If you want to find somebody through the Internet, this article gives you several places to start. Plan to spend serious time at this. The broadest ranging search you can do for free will be a telephone and address search. You may need to try several sites, because they don't all use the same databases. If your target has an unlisted phone number and does not use the Internet, then you may have to pay somebody to access an electronic database which isn't on the Net. Fees start around $20 dollars; a lot of services are available for under $100 dollars. Unless your target is rolling in hard cash or flat broke and hiding very deep, they are going to be found. If not by you, then by a search specialist.

There are all kinds of reasons for wanting to find somebody. Some of the reasons aren't mentally healthy for you or for the object of your search. Try to be clear about your own objectives before you go hunting. As an old saying goes, be careful what you ask for -- you might get it. Sometimes the worst thing you can get is the thing you believe you want.

If you think somebody you don't like may be searching for you, then talk with a police investigator, a private investigator, or a lawyer. Laws in most states can enable you to deflect the unwanted interest of a pursuer. This is the sort of thing court Restraining Orders are made for. Enforcement isn't perfect -- but even imperfect protection is better than none.