Free Email Address Finder: How to Find Someone's Email Address

Emails have got an unprecedented and inevitable position in our lives today. Try to recollect a day when you have not checked your email in the past few years. Difficult, isn't it? Nevertheless, these emails are amazingly fast tools for communication. Addresses have become so synonymous with email addresses that sometimes I have blurted out my email address where I had to give my postal address! But you could be in a fix if you lose an email address and cannot find it!

If you are in a situation when you desperately need someone's email address, here's how you can find it.

Tip 1
Check out if you have the email address of the individual in an earlier email correspondence. For example, if you are using Gmail, there would be a column on the main Gmail interface which will say search Gmail. Just type the name of the individual and do a search. Check out inbox, spam, trash, sent items folders and labels, along with the cc, bcc, etc. Search for nicknames and parts of the name as well.

Tip 2
An easiest way to obtain an email address would be to search for that individual on the Internet. You can search on Google or Yahoo or Bing just like you would search for anything else. Add some other information along with the original search if the search results are not satisfactory.

Tip 3
Let's complicate things a bit more. Publish a web page saying who you are and whom are you looking for. Ensure that the name of the person you are searching appears a lot on the web page. Do not forget to include your email address, because that is how that individual is going to get in touch with you. This will work well when the person you are looking for, does a self search on the Internet.

Tip 4
There are innumerable web directories where you can search for the email id of that individual. Spock, LinkedIn, 123people, pipl people search are some of the free sites which you can visit and find that particular email address.

Tip 5
Well, if the previous tips do not work, try guessing the email of the concerned individual. To begin with, check out the school, company or the organization to which that individual belonged to. Then see what the domain name is. A domain name is what follows the 'www' of a website. Frame an email address using that person's name and the domain name. Also check for a general purpose email on the homepage of the website. Try combinations of the names - with full stops, underscores etc.

Tip 6
Why didn't it occur to me? Well, this could be a natural reaction when it dawns upon you that the simplest thing to obtain a person's email address is through a common acquaintance.

Tip 7
Business cards are one of the most basic tools to reach a person. It can provide you with the phone number of the company as well the email address. If the email address does not work, you can always dial the company's number on the card and fish out more information.

Tip 8
Well, there has been an upheaval in your mail box, you have searched everywhere you could think of and still have not found what you wanted. You might as well try this as the last resort. Usenet newsgroups and SOCNET can be tapped to track the email address.

Email addresses can be tricky to find out. It could happen that even with all this you might not get the email address of the desired person. Then, in that situation, waiting and hoping that the person finds you is the only thing you can do. However, I wish that whoever reads this article finds it useful enough and actually finds out the email address he or she wants.

Have a great time hunting down the email address!