocate.
Social Networking
Social networking sites are now widely used and popular, with websites like Facebook, Bebo, Tumblr, and Twitter practically everyone has an online account somewhere. They also offer search engines, to find out if someone you know is signed up and online you can search in their records through the search option using the person’s name, email address, location, etc. Along with social networking sites there are also the professional network sites like LinkedIn and Ecademy.
Google It
If you are searching for an email address of a company or professional chances are they will have an individual website with contact details on line. You can use widely recognized search engines like Google and Yahoo to search the World Wide Web. If it is an individual person you can also try using the search engines, you never know what you may find. Tyr typing a variety of phrases into the search engine to utilize your results, for example if you are searching for a John Doe from Boston, you can type variants of this knowledge; Bob Smith Boston, Smith Bob Boston, Boston Bob Smith.
Educated Guess
If the person you are looking for attends a certain college or university or works for a specific company, you can try using educated guesses to track them down. Most companies and institutions have a regulated email pattern for everyone. You can try and find out this pattern by searching on their website or calling reception. Common email addressing schemes are using first and last names, using full names, using initials as the user name and the company’s name as the domain name, for example bobsmith@paperchase.com.
Publish your own records
You may also need to take into consideration that if you are looking for someone then it could be likely that someone is looking for you, you can sign up to many of these email finder sites to publish your email details online so they are available in case the person is also seeking you.
If you are really desperate and out of luck you could consider hiring a private investigator to do the searching for you, however remember this is the most costly option and should only be used if all other avenues have been exhausted. Once you have tracked down that email address successfully be sure to save it this time to avoid going through the same process in the future. Use your contacts option or create a specialist folder in your email for important addresses you want to hang on to.