You Can Succeed
That Person At The Bar
Examine Your Checklist
Basic DIY Tools
Paper Trails and Social Security Numbers
Getting Started
Section VI
Locate Someone
One Last Counter Measure
Your Next Move
Techniques Involving Vehicles
Stay Alert!
Your First Suspicion
The Rules Are The Same
Paying Attention To Your Surroundings
Your Telephone
Custom Search
Section IV
Basic Counter Measures
Locating FM Transmitters & Contracting the Experts
Section V
What Are Your Options

Covert Video & Camcorder Surveillance
Section III
Do You Need Counter Surveillance?
Vehicle & GPS Trackers
Antennas, Telephone Recorders & Radio Signal Scanners
Electronic Surveillance
Stationary & Mobile Surveillance
Section II
Types of Surveillance
Section I
Counter Surveillance
Real Private Investigators helping you take care of your real problems yourself!
Home page
The Do It Yourself Detective
Contact Information

  The Salvation Army actually has a pretty good data bank based on people they have come in contact with. They can be contacted at:
Salvation Army Social Services Department
Missing Persons Bureau
440 West Nyack Road
West Nyack, NY 10994-1739
   The Mormon Church has a library with genealogical records that just might have information about your missing person. Contact on the World Wide Web at www.lds.org.
   Another source of information that might be helpful is the National Archives located in Washington, DC. You might find information on your person or their family. Contact them at:
National Archives Headquarters
7th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20408
For more information on individuals who may have been in the military you can write:
National Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63132-5100
   Military records require a freedom of information request. You can find the form at: www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel
If you want to find out if your person ever was a Federal prisoner you might contact the Bureau of Prisons at:
Inmate Monitoring Service: 202-307-3036
Inmate Locating Service: 202-307-3126
   Another search site on the internet is www.yahoo.com/search/people here you can search the entire country for a name, phone number and location of your target person. Don't forget www.Google.com/search/people  search as well.
   At this point in our website we know what to do to get started on our search and the different directions to look once we get organized. In the remaining sections we will look at some of our cases and how they were

solved. We'll look at the possible dead end and how to make the decision to hire a professional. Once the decision is made to get professional help we'll give you some guidelines to use to hire the best possible candidate.
   The final section of our website is dedicated to search sites and information sources that you might find useful in putting your missing person puzzle together. As I've said from the beginning, this is not a complete source manual for the missing person search. It is however intended to be a helpful guide for the average citizen. To know something about what it takes to conduct a search and possibly to help that average citizen actually begin their own search is our purpose and our only purpose in writing this information. If this happens only once, then we consider ourselves successful.
Section VII
Case Histories
Where To Look For A P.I.
What To Look For - A Good P.I.
Hiring a Professional
Section VIII
Person Still Missing
Witness Locate
Innocent Victim
Parental Abduction
Missing Child
Section IX
Surveillance Techniques
Help From The Professionals
Office Surveillance
Kids and Babysitters
CHEATERS
Who Do You Want To Look At
So You Want Someone Spied On
What Is Surveillance
Using Disguises
Micro Voice Recorders
Cameras
Binoculars and Flashlights
Section X
Tools for Surveillance


Where To Look
Contact Information
Night Vision
When To Use Your Spy Tools
Following Your Target Vehicle
The Stakeout
Being Successful
Section XI
Now That You Know What To Do