What works? What doesn't?

Most of the resources I examined worked to some degree.

However, all the sites I checked out that were dedicated to finding someone did not have Jennifer's most recent address, as she moved within the past six months and is not listed. The information on these sites may not be current if the person is unlisted, has not been involved in a court case or civil matter, and their current information has not been "leaked" to the site's database through their credit card or some other way.

I will take the consumer guide's recommendation for their top three people-finding sites, as their testers found far more current, accurate results through these sites : Net Detective; Reverse-Records; and CourtRecords.

I also learned that common Web gathering sites such as Classmates.com and MySpace work, in this case, more effectively than the people-search sites I did searches on.

Another simple search technique that worked was searching for Jennifer's e-mail address on Yahoo's People Search e-mail finder. This would have been a totally free way to get in touch with Jennifer and is also a direct piece of contact information (unlike with Classmates or MySpace, which, although allowing you to send messages through their systems, do not reveal the person's e-mail address).