Finding People

• This guide outlines some of the main sources you can use to help you look for family and old friends
• If you need further explanation about anything in this guide or if there is something you need that is not covered here, you can contact us for information
• The web sites mentioned below are in the Gateway to the Internet at the Finding people section or at the Family history section
• If you wish, you can print all the sections

Contents

• What do you know already?
• Adoption
• Electoral registers online and on CD-ROM
• Printed electoral registers
• Telephone directories
• Internet general search engines and people-finding search engines
• Reunion web sites
• Social networking sites
• Non-commercial people-finding services
• Newspapers
• Might the person you are looking for have married?
• Might the person you are looking for have died?
• Do you need to employ a professional researcher?
• Do you wish to pay a commercial organisation or private investigator?