Genealogy Chat

Thank you for those suggestions Chris, and also your kind words. Very much appreciated.

Diane, I've sent you the link, but for anyone else who is interested, the site I use is http://www.onlinesearches.info/index.php which is £10.75 for a month. I don't subscribe every month, I hammer it to death, then leave it until I have a batch of other info I want to look up.

Gerry

Have PM'd Gerry and thanked Chris. Hope I can offer good advice.

I do have an additional aid in that I have access to a programme on the internet that I pay for searching that is a very good search aid. The site is called Tracesmart but can prove expensive to general searchers.

Joan

Gerry

Have you looked at Curious Fox

http://www.curiousfox.com/

'The village by village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland. Every UK county, town and village has a page for family history, local history, surname and genealogy enquiries.'
I have sometimes seen postings requesting info on possible living relations.

Another one...

http://www.missing-you.net/

I have no other suggestions as to what programme/websites may be of additional use to you but would like to say....

Good For You!!!!! And all others like you willing to give their time (at personal financial cost) to help others find possible living relatives.

As an aside....It would be worth your while, I am sure, asking Joan whether she has possible additional online resources.

Good luck

Chris

Since helping my friend find her adopted children (with a lot of help from Joan on here), I have started getting very interested in helping other people find missing relatives who are still alive, or who have passed on but within our own time span. I am a member of Ancestry, so can check BMD records, and I also pay for a monthly subscription to a site which covers the electoral roll. I have found so many people from my past that it has been truly amazing, and I have now branched out into helping others in my spare time (not for payment, but for the happiness of seeing others reunited with lost friends). My latest achievement was finding my best friend's cousins whom the family lost contact with after their parents were killed in a car accident when they were small. Also another lady who had not seen a very good friend and the Godfather of her son for 48 years as they lost contact when they moved. This lady was elated, and likewise so was the lost Godfather, and they spent all day chatting and catching up.

I want to help more people, but need another search programme, as what I am using does have considerable gaps. Can anyone suggest a decent programme or site to join? I have looked at 192, and do sometimes use it to confirm when I can find the info elsewhere, but the price is extortionate and the info not much different to what I am already getting.

Any suggestions would be most welcome as I have a few other people that I am trying to help but am stuck on.

Many thanks

Gerry