Where to look for people in Australia and how to contact them

Do you have questions about how to locate someone in Australia? Should you require assistance in locating a person in Australia, Online Investigations Pty Ltd, your go-to Private Investigator in Melbourne, has compiled a straightforward and easy-to-understand list that can be of assistance to you.

There are a great number of reasonable explanations for why a person might be interested in locating another person in Australia. In our experience as private investigators, the most common reasons for hiring us are searching for a missing person, an old friend, a high school sweetheart, a family member, or even someone who owes you money. The question now is, what options do you have if you need to find someone?

1. Make a list

As is the case with the majority of things in life, preparation is the key to optimizing your chances of success. What specific details do you currently have about the other person? When looking for someone, it is important to take the time to sit down and write down everything you know about that person. This will help you narrow down your search. Take, for instance:

• Full name
• Date and time of birth
• Addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and login information for social networking accounts that are currently known
• Occupation
• Hobbies/Interests
• Name of the Spouse, Names of the Children, and Names of Any Other Family Members

The parameters of your search will begin to take shape based on this information, which will be provided to you. This not only provides you with additional leads to pursue for each piece of information that you have, but it also ensures that the information you have obtained is for the appropriate person. There is no point in making the effort to find a "John Smith" in "Australia," as doing so will produce millions of results that are identical. You should also ideally be familiar with his middle name, date of birth, and at the very least, a state to look for him in.

In addition, the act of compiling a list can lead to the discovery of a wealth of additional information, some of which you may have previously believed to be irrelevant to the process of locating the individual in question. If you know, for instance, that the person you're looking for is an avid rower, you might be able to find him at a rowing club or event in your area. Do not disregard any of the information that you have gathered about the person. As private investigators, we have been able to locate thousands of people based on the most obscure piece of information that our client initially believed wasn't worth passing on. If you decide to hire a professional service to find someone, a good investigator will take the time to question you about the person and find information that you might not have considered important in the past. If you decide to use a professional service to find someone, you should do so.

Now that you have your list, this information may also be helpful to an investigator, should you decide at a later point to engage the services of one. Because most private investigators charge by the hour, it is in your best interest to provide as much information as possible regarding the searches that you have already conducted. This will not only ensure that your investigator is well briefed before they begin their inquiries, but it will also prevent them from performing the same searches twice.

2. Identify mutual friends

Do you know anyone who might have information about the whereabouts of this person? The best competitive advantage you have over a professional service and/or database is mutual friends who are willing to assist you in finding what you need.

People are willing to provide information about other people in the vast majority of instances, provided that they are aware of the recipient of that information. This gives you a significant advantage over an investigation company, which might have to spend some time earning an individual's trust before that individual will release information to them, or in some cases might even have to resort to pretexting in order to achieve the result that they want.

3. Utilize the PIToolbox.com.au website.

At this point, the list you have compiled ought to be complete, containing as much information about the individual as you and your colleagues are able to possibly recall. On the basis of this information, you are now able to make use of free resources that are available online to further investigate the mystery of where the individual might be. It is highly recommended that you use PItoobox.com.au because it not only provides links to the most relevant resources in Australia but also because all of the resources are either completely free or have a very low cost associated with them. You can be sure that you are on the right path if you make use of these resources because they are the same ones that investigators and inquiry agents will start their searches at.

PItoolbox provides resources organized into categories such as states, professions, and social media. Spend some time going through the links that are most pertinent to your search, and make sure to record your findings on the list so you can refer to it in the future.

4. To gain access to historical records, use the website Ancestry.com.au.

Ancestry.com.au is an excellent database that you should look into using if you only have a small amount of information to work with or if the person you are trying to find is older than 55 years old. This searchable database includes electoral rolls up until the year 1980, allowing you to determine possible middle names, other family members, possible burials, family trees, marriage records, and/or immigration records. This is a database that we as investigators utilize on a consistent basis, and it has enabled us to achieve fantastic results without having to scour through microfiche at our local library.

We are happy to provide the opportunity for a free trial of their database, which can be accessed through the following link. Considering that the annual fee is over $400, this is a fantastic offer. ) Click on this link for your free trial of Ancestry.com:

5. To access Ancestry.com.au's DNA Database, go to their website.

Adding your name to a DNA database is something you should think about doing if you are looking for a member of your extended family that you have never met before, particularly with regard to your biological parents or siblings. Sometimes you might not know the full name of a family member (for example, a child born as the result of a one-night stand), or you might not know much about the history of your family (for example, if you were adopted). If you sign up for a DNA database, the company that maintains the database will alert you if there are any common genetic links between your DNA and the DNA of other people who have also joined the database. When it comes to communicating with members of one's extended family, this is an excellent method to use. When you sign up, you do so under a pseudonym, and if the system determines that your information is a match with that of other people on the database, you are given the opportunity to communicate with those people through the website's messaging system. Only if both parties have both given their consent and been given the opportunity to share family trees and further establish the ancestral links between the two of you will your personal information be passed back and forth between the two of you.

Use the link provided here, AncestryDNA®, to sign up for the DNA Database and learn more information about it.

6. Engage the services of a private investigator who is qualified and holds a license.

If, despite your extensive efforts, you are still unable to locate the person in question, it is time to seriously consider working with a professional agency that specializes in skip tracing and location services. Finding a private investigation firm that meets your needs can be challenging. In a previous post on this site, titled "How to Choose an Investigator in Australia," we discussed the factors to consider when making your selection. If you would like more information on how to find the right firm for you, check out that post.

It is essential to keep in mind that, despite the fact that you might have put in a lot of work but gotten nowhere, private investigators have a wealth of experience and information to draw from when it comes to tracking down people. An advantage of hiring a private investigator is that, despite the fact that they are not the police and do not have access to the same databases as the police, private investigators have subscriptions to a number of databases, whereas members of the general public do not. This gives private investigators an advantage over the general public. The vast majority of these databases require users to pay an annual fee; this fee is far too high and uneconomical for individuals from the general public to pay for a single query on any of these databases. Making use of these databases, as well as their expertise in conducting interviews, conducting covert inquiries, and having conversations with their network of contacts, will result in the highest possible rate of success in locating your missing loved one.

Private investigators based in Melbourne, Online Investigations Pty Ltd have a wealth of experience in tracing individuals, witnesses, debtors, and defendants. They work for both plaintiffs and defendants. Their expertise has been instrumental in locating individuals that other investigation companies have been unable to find in the past. Simply put, we are able to obtain results because all location inquiries are carried out using a variety of investigation methods, both offline and online.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us or call us at any time on 1300 884 596 if you have any questions regarding the variety of tracking techniques that we offer or if you would like a free consultation.

Private investigation firm Online Investigations Pty Ltd has its headquarters in Melbourne, in the Australian continent. Private investigators and detectives with years of experience, covering all of Australia, including the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia, as well as the rest of the world. The areas of Canberra, Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, and Perth, as well as international, are serviced.

The following are some of the other guides that we have available:

Finding someone in the United Kingdom and how to do it

Where to look for people in New Zealand and how to find them