Naked in Cyberspace

, by Lane, Carole A.; Burwell, Helen P.; Davies, Owen

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ISBN: 9780910965170 | 091096517X
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Copyright: 10/1/1995

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Now that most personal records are easily searchable online, we're all naked in cyberspace. Readers can use this book to perform asset searches, find genealogical information, screen potential partners, identify prospective customers and investors, recruit employees, search adoption registries, conduct prospect/fundraising research and locate people.

About Links to Sites and Staying Current

xxi

Foreword

xxiii

Acknowledgments

xxvii

I. INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL RECORDS IN CYBERSPACE

Welcome to Cyberspace (Check Your Clothes at the Door)

(6)

How This Book Is Organized

(1)

What Type of Research Interests You?

(1)

Types of Personal Records

(1)

Where Can I Find More Information?

(1)

Database Searching

(12)

Equipment and Software

(1)

Types of Database Vendors

(1)

Boutique Services

(1)

Multi-Producer Database Vendors

(1)

Gateway Services

(1)

Types of Data

(1)

Search Languages

(2)

Delayed Retrieval

(1)

Database Pricing and Fees

(1)

CD-ROM Database Pricing

(1)

Online Database Pricing

(1)

Errors and Omissions

(1)

Information Professionals or Brokers

(3)

The Internet, Bulletin Board Systems, and Personal Information

(8)

What the Internet Is Not

(1)

What Kinds of Personal Information Can You Find on the Internet and Commercial Bulletin Board Systems?

(6)

A Few Sample Searches

(12)

Locating a Person

(1)

Searching for Assets

(4)

A Background Profile

(7)

A Word About Privacy

(8)

Privacy Laws

(2)

Technology and Personal Information

(2)

A Last Word about Privacy

(4)

II. HOW PERSONAL RECORDS ARE USED

Locating People

(14)

Getting Started

(2)

The Problems with Names

(3)

Databases Used

(1)

What Do You Know About the Person?

(1)

Is the Name Unique?

(1)

How Long Has It Been Since You Knew Where This Person Was?

(1)

Is the Person Hiding?

(1)

Is the Person Famous? An Expert?

(1)

Are There Friends or Relatives Who Might Be Located as an Alternative?

(1)

How Old Is the Person?

(2)

What Is Your Relationship to the Person? Why Are You Looking for Him or Her?

(1)

Summary

(3)

Pre-Employment Screening

(12)

What Is Pre-Employment Screening?

(1)

Professional Licenses

(2)

Motor Vehicle Records

(1)

FAA Airmen

(1)

Consumer Credit Records

(2)

An Alternative Social Security Number Screening Device

(1)

Earnings History

(1)

Education Verification

(1)

Employment History

(1)

Worker's Compensation History

(1)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Records

(1)

Medical Records

(1)

Public Records

(1)

Combined Pre-Employment Searches

(1)

Other Pre-Employment Databases

(1)

Summary

(3)

Recruitment and Job Searching

(10)

Job Seekers

(1)

General Resume Databases

(1)

Jobs Sought Within a Geographic Area

(1)

Jobs Sought Within an Industry

(1)

Minorities Seeking Employment

(1)

Military

(1)

College Students Seeking Employment

(1)

Hot Prospects

(1)

Job Openings

(1)

Classified Ads

(1)

Openings Within an Industry

(2)

Openings Within Specific Companies or Agencies

(1)

Openings Within a Geographic Area

(1)

Openings for College Students

(1)

Newsletters

(1)

Summary

(2)

Tenant Screening

(4)

Credit Records

(1)

Public Records

(1)

Tenant Databases

(1)

Summary

(3)

Asset Searches

(8)

Anyone Who Is About to Sue Someone

(1)

Anyone Being Sued

(1)

Anyone Going Into Business With Someone

(1)

Anyone Extending a Substantial Amount of Credit to Someone

(1)

What Types of Records are Available?

(5)

What's Missing?

(1)

Summary

(1)

Competitive Intelligence

(6)

Who's Who?

(1)

Corporate Musical Chairs

(1)

Current Awareness

(1)

Where Have They Been? What Have They Done?

(1)

What Are They Thinking?

(1)

Stock Ownership

100

(1)

Business Predictions Hidden in Public Records

100

(1)

Summary

101

(2)

Identifying an Expert

103

(12)

Preparing a Legal Case

103

(1)

Planning a Meeting

103

(1)

Recruiting New Employees

104

(1)

Pursuing the Unknown

104

(1)

Producing a Talk Show

104

(1)

Writing an Article, Book, Play, or TV Show

105

(1)

How Can You Identify an Expert?

105

(8)

Summary

113

(2)

Prospect Research (Fundraising)

115

(4)

News

115

(1)

Campaign Contributions

115

(1)

Public Records

116

(1)

Telephone Directory Databases

116

(1)

Motor Vehicle Records

116

(1)

Mailing Lists

116

(1)

Foundations and Grants Databases

117

(1)

Summary

117

(2)

Private Investigation

119

(6)

Public Records

119

(1)

Motor Vehicle Records

119

(1)

Telephone Directories

119

(1)

Not All Private Investigators Use Databases

120

(1)

Bulletin Boards

120

(1)

Further Information

121

(4)

III TYPES OF PERSONAL RECORDS

Biographies

125

(8)

Biographical Book Directories

125

(1)

Biographical Books

126

(1)

Encyclopedias

127

(1)

Biographical Index Directories

127

(2)

Biographical Directories

129

(1)

Biographical Newspaper Articles

130

(1)

Other Biographical News

131

(1)

Bulletin Board Services

131

(2)

General Indices

133

(10)

Dialindex

133

(2)

FamilyFinder Index

135

(2)

Public Records Indices

137

(1)

Information America's Wizard

137

(1)

CDB Infotek's Info:PROBE Searches

137

(2)

CDB Infotek's CompuTrace

139

(4)

Telephone Directories

143

(6)

Geographic Differences

143

(1)

Residential Versus Business

143

(1)

Subject Area

143

(1)

Currentness

143

(1)

Accuracy

144

(1)

Added Content

144

(1)

Search Capabilities

145

(1)

Use Restrictions

145

(1)

Price

146

(1)

Telephone Directories on the Internet

146

(1)

For Further Information

147

(2)

Staff, Professional, and Other Directories

149

(4)

Staff Directories

149

(1)

Professional Directories

150

(2)

Ancillary Directories

152

(1)

Mailing Lists

153

(14)

Telephone Directories

153

(1)

Other Directories

154

(1)

Magazine Subscriptions

155

(1)

Associations and Membership Groups

155

(1)

Call-Ins/Write-Ins/Buyers

156

(2)

Warranty Registration Cards

158

(1)

Friends and Family

159

(1)

Telephone Inquiries

159

(1)

Attendees

159

(1)

Donors

159

(1)

Government Agencies

160

(1)

Public Records

161

(1)

Online Mailing Lists

161

(1)

Mailing List Swapping

162

(1)

Finding an Existing Mailing List

162

(2)

Mailing List Expenses

164

(1)

Stopping the Junk Mail and Telemarketing Calls

164

(3)

News

167

(14)

News Directories

167

(1)

Newspapers

168

(1)

Newswires

169

(2)

Magazines

171

(1)

Journals

172

(2)

Zines

174

(1)

Newsletters

175

(1)

Television and Radio Transcripts

176

(1)

Combined News Databases

177

(1)

News Clipping Services, Current Awareness, and SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information)

178

(1)

Bulletin Boards

179

(2)

Photographic Images

181

(6)

Photo Stock Agencies

181

(1)

News Services

182

(1)

Business Periodicals and Magazines

183

(1)

Missing Children and Loved Ones

183

(1)

Criminals

184

(1)

Alleged Abductors

184

(1)

Registered Sex Offenders

184

(1)

The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

185

(1)

Photos Included in Other Databases

185

(2)

Quotations

187

(4)

Speech Databases

187

(1)

Quotations Databases

187

(1)

Professional and Technical Papers Presented

188

(1)

Published Articles

188

(1)

Published Books

188

(1)

Political Speeches

189

(1)

College Dissertations

189

(1)

Quotations Bulletin Boards

189

(2)

Bank Records

191

(4)

Personal Bank Accounts

191

(1)

Business Bank Accounts

192

(3)

Business Credit and Company Financial Records

195

(2)

Public Records

195

(1)

Sources of Business Financial Information

196

(1)

Consumer Credit Records

197

(14)

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

197

(1)

604---Permissible Purpose of Reports

197

(1)

Credit Databases

198

(1)

Searching the Credit Files

199

(1)

Credit Agency Reports

199

(1)

Consumer Credit History (a.k.a. Profile or Acrofile or Focus Form 2000) Reports

200

(2)

Employment (a.k.a. Employment Insight, Persona, or PEER) Reports

202

(1)

Collection Reports

203

(1)

Consumer Reports

203

(1)

Address Update (a.k.a. Finders, Return Mail, Credit Header, Atlas, or FACT) Reports

203

(1)

Address Verification (a.k.a. Report Card) Reports

204

(1)

Social Security Number Search (a.k.a. DTEC or TRACE) Reports

204

(1)

Fraud Alert/Prevention/Detection (a.k.a. FACS+, Safescan, Fraud Detect, HAWK, HAWKeye) Reports

205

(1)

Examples of Additional Credit Services

205

(1)

Credit Bureaus

206

(1)

Consumer Rights

206

(1)

Requesting a Copy of Your Credit Report

207

(1)

Foreign Consumer Credit Records

208

(1)

Limitations on the Records Displayed on Credit Reports

208

(1)

Summary

209

(2)

Criminal Justice Records

211

(14)

Criminal Justice Databases

211

(1)

Advance Passenger Information System (APIS)

212

(1)

Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)

212

(1)

Booking Logs

212

(1)

Central Repository

212

(1)

Consolidated Asset Tracking System (CATS)

213

(1)

Cousolidated DNA Identification System (CODIS)

213

(1)

Counterdrug Information Indices System (DRUGX)

214

(1)

Crime Information Network (CINet)

214

(1)

Criminal Records

214

(1)

EPIC (El Paso Intelligence Center) Database

214

(1)

Inmate Logs

214

(1)

INS Automated Fingerprint Identification System

215

(1)

INS Passenger Accelerated Service System (INSPASS)

215

(1)

Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)

215

(1)

Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS)

215

(1)

The INTERPOL-U.S. National Central Bureau System

215

(1)

Interstate Identification Index (III)

215

(1)

Motor Vehicle Records

216

(1)

National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

216

(1)

National Drug Pointer Index System (NDPIX)

217

(1)

National Fingerprint File (NFF)

217

(1)

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

217

(1)

National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)

218

(1)

Regional Information Sharing System (RISS)

218

(1)

Violent Gang and Terrorist Organizations File (VGTOF)

218

(1)

Other Uses for Criminal Records

218

(1)

International Criminal Justice Organizations and Databases

218

(1)

Europol

218

(1)

Interpol and Trevi

218

(1)

Criminal Justice Bulletin Boards and Networks

219

(1)

Additional Criminal Justice Databases and Systems

219

(1)

For Further Information

220

(1)

Publications

220

(2)

Other Criminal Justice Resources

222

(3)

Department of Motor Vechicles

225

(6)

Identifying Information on Individuals

225

(1)

Driver's License Data

225

(1)

Driving Records

226

(1)

Vehicle Registrations

227

(1)

Vessel Registrations

227

(1)

Vehicle/Vessel Histories

228

(1)

Problem Driver Pointer System (PDPS)

228

(1)

How to Access DMV Records Online

228

(1)

Regulations on Accessing DMV Records

229

(2)

Death Records

231

(8)

Social Security Records

231

(1)

CDB Infotek's CompuTrace

231

(1)

Social Security Death Records Index (CD110)

232

(1)

Public Records Vendors

233

(1)

Fatality Reports

234

(1)

Cemetery Records

235

(1)

Salt Lake City Cemetery Records (CD168)

235

(1)

USA Wars: Vietnam

235

(1)

Mortality Records Indices

235

(1)

Mortality Records Index: United States---Family Archive (CD164)

236

(1)

Texas 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 Mortality Schedule (CD49)

236

(1)

Demografiska Databasen

236

(1)

Deaths in the News

237

(1)

Public Record of Death

237

(1)

Deaths in Other Databases

238

(1)

Tax Records

239

(2)

Franchise Tax Records

239

(1)

Board of Equalization Records (or State Sales Tax Board)

239

(1)

Property Tax Records

239

(1)

Income Tax Records Within Public Records

240

(1)

Medical and Insurance Records

241

(5)

Medical Registries

242

(2)

Access to Medical Records

244

(1)

Medical Insurance Databases

245

(1)

Public Records

246

(5)

Civil Records

246

(1)

Motor Vehicle Records

247

(1)

Worker's Compensation Records

247

(1)

News

247

(1)

Mailing Lists

247

(1)

OSHA Records

248

(1)

Concern for the Future

249

(2)

Public Records

251

(30)

Limitations of Online Public Records

251

(2)

Types of Public Records Available Online

253

(1)

Arrests

253

(1)

Articles of Incorporation

253

(1)

Bankruptcy Records

253

(1)

Business Public Filings

254

(1)

Campaign Contributions

254

(1)

Case Transcripts

254

(1)

Case Summaries

255

(1)

Certificates of Listings or Secretary of State Filings

255

(1)

Certificates of Merger

255

(1)

Certificates of Name Reservation

255

(1)

Certificates of Non-Filing

255

(1)

Certificates of Status

255

(1)

Civil Court Indices

256

(1)

Consumer Public Filings

257

(1)

Corporate and Limited Partnership Records

257

(1)

Corporate Document Listings or Corporate Records

257

(2)

Corporate Tax Records

259

(1)

Court Dockets

259

(1)

Criminal Records

259

(1)

Death Records

260

(1)

Divorce Records

260

(1)

Federal Tax Liens

260

(1)

Fictitious Name Statements

260

(1)

Franchise Tax Board Status Letters

261

(1)

Grantor/Grantee Indices

261

(1)

Hospital Liens

261

(1)

Judgments

261

(1)

Lawsuits

261

(1)

Liens

262

(1)

Limited Partnership Records

262

(1)

Lis Pendens

262

(1)

Marriage License Indices

262

(1)

Mechanic's Liens

263

(1)

Notice of Default/Notice of Sale

263

(1)

Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) Records

264

(1)

Probate Records

264

(1)

Real Property Ownership

264

(2)

Sales and Use Tax Permits

266

(1)

SEC Reports

267

(1)

Sidewalk Liens

268

(1)

Statements and Designations by Foreign Corporations and Amendments

268

(1)

Statements of Domestic Stock Corporations

268

(1)

Tax Liens

268

(2)

Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Indices

270

(1)

Court Records Systems

270

(1)

Appellate Court Electronic Services (ACES)

271

(1)

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)

271

(1)

Other Types of Records Available from Public Records Vendors

271

(1)

Business Credit Records

271

(1)

Consumer Credit Records

271

(1)

Death Records (from the Social Security Benefits Records)

271

(1)

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Records

271

(1)

Fish and Game Licenses

272

(1)

General Indices

272

(1)

Military Locators

272

(1)

Motor Vehicle Records

272

(1)

National Address Search

272

(1)

National (Postal) Change of Address (NCOA)

272

(1)

Professional Licenses

272

(1)

Publishers' Change of Address

273

(1)

Telephone Directory Searches

273

(1)

Utility Company Records

274

(1)

Voter Registration Records

274

(1)

Watercraft Ownership Records

274

(1)

Worker's Compensation Records

275

(1)

Grouped Searches

275

(1)

Other Services Available from Public Records Vendors

275

(1)

Document Retrieval

275

(1)

On-Site Court Searches

276

(1)

Screening and Verification Services

276

(1)

Summary

276

(5)

Adoption Records

281

(6)

Adoption/Reunion Registries

281

(3)

Birthparent Connection Registry

284

(1)

Bulletin Boards

284

(1)

Adoption/Reunion Publications

285

(1)

Adoption Legislation

285

(1)

Children Available for Adoption

285

(2)

Celebrity Records

287

(18)

Biographies and Credits

287

(4)

Upcoming Projects

291

(1)

Contact Information and Business Relationships

292

(3)

News

295

(1)

Other Databases

296

(2)

Bulletin Boards

298

(4)

Celebrity Deaths

302

(3)

Genealogical Records

305

(38)

Software

305

(2)

Standard Genealogical Record Formats

307

(1)

Genealogical Networks and Bulletin Boards

308

(1)

Commercial Databases

309

(1)

Where to Get Started

310

(1)

Name Indices

310

(4)

Soundex Codes

314

(2)

Genealogical Registries and Family Pedigrees

316

(3)

Immigration Records

319

(1)

Census Records

320

(6)

Birth Record Indices

326

(1)

Marriage Record Indices

327

(3)

Real Property Records

330

(1)

Military Records

331

(4)

Combined Records

335

(1)

Ethnic Records

335

(5)

Additional Ethnic Genealogical Resources

340

(1)

Death Records

340

(1)

Genealogical Collections

341

(1)

Summary

341

(2)

Political Records

343

(10)

Political News

343

(1)

Political Directories

344

(1)

Biographies

345

(1)

Voting Records/Politics

346

(1)

Money

347

(4)

Events

351

(1)

Government Documents

351

(2)

We the People

353

(8)

Census Records

353

(3)

Other Demographic and Statistical Databases

356

(1)

Census Projections

357

(1)

Foreign Census Records, Demographics, and Statistics

357

(1)

Demographic and Statistical Publications

358

(3)

IV. WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION?

BOOKS

361

(20)

Adoptee/Birthparent Search Guides

361

(1)

Background Research/Investigative Reporting Books

362

(2)

Genealogical Research Guides

364

(6)

Locating People

370

(1)

Mailing List Directories

370

(1)

Privacy and Freedom of Information Books; Proceedings, and Government Documents

370

(9)

Public Records Research Guides

379

(2)

PERIODICALS

381

(22)

Adoptee/Birthparent Search Publications

381

(1)

Competitive and Business Intelligence Publications

381

(1)

Fundraising/Prospect Research Publications

382

(1)

Genealogical Research Publications

383

(12)

Investigative Journalism & Investigative Publications

395

(1)

Mailing Lists/Direct Marketing Publications

396

(1)

Online Research and Database Publications

396

(2)

Pre-Employment Screening and Recruitment Publications

398

(1)

Privacy and Computer Security Publications

399

(2)

Private Investigation Publications

401

(1)

Property Management Publications

401

(2)

ORGANIZATIONS

403

(93)

Adoptee/Birthparent Search Organizations

403

(2)

Asset Search Organizations

405

(1)

Fundraising/Prospect Research Organizations

405

(1)

Genealogical Research Organizations

405

(5)

Legal Research Associations

410

(1)

Mailing List/Direct Marketing Associations

411

(2)

Organizations Involved in Privacy Rights, Computer Privacy, or Freedom of Information

413

(1)

Private Investigators Associations

413

(2)

Process Server Associations

415

(1)

Professional Research Associations That Are Knowledgeable About Online Searching

415

(1)

Property Management Organizations

416

(1)

Public Records Research Organizations

416

(1)

Skip-Tracers and Collection Agency Associations

417

(1)

Tenant Screening Associations

417

(1)

Writers and Reporters Organizations

417

(4)

Appendices

Appendix A: Databases That Include Biographies

421

(6)

Appendix B: Book Directory Databases

427

(4)

Appendix C: Business Credit and Company Financial Databases Including Personal Information

431

(10)

Appendix D: Professional and Staff Directory Databases

441

(4)

Appendix E: Other Directory Databases Containing Employee Information

445

(8)

Appendix F: General Encyclopedia Databases

453

(2)

Appendix G: Magazine, Newsletter, Newspaper, and Periodical Directory Databases

455

(4)

Appendix H: Databases That Include Photographs

459

(2)

Appendix I: Quotation, Speech, and Transcript Databases

461

(4)

Appendix J: Telephone Directories

465

(4)

Appendix K: Adoption Registries

469

(4)

Appendix L: Major Bulletin Board Vendors

473

(2)

Appendix M: Public Records Producers and Vendors

475

(6)

Appendix N: Other Database Vendors

481

(12)

Appendix O: Companies and Associations That Can Help To Remove Your Name From Mailing Lists

493

(3)

Index

496

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