Are you trying to find a friend or relative you have lost
This list has been compiled by library staff to help you with your search.
Tracking Services
- Salvation Army Family Tracing Service
Tel: 0207 367 4500
www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/familytracing
- National Missing Persons Helpline
www.missingpersons.org.uk has the most comprehensive and probably the largest database of missing persons in the UK.
- Red Cross International Tracing and Messaging Service
Tel: 020 7235 5454
www.redcross.org.uk/TLC.asp?id=76239
- Message Home Helpline
24-hour helpline for people who have left home or run away; enables callers to send messages to their families or carers.
Tel: 0800 700 700
Websites with searchable databases
- 192.com
www.192.com
is an International site which surveys phone directories and UK electoral registers. After an initial search, you will need to register and pay for credits to access detailed information. There are also links to free business and geographical information, plus a searchable database for property prices.
- Eroll
www.eroll.co.uk
contains official local authority compiled Electoral Roll for the years 2003-2008 and the 2008 Rolling Register, which contains 100,000 monthly amendments. This is a fee paying service.
- Cyndi's List
www.Cyndislist.com/finding.htm
links to other useful sites.
- Lookup.com
www.Lookupuk.com
is an amalgam of various directories, email, etc, which have to be searched separately. Some of these sites are fee paying.
Message posting services
- Myoldmate.com
www.myoldmate.net is a site dedicated to helping people track down lost friends. Various personal security measures are in place.
- Lookup.com
Lookup.com is an amalgam of various directories, email, etc, which have to be searched separately.
- Reunite
Reunite includes links to a number of other sites.
- Friends Reunited
Friends Reunited was designed to help you find old school friends. You may be required to register for access to some parts of the site.
Directories in Milton Keynes Central Library
- Phone books for the UK can be found in the Reference Library located on the ground floor.
- Phone books covering Milton Keynes current and past can be found in the Local Studies Library on the ground floor.
- Electoral Register for Milton Keynes - these are useful if you already know an address and want to check if someone is still living there. Find out here which libraries hold copies of the electoral register.
- Professional directories can be found in the Reference Library on the ground floor
Newspapers
It is often worth putting an advert in the personal column of a local newspaper.
Please note Milton Keynes Library Service cannot be responsible for the content of other organisations’ websites.
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