Westlaw PeopleMap: Uncover someone's connections—in an instant

Westlaw PeopleMap is the dynamic new tool that lets you quickly discover relevant information about people and their connections.

Thorough cross-referencing helps you quickly discover relationships between people, their assets and other public information, and other individuals. Use Westlaw PeopleMap to visualize the "big picture" and focus your research.

Westlaw PeopleMap is fast, intuitive, and easy to use. Just supply a name (and permissible use), and Westlaw PeopleMap brings you the following:

A Microsoft Virtual Earth map that shows the geographic location of each person with the name you entered. The map enables you to tell whether an address is residential or commercial or a box at a strip mall.
A graphical display of public records and other individuals connected to the person selected, with links to the underlying records. This display enables you to get a better view of an individual's relationships.

Running a Westlaw PeopleMap search

At the tabbed PeopleMap page, type an individual's name or Social Security number in the What do you know about the person? section. Select the appropriate items from the Permissible Uses drop-down lists and click Next. The Results page is displayed.

Results page: Is this the right John Consumer?

The Westlaw PeopleMap Results page can spare you the time you might waste from investigating the wrong person. In the left frame, the names and current addresses of the individuals matching your search criteria are displayed. In the right frame, a map is displayed with alphabetical markers showing the location of each individual.

To retrieve more information about an individual listed in the left frame, select the check box next to the individual's name, then click Next. Information is displayed in an interactive graphical display.

Interactive graphical display: Which records and people are connected to this person?

The left frame of the interactive graphical display lists the records that Westlaw PeopleMap found for the individual you selected. A confidence level next to each record indicates the likelihood that the record is in fact related to that individual.

In the right frame, the interactive graphic display shows the relationships between the individual and related parties (other individuals named in the records). You can click the name of a related party to display the full range of records pertaining to him or her.

Restrict the details shown in the display by using the tools available in the toolbar at the top of the right frame.

Tip: For comprehensive listings of the jurisdictions and coverage dates available for each document type, click Back on the Links tab of the graphical display to return to the Results page. Click Coverage at the top of the page. Then click a link to view the coverage for a particular document type.