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"Digging Dirt" on The Living and Recently Deceased

In my "real" job (paying job) I am asked to locate individuals as well as investigate the backgrounds of individuals, which is really the best part of my job.  There is no better satisfaction than finding dirt on a cheater!  I digress.  However, I have used these same skills and resources in genealogy research - locating the "living" and the "newly dead."  First - a couple of stories. One patron at the Family History Library (where I volunteer) was looking for someone who had died within the last 10 years, and we couldn't find him on the Social Security Death Index.  However, she had a state and town, so we searched the county's recorded deed records and was able to find the name of his widow - and her current contact information. One gentleman from church wanted to find his dad, who he knew was a dentist in the Navy when he had dated his mother.  We searched the state licensing board for dentistry and found a couple of possibilities, and he had c...

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