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    Recently discovered this programme on Morning TV.( I think BBC 2) Found it very interesting because their Researchers seem to have access to modern research files showing where living people reside.
    There is to my utter embarrassment The Salvation Army who have a Division specialising in tracing lost Family, a fact I wasn't aware of.
    I'm wondering what options they have that I don't when researching.

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    I know that in years gone by they used to be able to access National Insurance records and other sensitive records not available to the rest of us. I expect this is the same today.

    Of course, they might just be using 192.com!

    OC

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    • #3
      Hi Alan,

      I, too, have just discovered Family Finders, and am thoroughly enjoying the series. We are have seen five episodes now.

      I was under the impression that only the Red Cross helped to locate missing family, so I was amazed to find that the Salvation Army did too.

      I am driving my husband crazy pointing out when they are using FMP, ancestry, family search etc!

      Bcbrit
      George, Uren, Toy - Cornwall. Barrows, Blair, Bowyer, Freeth, Green, Manie - London

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      • #4
        Salvation Army has been reuniting fractured families for nearly a century now Red Cross tends to concentrate on those families torn apart by war etc, where the SA is more "domestic" if that's the right word.

        OC

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        • #5
          I'm amazed 'Bcbrit' how relatively easy they all seem to find people after dozens of years. I never knew my paternal grandfather and was never able to find a death record for him (neither could FTF members) but could The Salvation Army?......suppose I could ask.

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          • #6
            Alan

            no, Salvation Army will not look for people who are obviously deceased, as their remit is to reunite living family members. Depending on the circumstances of his "disappearance " though, they might look to see if he remarried and had more children.

            You can only ask!

            OC

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            • #7
              Thanks for the comment OC..............I think he would have been too old for more children....................now there's a thought!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by AlanC View Post
                Thanks for the comment OC..............I think he would have been too old for more children....................now there's a thought!
                What? Too old?
                My father used to say that a man is as old as he feels, and when he stops feeling, he's old!
                Right, I'd better get my coat.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by AlanC View Post
                  Thanks for the comment OC..............I think he would have been too old for more children....................now there's a thought!
                  The oldest father I have on my tree married for the second time in 1911 when he was 82. First daughter of the marriage was born in 1912 and the second one in 1915.
                  The second wife was born in 1874.
                  There were 11 children from his first marriage, born between 1857 & 1873.

                  Jay
                  Janet in Yorkshire



                  Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree

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                  • #10
                    Must be the Yorkshire air)

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