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People Finders

Here are some useful websites that have been specially selected and monitored by staff at Telford & Wrekin libraries.
We cannot, however, take responsibility for their content.
General Adoption Armed Services Missing People
People-finding Services Reunion Sites

General
192.com
Claims to be the most powerful people and business finder in the UK. Search by name or address in the people finder. You can search the Directory Enquiry listings for free or register and buy search credits to view data such as Electoral Roll information. Search by type or name in the business finder.

BT Exchanges
Search the phone book by name to find the telephone number or address of UK residential numbers. Excludes ex-directory entries. Search by type or name to find the telephone number or address of UK business numbers.

Infobel
Gateway to worldwide telephone directories.

Royal Mail
Online postcode finder and address finder facilities. 15 free searches allowed per day.

Yellow pages
Business directory, with search by name, business type, or location, and including maps.

Adoption
Adoption, Search and Reunion
This website is intended to be the first port of call for anyone thinking about searching for or making contact with birth and adopted relatives. There's information about recent changes to the legislation, the right to make or refuse contact, finding intermediary service providers and information about Adoption Contact Registers.

After Adoption ActionLine
A voluntary adoption agency and one of the largest providers of adoption support services in the UK. Their free ActionLine can give advice on tracing birth parents and tracing adopted people.

FamilyRecords.gov.uk - Topics - Adoption
Provides details of where to go for information and what information is available.

General Register Office - Adoptions
Includes information on the Adopted Children Register, access to birth/adoption records, and the Adoption Contact Register for adopted people or their birth relatives wishing to make contact with each other.

Armed Services

Forces Reunited
Claims to be 'the largest UK database of Armed Forces and Ex-Forces personnel on the web'.

Ministry of Defence
Click on the following links for information on obtaining service records for the different organisations.
Obtaining Royal Navy service records and medals:
http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.00h007001
The Army Personnel Centre can assist in tracing soldiers either still serving or those who have discharged in the last 5 to 6 years (or later if they are still on the Army Reserve List).
http://www.veterans-uk.com/service_records/army.html
Royal Air Force service records:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/links/contacts.cfm

Royal British Legion
The Royal British Legion's Lost Trails section is for making contact with old Service friends and colleagues or searching for news of former comrades and their families.

Missing People

Missing People (formerly National Missing Persons Helpline)
A UK charity dedicated to helping missing people and supporting their families while they wait for news. For those who wish to call home, have information about a missing person, or are concerned about a missing friend or relative.

MissingKids
A police website dedicated to finding missing and abducted children. Photographs can be searched by time, period and location.

People-finding Services

British Red Cross
The British Red Cross run a tracing and message service. They can help with Tracing family members internationally where the family has been separated and has lost contact due to war or disaster. These may be recent conflicts or relate to past conflicts, such as World War II.

Look4them
A gateway site set up by nine organisations which specialise in helping to find missing people or those who have lost contact with their families.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army run a family tracing service. The aim is to restore (or sustain) family relationships, by tracing relatives with whom contact has been lost, either recently or in the distant past.

Reunion Sites

Friends Reunited UK
Find and contact old friends from school, college, university or workplaces.

Genes Reunited
Can be used to find lost living relatives as well as for tracing family history.

Help Me Find
Connecting people who wish to find and those who wish to be found.

Missing You
Offers a free instant online message-posting service to help locate missing or lost friends or relatives.
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