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Resources And Ideas To Help You
Find Classmates
- Spokeo
- free people search, excellent results.
- White Pages - Start your
search here.
- Any
Who - or Start here (similar to White Pages).
- ZabaSearch - Is my new
(best) favorite search method. Excellent detailed contact information
but it really helps to have a first or middle initial of the person
you are looking for. Wow! There are a LOT of people with the same
name.
- Google
-this search will pull up web sites they are listed on but it will
also pull up variations of their name that are not related.
- Wikipedia
- Try this search, sometimes if
someone has done
something of notoriety you will find them. I did, and was shocked by
what I found.
- Next...call old phone numbers if they are on
the list given to you. If a number is bad listen for a forwarding
number.
- Now call or email the alumni association.
The
classmate may be on their list. They do mailings yearly. Their link is
on our Home Page. (See if you can find it now). Identify yourself as
being on the Reunion Committee. They may or may not provide you
information. Its possible they will only work with one person from the
committee or just the committee chairman. Its worth checking what their
policy is.
- You may already have an account at one
of the
following 4 web sites. There may be others too. If not open one for
FREE. Of course they do have paid memberships also. You just have to
skip or bypass all of their SIGN UP NOW FOR PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP if you
don't want to pay a fee. You may find someone at one site and not on
another. It takes time but usually you can do preliminary searches to
see who is there. You can usually send them a message. If so, invite
them to visit our web site. Sometimes you will be able to see an email
address, but it may not be current. They may list all classmates who
are registered at our high school from all years. Make sure you click
on our graduating class year to sort by only our year. This saves time
going through the list.
- While on these class,
social networking and
reunion sites DON'T FORGET to contact possible siblings. They are in
classes before and after ours with the same name. Ask "Are you related
to.....". Of course there are many that have the same name and are NOT
related. If related, see if they have information on our classmate or
ask them to forward a request to visit our web site. Ask if you can
follow-up with them in a week or so if the classmate has not signed up.
Or ask if they will let you know when they have sent a request to their
sibling. (Otherwise you may not know if you had a successful contact).
One problem you may run into: many classmates that originally
signed up on one of these sites several years ago probably have changed
their emails or have moved and did not update them. - ONE IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN CONTACTING SIBLINGS OR
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS: They may be hesitant to just give you (a
possible stranger) information or an email address. It helps if you give
them our web site address: www.SPHS72.com and give them the
administrators email address: SPHS72@gmail.com. If they don't know you
they should feel more comfortable with this.
- Facebook
- Classmates
- MySpace
- When all of the above has failed the next
option is to try one of the next three web sites. They can be free but
they really want to sell you a membership or get you to pay for a
service. This is up to you. It may be worth it. People Finders has a 24
hour membership (once) that you can try but you have to select one of
their advertisers offers. It may be a free or minimal fee but it allows
you to use the service for one whole day. You might want to try it on a
weekend when you want to devote a block of time to hunt for a large
list of people. Make sure you document all of the information you find.
Be careful, there are a lot of people with the same name (and yes even
with the same middle name) when searching across the U.S. for someone
who may have moved. It is definitely helpful to have their full name or
initials. Most classmates in our class of 1972 were born in 1954, a
small group in 1953 and yes I know of one born in 1955. She must have
jumped a grade at some point.
- People Finders
- People
Searching
- Old Friend Search
- Okay, now we are getting to the LAST RESORT
METHODS. I consider mail a last resort because the alumni association
has most likely already tried the address we have on file at least once a
year. But if a classmate has moved in the last five months there is a
chance to get a forwarding address. Of course sometimes emails change,
phone numbers may have been changed, people are using cell phones and
canceling home phones, and some people just don't respond. Maybe because
of too much junk mail, spam email, and unwanted solicitation phone
calls. So....try mailing a letter or postcard to the last known address
on the list you were (or will be) given. They may still be there. Put
"ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED" on the envelope on the bottom right side
of the envelope or postcard.
- Advertise in the
local paper (you know...where
the high school is located). You may be able to put in a FREE ad that
states we are trying to locate "Missing Classmates" to attend the 40th
Class Reunion. There names are: (list them). Relatives, friends and
neighbors who still live in town may know where they are and could
email our class email address.
- RELATIVES, FRIENDS
and NEIGHBORS who still
live in town are possibly listed in the phonebook. You can check for
names that match the classmate you are looking for but that could take
some time calling each one and asking if they know or are related. But
it does work. Let them know why you are calling first. "I'm trying to
find so and so who was a classmate of mine that we are trying to locate
for the upcoming reunion". If you know the address where the classmate
lived you can also use CRISS-CROSS directories to find phone numbers of
neighbors who may know where they moved to or other helpful
information. You can find these directories at the library for free or
Google them on line but this will probably cost a fee to use them.
- How To
Investigate-Public Records Sites - this may be useful but you
will have to read through it and decide if anything would be helpful to
you.
- Department of
Justice-Missing Person Search: If you can’t find them, do a
search to see if they are on this list. Hopefully not, but so far we
have found one.
- Social
Security Death Index Records Search: FREE search through year
2007. I love this and use this all of the time for family history
research and have found several classmates information here. Of course
the sad thing is that they are not with us anymore.
- Crime Time -
I SAVED THE
BEST FOR LAST (Well, what I think is interesting and exciting to use):
Way down at the bottom of the page, under RESOURCES click on Black Book
Online. WOW! THIS IS A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE FOR LOCATING INFORMATION
OF ALL SORTS. IT IS ADDICTING! It is not necessarily just for
researching those who have become criminals although you will find lots
of that. There are resources that help in many areas and if you have
time scan through all the different amazing resources!
- If you ever come across a classmates email
address the BEST thing to do is ENTER THE EMAIL ADDRESS on the HOME PAGE
of our web site, at the bottom right side in the "MISSING CLASSMATES"
box. (You can also go to their name on "Classmate Profiles" and it will
ask if you have their email address. You can enter it there too). They
will get an email invitation directly from the web site administrator.
It is nice and official looking! You can
email the
classmate yourself if you want, but please do this after first entering
it into our web site as outlined above. Go ahead....put your email
address in to see what the email looks like that they will get.
- If you have any other resources or methods
that you feel should be added to this list, please contribute!
Thanks and Good
Hunting!
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