Online Reference Resources
Finding People and Organizations

• AnyWho Lookup-- includes reverse lookups, e-mail, phone, fax and 800 numbers when available, and other useful features. Now includes AT&T's Toll-Free Directory
• Associations on the Net: next best thing to the Encyclopedia of Associations
• College Navigator National Center for Education Statistics -- links to more than 9,000 colleges and universities.  Can search by category, geographic location, size, etc.
• Congressional Directory --  contains members of Congress, Biographies, Office Listings, and District Descriptions arranged by state.
• Contacting your Representative -e-mail members of the United States House of Representatives arranged by state and zip code.
• Contacting the Senate-- information and e-mail for current United States Senate members alphabetically by name or by state.
• E-mail the Whitehouse--find out the e-mail addresses of the President, First Lady, the Vice-President and his wife.
• E-the People-- lets you search by issue to identify the officials dealing with your subject at each level of government and write an e-mail online that will be forwarded to your choice of up to three of them.
• Federal Gateway -- links to every federal agency, as well as a reference center.
• Flip's Search Resources- thorough set of people-finding tools, including adoptees' resources, genealogy resources, military personnel locators
• Individual's Personal Pages
• InfoSpace--a database of over 16 million businesses, mapped, with directions to get from one to the next. Of great use for sales, delivery, and customer service staff.
• International Dialing Codes Lookup
• Internet 800 Search-- Find any 800 number (not just AT&T numbers) by key word search.
• Lawyer Locator
• Lawyers -- Find a lawyer by location or specialty. From FindLaw.
• MESA (Meta-E-Mail Search Agent) --search for e-mail addresses.
• OfficialFind -- a search engine devoted to finding the 'official' homepages of corporations and more.
• People Finder Guide- Public Records -- Excellent and extensive.
• PhServer-- Look up e-mail addresses, primarily at colleges and research institutions.
• Project Vote Smart -- "Thousands of candidates and officials, five areas of information. What would you like to know? Project Vote Smart (PVS) is a citizen's organization dedicated to serving all Americans with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making." Locate all contact information here. An excellent site.
• Search Systems - Largest Free Public Records Database Collection
• Search West's Legal Directory
• Switchboard-- phone numbers and addresses for 93 million people and 11 million businesses; searchable even by name only, or by name, city, state.
• World Alumni Net--find your college, register yourself as an online alum, and look for your classmates online.
• Yahoo's Guide to Phone Number and Address Finders