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\"\"<\/a>My investigations are rooted in financial documents, as I am most often trying to trace money and figure out where it went. (Thus, my unofficial tagline of: “I find money!”)<\/p>\n

But incorporated into the financial investigations is often background investigative work. To be clear: I don’t do deep-dive background investigations. For something like that you’d go someone like Marcy Phelps<\/a> or Philip Segal<\/a>. If the point is just getting a better understanding of the people and entities involved, however, I do some of the legwork to find that.<\/p>\n

I’m often looking for names of family members, friends, roommates, business associates. I want to find addresses of homes lived in and other properties owned. I might be looking for addresses that were used by business entities. Sometimes I’m looking for pictures of people or places they lived.<\/p>\n

Rachele’ Davis of New Hope Investigations<\/a> inspired me with this post on resources for background investigations<\/a>. Obituaries and Facebook. Neither of these are new, but it’s fun to be reminded of resources that you might forget about. Now to be fair, Rachele’ does a lot of investigations related to adoptions. So she may use these resources in a bit of a different way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s how I would use obituaries and Facebook in my financial investigations:<\/p>\n

Obituaries can tell you about….<\/p>\n