Adopted1981 on Family Tree Circles

Is there an easy way to find names that seem impossible. Is tehre anyway to get information without having to pay out the nose for it and then how can you be sure your not wasting money on a person that isn't the person that you wanted. It's frustrating. Especially when it seems one website seems to gobble up all the information you need and you seem to reach dead ends when you can't afford to pay for the needed information. Maybe it's just me. I don't know.