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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do genealogy research, and it is rare that I cannot find out some information about someone online. [b]You don't have to have an "online presence." You don't need LinkedIn or Facebook, Insta., etc.[/b] But with a name and a city, you can usually find an address or a phone number along with names/relatives you are associated with. I look on whitepagescom, or addresses.com.

You also might be listed as a relative in an obituary announcement or as the subject in a former marriage/engagement announcement or as a parent in a birth announcement. You might be mentioned in a church bulletin or a volunteer group or if you ran a race. If you bought real estate, I can look up real estate transactions or property records. If you have a kid and mention his name, he may be listed on school/sports/scout sites, etc.

The hardest people to find are those with very common names in large cities. So John Smith in Los Angeles and David Schwartz in New York would be very hard without additional information. But Elliott Blackburn in Bethesda should be pretty easy to find if he's not lying about his name.[/quote]

Right. People latched on to online and equated it narrowly to social media accounts (and then got smug about how they are too busy and important and smart to post a pic on Instagram) and this is what OP was talking about, if you can't find any online trace of a 40-plus-aged person these days it might be a red flag. [/quote]

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