If you just got engaged or started dating someone you met online, you probably want to confirm that your partner isn’t married or hiding a prior marriage. Or maybe you’re just looking to research your family history and want to find out who your long lost second cousin married. Many companies charge for this information, but you can sometimes access it for free or a small fee using the below methods:
RootsWeb – Free database of records created by the members of an online genealogy community, containing more than 600,000 marriage records. To search for a record, you must input the last name of one of the involved parties; first name, state and year of marriage are optional fields.
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If you’re about to hire a nanny or employee, get married, or enter into a business partnership with someone, you’re probably looking to run a background check on that person. Hopefully, you’ve already ruled out the possibility that they are an international criminal and fugitive by reviewing the U.S. “Wanted” lists.
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In the wake of Michael Jackson’s tragic death, a key debate is emerging over who will get custody of his three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II (also known as Blanket), 7. Two people are currently or potentially seeking custody: Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, and, Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and Prince Michael and Paris’s biological mother, Debbie Rowe. In deciding custody, the court looks at what is in the best interests of the child, so let’s look at the candidates through that lens:
Katherine Jackson
Pros: By all accounts, Katherine has a close relationship with her grandchildren and was named their guardian in Michael’s will. She also was awarded temporary guardianship of her grandchildren by a California judge, so the children are currently living with her.
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I got the following question the other day:
Question: Is it possible to have sim cards from cell phones uploaded to recover deleted text messages? If so, is this a service that you offer? What is the average cost of this?
Answer: We do have technology that can extract the data off sim cards. The data includes call logs and text messages, even deleted messages. The cost depends on the type of phone so please call us at 1-888-789-FACT to discuss.
Feel free to send me any other questions that you have by submitting a comment to this post. I’ll answer them all on this blog. Of course, if you want a private reply, let me know!
Are you going through a divorce and trying to negotiate a favorable settlement or win custody of your children? Do you suspect your spouse of infidelity and are wondering how to collect evidence? Send us all your questions by submitting a comment to this post and private investigator Patrick Troy will answer them in upcoming blog posts.
If you’re trying to locate a former classmate or colleague, lost relative or old flame, try your luck with these free, public online tools which require knowing the person’s name or phone number:
PIPL is a query engine that finds people’s profiles and deep web pages on websites and online databases that cannot be found with regular search engines, such as Facebook, Amazon and LinkedIn.
Yahoo! People Search is a tool that searches for people’s phone numbers, addresses and email addresses. It also includes a reverse phone number lookup where you input the phone number, and it identifies the owner.
SuperPages People Search is a tool that searches for people’s phone numbers and addresses. It also includes a reverse phone number lookup where you input the phone number, and it identifies the owner.
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I am often hired after someone has already tried and failed to catch a cheating spouse on their own. People often assume that being a private investigator is easy because how hard can it be to follow someone, right? Well, the reality is that it requires a lot more skill than it might seem, and that if you hire a private investigator, you’ll have greater success than going it alone. Here are five reasons why you should hire a private investigator:
1. The private investigator is anonymous to the subject.
One of the main reasons most people hire a PI is because they know they are likely to be recognized and caught if they try to do the work themselves. If you are trying to follow your cheating spouse, it is almost certain that he will recognize your car or spot you, and your cover will be blown. Not only will this result in embarrassment for you or suspicion by him, but it will jeopardize the entire case. If your spouse now believes you are suspicious of his behavior, he will be more cautious in the future, making it more difficult to catch him.
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If your spouse is spending a lot more time than usual on the computer and acting in a very secretive manner (for example, using the computer only after you’ve gone to bed), he may be committing online infidelity. Our private investigators can perform computer forensics and surveillance to find out exactly what your spouse is doing on the computer. We perform these services to retrieve past and current computer and online activity:
Computer Data Recovery – Almost all past computer activity is retrievable. Most computer users assume that when they delete a file, it is permanently destroyed. In reality, the deleted files remain stored on the computer’s hard drive until the hard drive is full. As the hard drive needs more space, it starts to destroy the deleted files. Until that point, our private investigators are able to retrieve deleted files, emails, instant messages, and history of Internet activity, including websites visited.
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