Super-Sleuthing Search Process "A"

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While this page is a part of the NQHS-1965.org website, there is no direct link to this page from any other unrelated page on the website. The usual way you can get here is to use the link in the email that was sent to you.</div> <bR> <div> You might find it easier to read this if you print it out. If you do print it, be aware that this page may be updated from time to time and you may need to reprint it when the date on what you have on paper is older that what is below. To print this page:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">With Internet Explorer [IE], press the <Ctrl>+<P> keys, then click on the <B>Options</B> tab, then select <B>All Frames Individually</B>, then click <B>Print</B>.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">With Firefox, press the <Ctrl>+<P> keys, then select <B>Each Frame Separately</B>, then click <B>OK</B>.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >This page was</FONT> last updated <B>June 29, 2010</B>.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Links To Other Super-Sleuthing Pages:</B></div> <div> These are the other pages that are related to the Super-Sleuthing process:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="supersleuthingexplained.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SuperSleuthing Explained"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Super-Sleuthing Explained</U></A> - updated <B>June 29, 2010</B>.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Search Process "B" - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >[this procedure will be written later and inserted then]</FONT>.</div> <div> <A HREF="super_sleuthingcallingalostclassmate.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SuperSleuthing Calling A Lost Classmate"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Calling A Lost Classmate</U></A> - updated <B>July 16, 2010</B>.</div> <bR> <div> Search Process "A"</div> <div> Use these instructions only when the email you received with a batch indicates to use Search Process "A".</div> <bR> <div> This is the easiest and perhaps most productive search procedure. We should find many males here and females if we know their married name, as well as females that never married and those that have taken back their maiden name.</div> <bR> <div> We'll search for Classmates using the <B>WhitePages.com</B> website for each person in the mini-Directory. The following are some notes about using this website:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">You don't need to register with them to use it.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There may be several or dozens [and maybe hundreds] of people that look like the Classmate we are looking for. The detailed steps below will tell you exactly what to do, but generally, when there's just several that look good, we want to get the phone numbers of all of them, and we'll call them all.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When we get too many possible matches for someone, we'll abandon this Search Process and use another more sophisticated one later.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When you click down to see the details about someone, there will be several links with names displayed that will take you to places like Facebook, Twitter, or some 'Sponsored Links' or to other such services promising to provide more information about the person you are searching for. <I><B>Don't go to any of them </B></I>as they will all cost money to get any information. We don't want any information about what you might find there either - you'll just be wasting your time...</div> <bR> <div> Detailed Steps For Search Process "A"</div> <div> Follow these instructions to perform Search Process "A":</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Click on the link in the email we sent you to pull up the mini-Directory of the people you are to search for:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">You'll see everything we know about these people that is relevant to this search. The address and phone number could be very dated and if they don't match a prospect, ignore it - that is, they may have simply moved.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To the right of these columns are fields for entry of phone numbers.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Except for the fields with a white background [the <B>Telephone</B> columns], <B>don't change anything </B>in the mini-Directory and don't add or remove any rows or columns either.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In your browser, go to the <B>WhitePages.com</B> website <A HREF="http://www.whitepages.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.whitepages.com/"><U>here</U></A>. For ease of operation:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Press the {F11} function key to go to full screen mode for better viewing. {F11} again will turn this off.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Close all other tabs except for the mini-Directory and the WhitePages.com page.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">You can change now easily toggle between the above two with {CTRL}+{TAB} keys.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">On the WhitePages.com page:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Click on the <B>People</B> tab near the top of the page.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Use the <B>Find People</B> block on this page.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If the <B>Advanced </B>link is bolded in the Find People block, click on <B>Basic</B> mode [that is, Basic should be bolded].</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Now, follow Steps 1 thru 6 <B>for each person in the mini-Directory:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 1: </B>Put the following into the fields on the screen:</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">First Name:</B> as it is in the mini-Directory.</div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Last Name:</B> if there is a Current Last Name in the mini-Directory use it, else use the Last Name field in the mini-Directory.</div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">City, State or ZIP:</B> Key <B>MA</B> in the  field. <B>Very Important</B><B>: </B>Always start the search for each person with MA keyed in this field.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Then, click on <B>FIND.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 2: </B>If you get one of the following messages:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <B>0 results </B>[this can happen with unusual names]:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That means that no one in Massachusetts met the search criteria.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Go to Step 5.e, below.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Whoa! Over 100 Results Found</B> [this can happen with common names]:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Leave the 5 Telephone fields blank and go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 3: </B>Most of the time there will be a list of possible hits displayed, but sometimes it goes directly into a detailed display with the message <B>1 Result</B> displayed. If you get this detailed display immediately, that's because there's only one possible match found - when this occurs, skip to Step 5.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 4: </B>Browse through the list [and go to the additional pages, if any, with the <B>NEXT</B> button].</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 5: </B>Look for a match [or perhaps several matches] <B>in the order below:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 5.a: </B>If the street address<B> OR </B>the phone number matches what we have in the mini-Directory:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Get the phone number of <B>just this one person</B> [perform Step 6].</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Put it into the first Telephone field even when it matches what's already on the database.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Go to go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 5.b: </B>If the middle initial matches what we have in the mini-Directory <B>AND</B> the age range shown is [60-64]:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Get the phone numbers of all that match this condition [perform Step 6].</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If you fill the 5 Telephone fields, stop and go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 5.c: </B>If the middle initial matches what we have in the mini-Directory <B>BUT</B> the age range shown is NOT shown at all:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Get the phone numbers of all that match this condition [perform Step 6].</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If you fill the 5 Telephone fields, stop and go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 5.d: </B>If the age range shown is [60-64] <B>AND</B> the middle initial is missing on the mini-Directory <B>OR</B> missing on WhitePages.com:</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Note: </B>If they both have a middle initial and they don't agree ignore this person on WhitePages.com.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Get the phone numbers of all that match this condition [perform Step 6].</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If you fill the 5 Telephone fields, stop and go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Step 5.e: </B>Now, depending upon what's been done so far for this person, we'll either expand the search or quit:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If this is the <B>first time</B> you have arrived at this step for this person in the mini-Directory:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If you have put something in one or more of the Telephone fields for this person, go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory, otherwise:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Remove the MA from the City, State or ZIP field and then click <B>FIND</B> again:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If you get the message <B>0 results </B>or <B>Whoa! Over 100 Results Found</B>, go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Otherwise, go to Step 3, above.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If this is the <B>second time</B> you have arrived at this step for this person in the mini-Directory:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Go to Step 1 for the next person in the mini-Directory.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Step 6: </B>Unless you came directly to the detailed view for this person when you clicked on FIND, click on the person's name to get there:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Put the phone number you find there into the <B>first empty </B>'Telephone' field in the format (nnn) nnn-nnnn [it's easiest to copy & paste it from WhitePages.com].</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">If the is no phone number displayed on WhitePages.com for this person, put UNLISTED in the phone number field. Do this each time this happens for a person.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a800c811111100.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Return to the Step you were on before you came here.</div> <bR> <div> When You're Done With The Batch...</div> <div> When <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >you are done with the entire mini-Directory, reply to the email you received with the mini-Directory and just say that you are done. You don't have to save, close or attach anything on the mini-Directory.</FONT></div> <div> ...</div> <div> ...</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2225c6d0.png" border=0 width="92" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> © 2010-2011 ~ North Quincy High School ~ Class of 1965 ~ All Rights Reserved</div> <bR> <div>  <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-2521858-1"; urchinTracker(); </script>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>