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Boongie Pam
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Tracing Living Relatives
« on: Sunday 23 July 06 21:47 BST (UK) »

Searching for living relatives (or recent ancestors) and Rootschat

Rootschat is a forum where we can all learn and help each other understand the many different resources to trace our family trees.

In general we work backwards from ourselves to the past and most of us can get back a hundred years just by speaking to our families.

Not everyone is so fortunate and every user of Rootschat will understand how hard it is to get started when you do not know your near family. We all empathise with the difficulties and emotions searching for your family can bring.

With this type of research we have to be especially careful for a number of reasons.

Firstly, anything posted on the internet is in the public domain. Anybody can see this information - including unscrupulous types. To protect people and their identities we do not encourage the posting of information about people who are or maybe still living.
Even with permission from the subject of a post we would seriously advise against giving too much information as to betray their identity.

The Rootschat moderators reserve the right to delete or edit posts that we believe may contain information that could be misused to the detriment of the subject.

Secondly, if information is given about living people or of the recently deceased and this is found by them or their close relatives there is a risk of upset and trauma.
So please be prudent in the information you post.

There are many ways to trace living relatives using publicly available telephone directories, "friends" websites (e.g. alumni sites, school sites etc), local newspapers and electoral registers.

If you are searching for long lost relatives it is recommended to use a support service who are trained intermediaries.

One such service provided in the UK is by the Salvation Army.

LINK: Salvation Army Tracing Service

LINK: Tracing birth parents

There are a number of other sources you could try

http://www.1837online.com has records of births marriages and deaths to 1983 though you will have to pay and will need to know an approximate date of birth (within a few years) to make it practical

http://www.192.com/search/people.cfm which provides electoral register details for 2005, though you may have to pay.

http://www.b4u.co.uk/ free but outdated electoral register information

http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk well known site helping people find old school friends etc.

http://www.missing-you.net

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/research/traceline/index.asp#0

Best of Luck,
Pam


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RE: Tracing Living Relatives
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 13 October 07 15:46 BST (UK) »

May I just add that www.genesreunited.co.uk is also a good source, and that 1837online is now www.findmypast.com.


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Re: Tracing Living Relatives
« Reply #2 on: Monday 24 December 07 09:12 GMT (UK) »

Thank you Pam for your quick reply ,I should have known it would be too soon to give any details regarding my cousins .I will try some oher way .I will get in touch with my brother and see if he knows .All the very best for xmas and a happy new year to all the team .You all do a great job looking things up for us for which we are truelly grateful Thank You Joan


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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 31 January 08 20:48 GMT (UK) »

There's a reasonable amount of good information on how to start tracing living relatives on Rootschat. I've just been having a look at a site called eHow which gives tips on "How to Find Relatives Who Emigrated From the United States." These tips can be adapted to make it easier to find living relatives in any area ...

1. Establish their last known address.
2. Many people, unless they've moved in connection with their work, tend to move to the county or country where their ancestors originally lived so try to learn about the history of your family as it's possible this will help in finding living ancestors.
3. Use online forums. eHow states that "on heritage-specific forums you can post requests for missing family living abroad to contact you. Be sure you can post your information anonymously and receive contact through the forum (ie use a Personal Message facility) This way your private information will be protected." An extra piece of advice ... don't disclose too much information about the living person or persons as their privacy also needs to be protected. Don't show their phone numbers online even if their numbers are in a telephone book. Telephone companies give people the option to have their number in a phone book or have an ex-directory number. If you put it on the internet you've not given them an option so have intruded on their privacy.
4. If you know where the person attended church, played sport or worked send a message to the church, employers or sports club as they may be able to give you some information. I know that when a member of the RTBI (Round Table of Britain and Ireland) moved to a new area the club from which he was moving used to post a message to the club in the area where he and his family were going to live telling them about the move so that there was a good chance of the family getting a warm welcome on their arrival and would not feel like total strangers in a new area.
5. Do some networking. Contact friends that you and the living person shared. A friend of mine did some excellent networking as we'd lost contact for almost twenty years. I tried to find him online and managed to find a much younger guy, with the same christian name and surname, who is a Glasgow based singer. My friend had more success. He contacted a mutual friend who hadn't a clue as to my location but his wife then played her part and did some networking so the friend searching for me was able to contact my sister and get my contact details.

The National Insurance Contributions Office (formerly the Contributions Agency) may be able to assist in tracing missing relatives, but this is only in the event of a family crisis such as a death or sudden illness.

Check this link for a few more ideas on how to find living relatives. http://tinyurl.com/dd7cz


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