Backgrounding People & Companies

• Background sources for your story and subjects of your story, so you have no surprises.
• You can use backgrounding tools and techniques to find someone.
• You can background someone to verify what they are telling you. 
• You can background to find context, history, and detail for your story. 

Every piece of information you find (an email, phone, relative, middle initial, address) is a lead that you can further search in Google and in people-finding databases. 

Public Records.

Records that the government is required by law to keep and include birth certificates, deeds and professional licenses. 

Publicly Accessible Information.

Information generated by a person or entity that can be accessed using commercial databases like LexisNexis, Accurint or Pipl.