Factual Research on the Internet
Persons, Places and Things

Persons

People In General

• There are a lot of "people finder" sites. Most of them run right off the phone book, so why not go to the phone book: http://www.anywho.com/ 

• General purpose portals often have "people finders": http://people.yahoo.com/ 

Lawyers - Yourself and Others

• http://pro.wsba.org - basic data on WA lawyers

• http://www.martindale.com/

Court Filings 

• http://www.courtlink.com/ - lets you search many courts by party name

Businesses

• http://www.knowx.com/
• http://www.hoovers.com/
• http://www.findsvp.com/
• http://www.businessweek.com/
• http://www.edgar-online.com/
• http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html 
• http://www.companylink.com/
• http://www.ctadvantage.com/
• http://www.databaseamerica.com/
• http://www.semaphorecorp.com/wdtg/pform.html 

Websites

• Who owns that website? http://www.allwhois.com/ 

• What's that website running? http://www.netcraft.com/ 

• What did that website look like last year? http://www.archive.org/ 
  [the Internet Archive]

Places

• Many sources of maps & directions:
  • http://www.maps.com/
  • http://maps.expedia.com/
  • http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/home.jsp
  • http://maps.yahoo.com/
    

• Counties (health facts): http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/
  

• Courts (federal): http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/sites.nsf/main/page
  

• Facts About Places, generally

  • http://www.britannica.com/

  • http://www.3datlas.com/

Things

Auto-Related Government-held facts

• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/

• http://www.nhtsa.gov/

• E-mail to WASP for Police Report: www.metrokc.gov/sheriff/index.htm

• Tickets: www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/courts/house.htm

• Traffic Cameras
  www.wsdot.wa.gov/PugetSoundTraffic
  

Medical

• CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/

  • National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

  • WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System): http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
    

• http://www.amhpi.com/healthsource/ArticleSearch.html 
• http://www.healthlawyers.org/home.htm
• http://www.ama-assn.org/
• http://www.healthgate.com/HealthGate/MEDLINE/search.shtml  
• http://www.hcfa.gov/
• http://www.healthatoz.com/
• http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/HSGuide.html 
• http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html
• http://www.merck.com/
• http://www.nejm.org/

• Journals
  http://www.carl.org/
  http://www.ama-assn.org/
  www.lido.com/corp/index.htm
  

• Experts
  www.medquestltd.com/
  

• Medical Records Request
  www.va.gov/forms/default.asp

Jury Verdicts

• http://www.lawyersweekly.com/

• http://www.juryverdictsnw.com/default.htm

• www.wstla.org
  

Virtual Library Products

• http://cpsc.gov/
• http://law.house.gov/103.htm 
• http://www.ljextra.com/practice/productliability/index.html
• http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/products_liability.html