Journalists toolbox

The Journalist’s Toolbox, newly sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, has tons of links to all sorts of useful web sites, from public records directories to Find-a-Grave.

People finding

Mark Schaver at Depth Reporting has some great entries on people-finding (via Liz Donovan at Infomaniac).

Court directories

The National Center for State Courts links to state and local courts in each
state, and provides organizational charts showing the court structure for each state.

Public records links

Need to know whether you can do online criminal or property checks on someone in another state? BRP Publications has a list of free public records sites, indexed by state and county.