There are many sites offering online electoral roll searches, but are they really worth it? Unfortunately there is no cut and dry answer for this, as each individual has different needs and differing situations. We will however try to help you determine if it’s right for you.

Search engines such as Google collect pages from across the web allowing us to search the content of those pages. This is great if we are searching for a person and their name can be found on a static web page. Unfortunately, standard search engines are unable to tap into the vast quantities of...