No trick that I know of. Most of these sites, as you are seeing, cost something. You might try Radaris.

Persistence helps; keep googling. Sometimes you can find city data/public records listings. It has taken me awhile but I almost always manage to get some information that then leads to other information. But sometimes that information is completely wrong: for example, I found that when I type my own name into Intellus the address is one I lived at nearly 35 years ago; and Radaris has a photo on "my" listing that is not me! I learned some of this the hard way by attempting to do genealogy--not a good idea.

I do still get phone books for my locale; however, many people have dropped their listing.

go to zabasearch.com and fill in the fields, I found all of my classmates that way.

Well, Zaba gave me the address but not the phone number. Argh!

Did Radaris have anything?

I would be surprised and rather annoyed if anyplace has cell numbers.

No luck with Radaris unless I pay. This is ridiculous.

Try anywho.com/whitepages

It's possible that your party no longer has a land line or that it's unlisted. Might be why you're not finding a phone # for them.

Anywho took me to the Yellow Pages site but I did find an address! Getting closer.

I did google my own name and city and of course all my info popped up. Grrr.

I use Dex Online. There are 'paid' features but if you scroll down you can get the info for free. A word of caution-I searched for DH and it listed an address we've never been associated with. We don't have a land line, so it didn't give a phone #.

I use the reverse search and the address search a lot at work. A reverse search will tell you if the phone number is a cell phone, but the regular search won't give you a cell phone number.

Another way to find addresses, if it's an individual and they own their home. Our county has a pretty complete real property tax site. It's public record. If you know they live in that county, you can put in the name and it'll bring up addresses that they own. Doesn't have phone numbers. Also, if there are multiple people with the same name, you have to know which one.

I use it quite often, because DH does home repair. Sometimes he'll give me a partial address for billing, or he has incomplete info.

I never thought of the county records. I have used that before and will try it for locating addresses. This should not be so hard. Den is interesting, too.

Often the white pages have the non premium results buried lower in the results page. It has gotten much harder to find a simple name, address and phone without having to wade through a bunch of junk. And as Oly mentioned many people are getting rid of their landlines.

We still get a phone book and when I bring it to the recycling center the walk-in dumpster is full of new phone books. It appears no one, including me, want them. The phone book front cover always have a fridge magnet ad for some business, usually a lawyer, and those cover the walls of the dumpster.

Unless they've dumped their landline, you'll most likely find just about anyone on anywho.com.

I have saved my old phone book but now it is several years out of date. I used to keep one in my trunk and it came in very handy more than once. I'm sure it's true that many no longer have landlines.

That's funny about the magnets on the dumpster. For me they are useless anyway since they do not stick to my SS fridge, not that I would ever use them.