Synopsis
Tells how to obtain information from public sources, and discusses searches for birth parents, investigations of spouses, business partners, and potential employees, and genealogical searches
Reviews
Parco owns a detective agency in New York and teaches classes at the Learning Annex titled How to Get Anything on Anybody and Researching Public Records. He shares his expertise on these topics in this guide to accessing government records, performing surveillance, genealogical searching, and a host of other means of legal snooping. His techniques can be used to track relatives or deadbeats, investigate the financial history of people or real estate, or discover what public records tell about oneself. Not surprisingly, clues on privacy protection make up the final chapter of the guide. For anyone seriously in pursuit of information or those dreaming about becoming private investigators, here's a good start. Denise Perry Donavin
Written by a private investigator, this book explains how members of that occupation go about obtaining information on people from public records. Using a simple, straightforward style, Parco aims to show how anyone, professional or amateur, can track down information if he or she knows where to look and is persistent. Although he does not go into a great deal of depth, Parco does provide a good introductory text for someone wanting to pursue this type of research or investigation. His book does not contain the large number of names and addresses found in Joseph J. Culligan's You, Too, Can Find Anybody (Hallmark Pr., 1994), but it is more informative about procedures. The two books thus supplement each other. Recommended for larger public libraries.
Robert Logsdon, Indiana State Univ. Lib., Indianapolis
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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