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How To Reconnect with Lost Friends & Family Through Online Search
Posted by Admin on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Finding long-lost family members can be quite an undertaking
When my family immigrated to the United States two generations ago, they left behind a lot of their old lives. Among the things lost were family connections. Today, with so much time passed, finding long-lost family members can be quite an undertaking!
I recently traveled to Italy, where my great-grandfather left behind two brothers and many cousins. On a whim, I checked the local phonebook in the area where they lived and found a whopping four full pages of listings with his last name. I don’t speak any Italian and I had no way to know whether they were related or if his last name is just that common in that region. Frustrated, I gave up and just enjoyed other aspects of my vacation, knowing there were connections I was missing.
Back at home I started my online search of my long lost relatives. Google results overwhelmed me and a track-back at Ancestry.com could only take me so far. Without knowing a lot of information about this extended family, I was totally lost. I had a few names but not much to go on, so I gave up again.
Two years later, a conversation with my mother spurred my interest once again. She knew a little bit more about them (still not much) and we decided together to try to track them down. We each did a little research about people search services online and both of us stumbled upon NetDetective.com.
We signed up for a three-year membership to NetDetective.com for just $2.95, which got us unlimited access to public records like birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates. My mother and I searched anonymously, thanks to NetDetective’s identity protection, and we came up with some surprising results. We found many of these long-lost relatives living right here in the USA, spread out in states close by to where we live!
Going back through the records, it was easy to draw a straight line to my great-grandfather’s family members, each connected to the next through public records. And with NetDetective’s thorough locator services, we could find contact information for many of them. Once we connected with those in the US, we were also able to find relatives back in Italy!
After years and years of wondering what happened to our long-lost relatives
After years and years of wondering what happened to our long-lost relatives, all the answers were uncovered almost instantly by this fantastic records search service. NetDetective was money well spent, since we were able to search and search until we uncovered each and every relative. Now, I’m happy to report how many familial “pen-pals” I have throughout the US and Italy. It also doesn’t hurt to have a place to stay the next time I want to go back to the “old country” and spend time with relatives I spent my whole life not knowing.
With this branch of my family uncovered, I hope to next explore the other sides as well. Who knows who else I’m related to?
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She is my yrue love I lost her 3years back so I want to talk to her for the last time pleas I need her in my life so pleas find her I can’t stay with out her please try an find her
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Kim
i am looking for my mom betty louise (brady) moore robinson illinois 62454
Hi Barbara:
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Kim
Brenda Lee Cameron
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1961
Birth Time: 08:54:PM
Birth Facility: Mary Fletcher Hospital
Birth Town: Burlington
Birth County: Chittenden
Mother’s Maiden Name: Humiston
Mother’s name: Barbara Ann
Mother’s Birthplace: Vermont
Mother’s Residence: Burlington
Father’s Name: James John Cameron
Father’s Birthplace: Vermont
Filed Date: 30 Jan 1961
Event Type: Certificate of Birth
plz help find her.
Hi Christal:
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Kim