Finding people // Phone directories // Finding info // Various and sundry As both journalists and 'Net surfers, we at The Herald have found some neat research tools that anyone can find useful. Here are a few we'd like to share Our local business and attractions directory Looking for something on our site? » Search our site » Read our FAQ for genealogists and other researchers for tips on what we can and can't offer you. Finding people and places and things    » AskJeeves.com Phrase your query in the form of a question. Great tool. » WhoWhere, finds people and e-mail addresses » Mapquest and Mapblast build a locater map down to the block level or any U.S. address you give » ZIP Code lookup from the U.S. Postal Service » All-in-One search page -- an amazing wealth of search engines and eresources » All-in-One People/phone search » HotBotLyco's HotBot search engine » WorldPages, people and business directories » Merlink.org address lists for Mercer County: Personal e-mail // Organizations // Businesses »Social Security Admin.'s list of top first names, 1880-1997 (same, 1999 update) »Social Security Admin death records lookup (via a private geneaology-software company). Search for name, find date of death/birth »ancestry.com with another version of SS death index and other geneaology records databases Phone directories » Switchboard.com (Never call Information for a number again again) » people.yahoo.com/ (formerly Four11.com). Good people/biz search » anywho.com/telq.html reverse phone directory. Know the number? Find the name. Also has some people/biz-search capabilities. » list of various phone-number lookup pages » payphone-directory.org/ reverse payphone lookup (even includes some local college dorms -- good for reaction stories) » payphone lookup » InfoUSA.com lookup for businesses, people, phones » Penn State University phone book Finding information on the Internet » Altavista, a top-notch search engine of The Herald » Google, a thorough search engine known for results that are more relevant and useful than others » Groups.google.com, formerly DejaNews searches months of Usenet archives for keyword topics » dogpile.com Searches several search engines at once » Metacrawler Searches several search engines at once » Excite search engine » Yahoo Web search engine Various & sundry » readmail.com Lets you retrieve mail from your private ISP via a browser » Hotmail » c|net, a wonderful repository of computer information and software to download. » Cop-Net public law-enforcment links » U.S. Naval Observatory master clock, an online atomic clock. » U.S. Navel Observatory current time in several time zones » Online literature library -- classic books, readable on line » Story: How to tell an e-mail hoax » Urban legends Web site. Don't be suckered into believing that Bill Gates will buy you a trip to Disneyland if you send a cookie recipe to a dying boy in England whose hard drive was erased by a virus. » Virus hoax info from Symantec AntiVirus Research Center » Whois domain-name lookup (enter just "domainname.com" (or .org, .edu , .net; NO www) to learn who owns it. "Record created" is the date it was registered. (Example: A local advocacy group starts a Web site. Who REALLY owns it?). Technical and administrative contacts probably are just the company paid to host the Web site. » domainsurfer.com -- Look up domain names when you only know part of the name. Put a ^ (shift/6 carat) in front of a name if you want names that START with this word, such as "^sharon" in "sharon-herald.com" » ARIN whois search -- If you know the IP address someone used to send mail, post to a newsgroup, etc., this will tell you who the address is registered.

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