Here are 3 free tips to do a search for your military friends or an ordinary free people search without paying someone to do it for you. With a little time, effort and creativity, you can possibly do a military people search for your military friends without the assistance of a professional investigator. If you decide that you do need the help of an investigator to do, make sure you research the professional qualifications and reputation of the person before you pay any fees or give any personal information to them for a paid people search.

1 WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PERSON
Sit down and think about everything you remember about the person or know about the person. Think about their past addresses, high school, and universities attended. See if you can remember names of family members, hobbies, their last name, nickname, profession, or any organizations they were involved with. Think about any other personal identifiers that you can remember about the person. These personal identifiers will help you focus your people search and will often help lead your search efforts. This information can be changed as you move forward with your search. You may also want to keep a list of people searches that you have already used so you don\'t repeat your efforts.

2 DO A REVERSE LOOKUP ONLINE
If you have a phone number and that is all for a person or you have an address or no phone number you will want to do a free reverse people search on a reverse lookup site to find the missing information. You can also do a free reverse phone number search, reverse address search or reverse email search by entering them into a search engine like Google or Yahoo to find any web pages that they appear on.

3 DO A SEARCH ON SOCIAL WEBSITES
Online communities and social networks are big and people are publishing more and more information about themselves on these sites, including pictures, location information, educational background, professional background, nicknames and other personal identifiers. You can use these sites to do a military people search free through their online profiles, but you will need to refine your people search tactics, since most people do not post first and last names in online profiles. You may want to search using first names or nicknames along with other identifiers like schools, geographic areas, hobbies and profession(s) to locate a person on these sites. Below is a list of some popular social network sites like Myspace, Friendster, or Facebook.

A military people search is really not that hard. You will just need to surf the net at various websites that collect personal information on people. You will want to plug in to those sites and see what types of information you can dig up.