Though it is easier to find out more about an email address, or to find one in connection with someone you wish to find, than a phone number, you do have to know where to look. Email is one of the more common forms of communication that you find today, and probably one of the easiest to use. When you want to know more, look around at various online sources for what you need to know.

If you want to find an email address for a person, you can search them out by name. Put quotes around the name, and then add the tag email to the search criteria. It should look something like this: "Mary Smith" +email, or Mary+Smith +email. When you do this, you should find mention of that full name, and if an email address (or alternative way to email) is present on that page. This is one of the easiest ways to go about this.

You can also see if you can find email searches through some of the major web-based email providers. Most have a database, but you should know that users can opt out of being listed. Some sign up for email accounts with initials, or they may use a different name so that they can not be found this way. You don't know until you try though, so see what you can find in the way of a search through some of the larger email providers.

You can also see if you can find anything through sites that are meant to help you find more ways to communicate with someone. People finders are out there and made just to help you do just that. You can search for someone by name and you may get an address or email address. You may also find that some of these sites have reverse email lookups so that you can see if a name comes up with an unknown address.

When nothing else works, you can find sites devoted to helping you learn more about email addresses and to whom they belong. This type of email address search may, at times, be the only source that can help you with more protected addresses. See what they can do for you.