Use Gmail's "Recovery Contacts" feature to regain access to your Google account during an emergency. All you need to do is reach out to a trusted contact.

When you send or receive mail to or from someone in Gmail, a record of that person's name and email address is made in Gmail's contacts list so that you can quickly refer to people you've contacted.

When I want to find a number to actually call someone on the phone and I know it’s in an email signature somewhere, I generally search for that person’s email address in Gmail and find the number that ...