How to remove your old addresses from the internet

People focus on their current address and ignore the ten years of previous ones sitting underneath it. Address history is the field that answers your bank's security questions, and it shows anyone tracking you which direction you moved.

Difficulty

◷Moderate

Time

2–4 hours

Cost

Free

Steps

5

1. 01List every address you have lived at for ten yearsIncluding short stays and college addresses. You are going to search each one.
2. 02Search each address in quotesAddress-indexed sites publish who lived at a property over time. Those pages are separate records from your name listing.
3. 03Remove name listings that include address historyWhitepages, Spokeo, TruePeopleSearch and the rest publish the history inside your profile. Removing the profile removes the history with it.
4. 04Remove address-indexed pages separatelyClustrMaps, NeighborWho and Ownerly index by property, not by person. A name-based removal leaves these completely untouched, which is why people think they are done when they are not.
5. 05Accept what you cannot changeThe deed and the tax assessment are county public records. Those are not coming down, and the address-indexed sites will keep re-deriving from them.