WHO CAN FIND PEOPLE?
Ongoing current information and resources for genealogists, family
historians and researchers to FIND People, Places and Things.

CURRENT INFORMATION
COMMUNICATION: National Genealogical Standards For Sharing Information With Others
COMMUNICATION TOOLS - Communication Initiative Network: Person-to-Person - Global
TELECOMMUNICATION: Global Directory  Major worldwide telecommunication
operators, equipment manufacturers, funding bodies, research & development
organizations; also international - regional telecommunication organizations.

ASSOCIATIONS - CLUBS - INDIVIDUAL GROUPS: Organization
ASSOCIATIONS: ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership
* Associations on the Net
  Internet Public Library guide of prominent organizations and associations.
* Directory of Associations
  Comprehensive source of information on professional, business,  trade associations,
  501c non-profit organizations, chambers of commerce, charity and community institutions.
* Fraternal and Service Organizations
  - Fraternal Organizations: Societies and Sororities
  - Friendly Society
  - Masonic Resources Worldwide on the Net
* Idealist.org - The Nonprofit World
* Trade Union
  - List of Trade Unions
* Union of International Associations (UIA)
  - UIA Online Databases
    - International Organizations Online
      - Yearbook of International Organizations
        - Selected links to International Organizations
CLUBS: Club
* 4-H: 4-H World Atlas - 4-H USA - 4-H History
* Ford Genealogy Club
* GenCircles
  Surname Clubs, USA Clubs and World Country Clubs.
* Genealogy Research Club
  Forum for genealogy information exchange.
* International Genealogy Meetups: Map of Genealogy Meetups
  Events, clubs and groups worldwide, for genealogists, in your area.
* Newcomers Club Worldwide Directory
  Locate clubs and organizations designed to give people and parents new to an area,
  the opportunity to meet and develop friendships with others who now live in the area.
* Rotary International
  Global network of community volunteers.
INDIVIDUAL GROUPS:
* Scouting: Portal:Scouting
  - Boy Scouts of America®: History of Merit Badges - List of Eagle Scouts
    Supports quality youth programs: Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting and Venturing.
  - World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
    Become responsible world citizens through action and activity in the community.
  - World Organization of the Scout Movement
    More than 28 million Scouts, youth and adults, boys and girls, in 216 countries and territories.
  - World Wide Scouting Penpals
    Scouting, Guiding, Stamp and Badge Trading.
* Seniors: Old Age
  - AARP® - CoolGrandma.com - Elderly & Senior Care - Retirement Living Information Center
    Retirement Net - SeniorJournal.com - Senior Links - SeniorNet® - Wired Seniors

BABIES (Infant) - CHILDREN (Child) - FAMILIES - KIDS - TEENS:
* Adoption: Encyclopedia of Adoption
  - AAC - Adoption-Related Sites - Adoption 101.com - The Adoption History Project
    Adoption Records - International Adoption - International Soundex Reunion Registry
    National Council for Adoption - Pregnancy Center Network - Heartbeat International
    Reunite.com
* Celebrity Baby Blog
* Find a Parent or Child (UK)
  Help find dad, mum, son, daughter, father, mother, adopted or lost parent or child.
* The Global Missing Children's Network
  Numerous web sites that share a multilingual search database
  filled with missing children's photographs and information.
  - National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
    Resources for the United States.
    - CodeAmber.org
      The Web's Amber Alert System for the USA.
* Marriage and Family Ties: Fun Stuff and Games
  - Child and Family WebGuide - Parent Info on Child Development Research: Topics By Age
  - Global Alliance - National Association for the Education of Young Children
    - National Association for the Education of Young Children (USA)
      - Kids Count: Annie E. Casey Foundation: United States benchmarks of child well-being.
      - Kids.gov: U.S. government interagency Kids' Portal.
  - Global Kids
    Fairy tales, kids geography, ideas, discoveries, inventions and worldwide multicultural resources.
  - Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
    Blog for Global Kids' Online Leadership Program.
  - International Children's Digital Library
  - MediaWise®
    Provides information about the impact of media on children and gives people
    who care about children the resources they need to make informed choices.
  - Totally Wired
    What Teens and Tweens are really doing online.  Blog resource for parents,
    aunts, uncles, teachers, librarians youth workers or any adult trying to decode
    what teens are doing online and with technology.  Totally Wired arms adults with
    the language and knowledge to address the real issues of raising tweens and teens
    who have grown up with the Internet and cell phones.  By providing adults with a
    greater understanding of the what their kids are really doing on the internet and how
    they are using technology, Totally Wired will give adults the to ability to set realistic
    boundaries necessary to keep children safe.  . . . "To me, this is clearly a parenting
    issue -- and it starts early since kids can begin playing games either on CD-ROM or
    online as early as age 3 (probably even earlier than that!).
* Poverty versus Provident Living
  Need, typically including the necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter,
  and health care).  Besides the deprivation of essential goods and services, need
  can include the loss of normal social relationships by social exclusion, dependency
  by legal guardianship, or other inability to actively and freely participate in society.
  - Almshouse
  - The Asylum Project
    - Historic Asylums of America
  - Charitable Organization
  - Child Labor
  - Child Welfare Information Gateway (USA)
  - Industrial and Reformatory Schools: England, Scotland and Wales
  - International Save the Children Alliance
    - Save the Children: Helping Children in Poverty and Children in Need
  - MDG MONITOR
    Tracking the Millennium Development Goals.
    - Achieve Universal Primary Education
    - Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
  - Orphanage: Orphan
    - The Foundling Museum
       Britain's original home for abandoned children.
  - Poorhouse
    - The Poorhouse Story - USA
  - Social Welfare Provision
  - Workhouse: History of the Workhouse

COMMUNITIES and CHAT DIRECTORIES: Internet Forum
Internet Relay Chat: IRC for Beginners - IRChelp.org Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
GROUPS:
Ancestry Message Boards - Begat Chat - BoardReader™ - Message Board Search Engine
Collaboration E-Mail Lists - CousinConnect.com - Family Tree Forum
GENDIR: Message Boards & Chat Genealogy - GENDIR: Village - Genealogy Message Board
Genealogy Forum - GenealogyForum.org - GenForum - Gentracers FH Group
Looking 4 Kin Genealogy Links & Chat - MyRootsPlace.com - PeopleSite.com: Search Community
Surname Newsgroups: Blogs - Wilibrord's Genealogy Chat Sites
INTERNET:
* Genealogy Community
* Google™ Groups and Google™ Groups Directory
  Quickly access your favorite groups, start new discussions or begin new groups.
* Instant Messaging: meebo.com
  Free instant messaging from absolutely anywhere: home, campus, work, or traveling worldwide.
  Use any computer to access friends on AIM®, Yahoo!®, MSN®, Google™ Talk, ICQ® and Jabber®.
  Chat with everyone, with no downloads or installs required.
  - AIM®.com
  - Google™ Talk
    Call or send instant messages to friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.
  - ICQ: ICQ® everybody, everywhere™
    Community, people search and messaging service.
  - Jabber® Open Instant Messaging
  - RootsChat.com
    Easy to use messaging forum for everyone researching their family history
    or local history.  The focus is on Ireland and the British Isles.
  - Windows Live™ Messenger
  - Yahoo!® Messenger - Chat, Instant message, SMS, PC Calls
* Microsoft: MSN® Directory By Alphabet
  - Home and Families Categories
    - Genealogy Categories
  - MSN® Groups - More Useful Everyday
  - Windows Live Spaces: Windows Live Spaces
* Netscape® Forum Center
  Family - Genealogy Forum
* Pedigree & Lineage Networking: Family Trees
* Yahoo!®: Yahoo!® 360 - Yahoo!® 360
  - Yahoo!® Chat - Yahoo!® Groups - Yahoo!® Groups: Genealogy
  - Yahoo!® Groups : Genealogy Chat Friends - Yahoo!® Groups: History

FIND FACTS: PEOPLE and PLACES: Fact Monster™ - People
* 192.com - UK Directory Enquiry Service and Around People Finder - Worldwide
* Addresses.com™
  Worlds largest email directory and database.
* Affiliated Background Searches, Inc.
  Thousands of Databases and Billions of Records.
* Ancestry.com - Find a fact or find a clue
* AnyWho Directories by AT &T Labs -USA and International
* Bigfoot People Finder - U. S.
* Choice Point Inc.
  Identification and credential verification.
* docusearch.com-Free Searches
* EDGAR Online Pro | People Search
  Searches SEC Filings by a person's name or displays all people
  associated with a specific company name (USA).
* FamilyLink.com
  Connect with genealogists from hundreds of cities in the world.
* Find A Friend
* Find a Person & Email Search
* Find People At YBLost.com - The Directory of Directories
  Investigate: search records and people.
  - David's World
* Free People Search Online
  Tools, resources and information to perform a free and comprehensive search for people.
* Free Public Record Search Engine - Pretrieve
* GedLink - The Worldwide Genealogical Network
  Exchange with those who have already studied your surname.
* Global Information Services
  Find information, people and records fast.
  Search records, receive verified results the same day.
* Intelius
  United States public records source.
* InfoSpace® World Directories
* LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
  People Directory: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z more
  Online network of experienced professionals from around the world.
* List of People by Name and List of Places by Name
* MetaEmailSearchAgent
* Netscape White Pages
* PeopleArchive.org
  Directory and online exhibit space to present to the public an integrated series
  of databases and archives that allow meta searching for various genealogy
  and family history resources, including extensive listings of personal homepages,
  distributed genealogy data, and free posting of people search and "lost friends
  and family members" information requests.
* PeopleFind.com
  - PeopleFind: Free Lookups
* People Information Home
* People Search Links
  Guide to finding people online.
* Pipl - People Search (BETA)
  Comprehensive people search on the web.  Unlike a typical search-engine,
  Pipl is designed to retrieve information in real-time from the deep web, to
  interact with searchable databases and extract facts, contact details and other
  relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific
  publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources.
* PrivateEye
  People Search - Background Checks - Public Records - Find People.
* Searchenginez: Find Someone
  Select Resources for Serious Searchers.
* skipease.com
  The People Search Network.
* Top Search Engines and Directories:
  Genealogy and Family History Internet Portals and Browsers.
* Tracing Living People
* The Ultimates
* US Search.com
  People search and background checks.
* USA.gov -- United States -- Citizen Gateway
  Locate government offices and services in your local community, region or state.
  Find farmers markets, social security offices, post offices, police departments, substance
  abuse treatment centers, veterans facilities, or state and local agencies by topic.
  - Family, Home and Community for Citizens on USA.gov
* White Pages - Lycos People Search
  Search address, phone information, email addresses, work history and background checks.
* WorldPages.com™
* Worldwide Postal Information
  E-mail and Snail Mail Helps.
* Yahoo! People Search
* ZabaSearch.com - Search Engine
  Find Everything Available on the Web About Yourself or Someone Else.
* Ziggs™ Search for Professionals
* Zoominfo
   People Information Summarized.

GENEALOGICAL and SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: Portal:Society
Web-based "Federated Independent Genealogical and Family History Web Societies,"
joined together but independently operated, can provide automatic internal search
services and automatic online submissions of data to all major search engines, asap.
Fees generated from local society membership can fund individual sites, with a worldwide
umbrella organization providing centralized resources; paid by general advertising
revenues obtained from local or regional organizations: cities, counties, states or
nations; clubs, fraternal organizations, etc.; in a quid pro quo mutual arrangement.
Each independent genealogical organization and family history society should provide
local online free web space, for any individual or sub-group having database information
relevant to said organizations, of either a historical or genealogical nature; becoming
thereby, the primary review authority for certification of local and regional genealogical
and history record depositories/standards, with power to credential, under the auspices
of area licensing agencies and international standards bureaus.  Offer local services
via television or radio commercials for non profits; be a sponsored agency of a local
newspaper in return for publishing periodic commentary of local civic dignitaries; be
an established link to a local club or social organization; become registered as a legal
not-for-profit organization, eligible thereby for gift contributions from estates, fund drives
and the like.  Become a contact point for local educational institutions, providing
"history and genealogy" nation based patriotic programs for primary and secondary
school systems within a given region.
* Cyndi's List:
  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
* EvaluationWiki
  Compendium of up-to-date information and resources to everyone
  involved in or interested in the science and practice of evaluation.
* Family History Society
  A Family History Society is a society, often charitable or non-profit making,
  where genealogists and family historians can profit from shared knowledge.
* Federation of Family History Societies and Contacting Members
* Genealogical Society, Family Societies, and Historical Societies
* International Internet Genealogical Society
* Rhetoric: Rhetoric Society of America - American Rhetoric
* Robert's Rules of Order Official Web Site
  - Robert's Rules Online
    Parliamentary Procedure and Parliamentarians.
* Society Hill Directory of Genealogy and History Societies
  Online Directories: Australia, Canada and the United States.
* Society Hall and Federation of Genealogical Societies
* Society of Genealogists - UK
* Toastmasters International
* The United States Internet Genealogical Society

LIVING BIOGRAPHY and SPECIALTY SITES: Archontology - Biography - Portal:Biography
* Biographical Dictionary: Who's Who
  - Marquis Who'sWho®
* Forbes Lists - People and More
* History and Social Studies: Biography
* Lists of People
* Living FAMILY and FUN Portal
* NNDB: Tracking the entire world
* People Topics from Answers.com™
* Reunions: Family, Friends and Military
* Who's Alive and Who's Dead
  Keep track of which famous people have died and which are still alive.
* World Rulers - Kings Presidents Prime Ministers of the World
  - Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
  - Rulers
  - World Statesmen
  - Zárate's Political Collections (ZPC)

TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES WORLDWIDE: Telephone and Telephone Directory
Skype™: Skype™ Make free phone calls - all over the world, via the Internet.
* AnyWho
  Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages,
  Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions.
* Area Code Locations: Maps
   List of locations for each area code in the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
* Country Calling Codes: International
* Google™ PhoneBook
* International Telephone Directories
* Internet 800 Directory™
  Free, Toll free, 800 and 888 Listings of Businesses by Company,
  Number and Type of Industry.
* Numberway
  Free White Pages, People Search and International Phone Books.
* Phonebooks of the World.com
* Reverse Phone Directory
  Find People by Reverse Phone Book and Reverse Lookup
  their Telephone Number to Find their Name and Street Address.
  Find People by Reverse Directory.  Reverse Lookup a Street Address.
  Search by Name.  Find Area Codes and Zip Codes.  Find a Company
  Name and Search by Business Type.
* Search Directories & Member Lists Records - Ancestry.com
  Printed directories of various types have been joined in recent years
  by electronic databases of individuals with addresses and phone numbers.
* Switchboard® and InfoSpace® Internet Directories
  PhoneBooks,  WhitePages and YellowPages.
* Telephone Tribute
  Telephone history and related web pages, technical information, research resources,
  human interest stories, clubs, pictures, sound files, links, etc.
  - The American Experience: The Telephone
  - AT&T: American Telephone & Telegraph
  - Bell System: Bell System Memorial
  - Telephone EXchange Name Project
* Yellow Pages Superhighway: Yellow Pages