Last date edited 12/17/07

If you know someone’s e-mail address,
 you can search for his/her street address using:

Infospace - Infospace’s "White Pages Reverse Lookup" choice lets you find someone by his/her e-mail address. You must know the complete e-mail address. The search will give you an address and a complete telephone number. You do not have to register with Infospace to use its services: it earns money by selling advertising and services on its website.

Internet Address Finder - lets you look for people by their e-mail address.

If you want to find a person’s e-mail address, you can use:

Anywho - If you go to the "Reverse Lookup" choice in Anywho, you will be able to try and find someone’s e-mail address. You will have to know his/her last name, and can use his/her first name, city and state if you know those details.

Bigfoot - You must know the last name of the person you are looking for to use Bigfoot. You will have to "plug" the person’s last name into a fill-in-the-blank field on-line to begin a search. If you just search by last name, Bigfoot may find thousands of people. to If you also know his/her first name, and can guess at the state and/or city they are currently in, you will decrease the number of people Bigfoot finds. Bigfoot does not require you to register with it to use its services: it earns money by selling advertising on its site. If you find the person you were looking for, and want more detailed information about that person, you will be given a chance to "Find out more about XXXXX" which will send you to the for-pay USSEARCH company described above. Switchboard also lets you connect to Classmates, a service which helps you locate people by his/her high school and which is described below.

Infospace - The "White Pages" choice at Infospace lets you look for someone’s e-mail address. You must know the person’s last name, which you will enter into a fill-in-the-blank slot to begin the search. If you also know his/her first name, and can guess at the state and/or city they are currently in, you will be able to try using those details as well. If you just search by last name, Infospace may find thousands of people. You will decrease the number of people you find by using more information. Infospace does not require you to register with it to use its services: it earns money by selling advertising on their site You can also connect to USSEARCH described above, or Classmates described below through Infospace. 

Whowhere - When you get to Whowhere, it gives you an immediate choice of whether you are looking for someone’s e-mail address, telephone number or website. You search for any of these possibilities by typing in the first and last name of the person you are looking for, and making the choice you want. The report will include an address. It will also include a variety of links asking if you want further searches. These lead you to the "pay-for" USSEARCH searches (see company description above), most running between $10 and $40. The "Advanced E-mail Search" option in WhoWhere only gives you access to information about registered WhoWhere subscribers.

Yahoo has an "Advanced E-mail Search" option which lets you find a person’s e-mail address by his/her last name and/or first name, and/or city/town, and/or state/province, and/or country, and/or domain, and/or old e-mail address. It will let you try to search with as much or as little of this information as you have. You can also link to USSEARCH described above from Yahoo.

 Last date reviewed no legal content 8/01(MLAN/AC/DD/MZ)

Source: Maryland Legal Assistance Network (MLAN)

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