Friday, November 2, 2007

Something to Get Started

https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php - Colorado Division of Registrations "ALISON" (Automated Licensure Information Online). Contains licensing and disciplinary information for nearly all licenced professionals in Colorado. Use it to find the doctor who has moved twice since your client last saw him or as an investigative tool to find that hard-to-find person. You would be surprised how many people are licensed for something. They are required to keep their address current with DORA, so chances are you can get a good address through this site. If their address is incomplete, call DORA and ask them for the complete information. It is public information, so they will provide it to you, even if it's not listed on their site. I have also used it for asset checks.

http://www.zabasearch.com/ - This site has given me great information in trying to locate someone and to do asset checks. It pulls a lot from property records, so if your subject owns several pieces of property in a given state, you will get the addresses.

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm - directory of official state, county and city governments.

https://www.cbirecordscheck.com/Index.asp - Colorado Bureau of Investigations records check. Searches cost $6.85, but they can provide extremely valuable information about people.

http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/index.html - The National Archives, National Personnel Records Center. Official Employee Folders and Employee Medical Folders of Federal civilian employees are located here. Also has military personnel, health and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century. Finally, they hold all medical treatment records of retirees from all services as well as records for dependent and other persons treated at naval medical facilities. All forms required to request these documents are on the site.

This next link is a link to an article about the Invisible Web. I just started going through it recently and found it very interesting, so I thought I'd share. Obviously, there is a lot of information on the Invisible Web that we should be tapping into whenever possible. Happy reading. http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google

Now for a laugh:
http://www.rinkworks.com/said/courtroom.shtml - funny courtroom quotes

If you find any interesting sites, feel free to post comments, or email me directly at melanie@donaldsonlaw.com.

Melanie Stuckey, Paralegal

http://www.donaldsonlaw.com/ - a Denver Personal Injury Attorney

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