People

This page:
Biography | Finding People | Names | Genealogy

People, generally

• PeopleSpot - Finding people, biographical info

Biography

• Dictionary of World Biography - Read online for free (Australian National University Press)
• The Biographical Dictionary
• Biographies PolySearch Engine - Péter Jacsó's page for searching multiple biography sites
• Biography (Internet Public Library)
• Biography.com - An online dictionary of biography
• NNDB - Database of people, living and dead, emphasizing connections from one person to another
• Who2 - Famous people past and present
• WorldCat Identities - Information about names in the WorldCat database (people who are authors and/or subjects)

Dead People:

• Arlington National Cemetery - Graves of those who honorably served the U.S.
• Dead People Server - Is that famous person still alive? (no longer updated after early 2017, even if more recent years appear in the index)
• Find a Grave - Famous and not-so-famous people
• Legacy.com - Obituaries and death notices from many newspapers
• Who's Alive and Who's Dead

Finding People

• Melissa: Free Lookups - Address and street data, ZIP codes, business and professional directories, federal government information, statistics, maps and aerial views (formerly MelissaData)
• People Finder Guide on the Virtual Chase - Loads of resources, by law librarian Genie Tyburski
• 411.com - People search, yellow pages, reverse lookup, reverse address, etc.
• Findermind - Advice on best background services and other tips to find people
• Pipl - Search deep Web sources, including databases not searchable through the general Web search engines
• SkipEase - Multiple people finders on one page
• Yahoo People Search - Phone numbers, reverse phone numbers, e-mail addresses

Names

• Baby Name Wizard
• Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Guessing Names Based on What They Start With - Enter gender, birth decade, and first letter and get most popular names with those criteria
• The Name Machine - Track the popularity of names in the U.S. over time
• Name Trends
• Nameberry - Baby names
• Popular Baby Names - Get a list of the most popular names or search for a name, for years going back to 1879 (U.S. Social Security Administration)

Genealogy

• Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet - Huge list
• Ancestry.com - A great source for all kinds of records, but it's a subscription site
• RootsWeb - Social site for genealogists: discussions, advice on getting started
• Death Indexes
• Ellis Island - Passenger records for the immigration station of the Port of New York where more than 20 million people disembarked between 1892 and 1924
• FamilySearch - Ancestor search and other kinds of searches (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
• Genealogy.com
• Library of Congress:
• Local History & Genealogy Reading Room
• Other Local History and Genealogy Resources
• National Archives Resources for Genealogists
• Social Security Death Index
• United Kingdom Genealogy
• Where to Write for Vital Records - Birth, marriage, and death records

Ethnic Genealogy:

• AfriGeneas - Genealogy of Africans and African-Americans
• JewishGen