These days just about everyone has a cell phone, whether it be the elderly or school age children. Despite the number of people using cell phones, it still remains difficult to trace back a number that is a cell phone or private number. With traditional landline numbers, the caller's information is displayed on the caller id, but not if you have a cell phone. If you want the address of the phone number, you may as well forget it, you will not find it. You can now get on the internet and do a reverse phone number lookup to find the name and address of who has been calling you.

If you are wanting to get the information, such as a name and address of someone who has been calling you, what do you do? You have many options, and we will discuss them here.

So what to do? The first thing you can do is do a search on your favorite search engine for the number. Plug in the number and see what pops up. You can also type the words free reverse telephone number lookup and you will find several results. Yes, you can get the information for free. Of course, you will only get general information and it will not help you with cell phone numbers.

To get the information you need, type in the ten digit number that you will find off of your caller id or the detailed phone records that the phone company provides, you will need this in order to make a successful match. It is important that you have all ten digits of the number to be successful.

Once you have the ten digit number, you can begin your search. Enter it into the phone field of the reverse telephone lookup directory that you chose to use. The kind of information you get will be determined by if you chose a free or paid lookup system. The free ones will not provide you with near as much information.