Background Check/Finding People
 

Ancestry.Com (Census, birth/death, marriage, immigration, and will information)

AutoTrackXP (subscription)
Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
Freeality Find People
Freeality Reverse Directory
Government Records (Requires login)
Infospace
Legacy.Com (Obituaries)
Peoplesearch.Net
Selective Service System (Requires name, dob, and ssn)
Switchboard.Com
 

Corporate Research

Company Sleuth
Copyright Search
CorporateInfo.com
Hoover's
Major Media Company Ownership Information
Standard and Poor's
Trademark Information

 

Country Research

CIA World Factbook


Criminal and Civil Records and Court Information

Courtlink (Subscription)
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Florida Criminal History Information
National Center for State Courts
Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database Search
PACER
Sex Offenders Registry
Superior Information Services


Enforcement Actions

Inspectors General
Office of Defense Trade Controls
OTS Prohibition Orders Database
SEC Enforcement Actions
World Bank



Financial/Follow the Money Research

10K Wizard FEC Filings
ABA Routing Numbers
Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.Org)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
FDIC
MissingMoney.Com
National Institute on Money in State Politics
Offshore Business News & Research (Subscription required)
Political Money Line
SEC EDGAR Corporate
SEC EDGAR People
SEC Enforcement Actions
Stoks.com
U.S. Tax Court

 

Foundations and Organizations

The Foundation Center
Federations and Unions on the Internet


General Reference

AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
ARIN Whois DNS Lookup
MapQuest
RefDesk.com
U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Directory
Network Solutions Whois Records
Weather
Military Search


Government Resources

Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

GSA Forms
GSA Homepage

Government Search Engines
 

CopSeek and Police Search Engine

FedWorld
Firstgov
Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press
Thomas Legislative Information
USGovSearch.Com


Image Databases

Google Images


Internet Search Engines

Altavista
BoardReader.Com (Search online message boards)
C4
Dogpile
Excite
Google
Google News Groups
HotBot
Ixquick Metasearch
Metacrawler
Profusion
Search.Com
Search Engine List
Usenet Addresses Database
Usenet Directories
Yahoo
Yahoo List of Engines by Country and Region


Investigation Resouces

CrimeTime Publishing Co. (Includes P.I. directory)
Investigative Reporters & Editors


Language/Writing Resources

Merriam-Webster


Legal Research

Access Reports
Center for Democracy and Technology
Code of Federal Regulations (Cornell University)
FedLaw
Findlaw
Legal Dictionary
Legal Information Institute (Cornell University)
Federal Lobby Filing Disclosure Program
Martindale-Hubbell


News/Media

Associated Press
Boston Globe
CNN
Kidon Media-Link
London Times
Media News
MSNBC
New York Times
Market Watch
NewsLink
Washington Post


Public Records Services

BRB Publishing
Charles E. Simon & Company
Docusearch (Subscription required)
G.A. Public Records Service ( $8 per search average)
Loc8fast (Subscription required)
Nexis (Subscription required)
Search Systems
Washington Document Services


Publications Databases

Dialog (Subscription required)
Dow Jones Interactive (Fee based)
FindArticles.Com
Namebase Book Index
Northernlight
Nexis (Subscription required)
Project Gutenberg
U.S. News Archives on the Web