Miscellaneous Resources

Shea's Search Series - A Definitive Guide to Self-Empowered Adoptee Search
http://www.plumsite.com/shea/series.html
This premiere search series has brought many searches to completion. It requires strong commitment from a person to gather information and work the problem. A detailed accounting of: Making the Decision to Search; Initiating a Search; Documents, What they are, Where they are, and How to find them; I have a name! Now what?; Choices in Searching; Petitioning the Court.

Emergency Medical Locators
http://www.adoption-free-search.org/registrationpage.htm A nonprofit organization that conducts free biological searches for anyone who is in need of their medical history during emergency and life-threatening medical situations

Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions
http://maps.yahoo.com/

Classmates
http://www.classmates.com
Look up high schools in Nevada. Military sites too, including Nellis AFB.

Military City
www.militarycity.com
Research all branches of the military, including Nevada specific. The site allows you to search the Installation database, search for long lost loved ones with the Personnel Locator, post to message boards, and chat.

Family History Centers
http://www.genhomepage.com/FHC/fhc.html
This is a listing of LDS Family History Centers, with listings for: Alamo, Boulder City, Carson City, Elko, Henderson, Las Vegas, Logandale, Reno, and Winnemucca.

Phone Searches
http://www.phonesearchcentral.com/
Fee service. Specialize in hard to find telephone information. Most searches are completed within 24 to 48 hours. Reverse cellular number, reverse land line search, phone lines at a given address, cellular acquisition search.

Search Systems - Public Records Locator
http://www.searchsystems.net/
The largest directory of links to free public record databases on the Internet. Find business information, corporate filings, property records, unclaimed property, professional licenses, offenders, inmates, criminal and civil court filings, and much more.

Public Records Online
Access to a gold mine of public records that can be found on the Internet.
Below are assembled a list of links to help you get started. Because the list is long and constantly changing, it is not comprehensive. Nevertheless, here are a few suggestions:

http://vitalrec.com has links to sources for births, deaths and marriage records.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/alphabet.htm is a federal government Web site listing addresses where you can write for vital records, such as birth, death and marriage.

http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm has links to state and county real estate records nationwide. A few birth and marriage records can be found here.