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Offline Llwyd

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Wow......at last!!!! and HELP from Arkansas Rootschatters please.
« on: Friday 12 August 05 12:47 BST (UK) »
Last night,whilst having nothing better to do,I was perusing the internet and just by chance decided to Google a relatives name.

Guess what......I found postings on a site from someone in America asking for information on the same individual.

My Great-Uncle is his Grandfather.........wow,great excitement!!!!!  :) :) :)

Now,here come the rub.Unfortunately,but for reasons which I completely understand,the web site is not able to supply me with this persons E-mail address and he has not been in touch with them for some time.There is,however,a message on the site asking him to get in touch,via E-mail,as they may have information for him.To my disappontment he has not contacted them.

How can I trace this individual in the U.S.A.?.

I have posted messages to the Rootsweb Message Boards and I have tried E-mailing the city/area,via the city web site, where he lives but that was returned undelivered, as I was not authorised to E-mail them.

I have had one reply to my posting on Rootsweb Message Boards but that was only to advise me to try a certain County.

Suggestions/ideas please as to how I may trace this person,assuming I don't receive any positive replies to my messages and he does not get in touch with the UK site again.
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« Reply #1 on: Friday 12 August 05 13:45 BST (UK) »
The short answer is that there is nothing obvious you could be doing. However, sleuthing will be required and this site is chock full of sleuths.

You didn't say what site it was on, this message you saw.

If you let us know who you are looking for and what the message said etc we can look for clues to help you find this person. You could google their name if you knew it or could work it out, for instance, to see if they are on the web through their work. You could google their surname if it is the same as your great uncle's and the state in America, if you know which it is. There are various social security sites for America and I imagine they have their electoral roll on line, like we do. An american rootschatter could help with that.

Basically, you need to tell us what you have so we can get sleuthing for you

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« Reply #2 on: Friday 12 August 05 17:41 BST (UK) »
Hi there,

Thanks for the advice. I'm trying all sorts of things but I was just hoping someone on Rootschat may have the definitive answer.

I'm getting some useful responses from the States via the Rootsweb message boards but if anyone out there in Rootschat land can help it would be greatly appreciated.

The person I am trying to trace is a John Humphreys of Little Rock, Arkansas.That is all the info I have.
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« Reply #3 on: Friday 12 August 05 17:59 BST (UK) »
Hi Llwyd,

There's a whole buch of sites on the web dedicated to tracking down people in the USA - you should be able to find quite a few by Googling.

I had a quick look and found a www.switchboard.com which found a John Humpheys in North Little Rock along with his address, phone number and 2 e-mail addresses!

Have you tried Googling "John Humpreys" "Little Rock"?  Google throws up 5 pages that might be worth trawling through.

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« Reply #4 on: Friday 12 August 05 19:02 BST (UK) »
Hi Llwyd

I had similar experience only a couple of months ago.  Knew the person's name and that he lived in Saskatoon - couldn't track down any email addy for him.

Tracked him down by looking for any people with that surname who had Saskatoon for place of birth on GenesReunited - then sent the person who had listed them an email asking for their help.

Turned out it was his wife - and the person she had listed was her niece!

Don't give up - someone somewhere will track him down.  We must have some rootschatters in Arkansas surely ;D

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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 13 August 05 00:22 BST (UK) »
Whats this Googling I am always hearing about ???

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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 13 August 05 00:50 BST (UK) »
Hi Celia
Google is a search engine, and a very good one at that     ;D

Just put Google in your search bar & hey presto          ;)

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« Reply #7 on: Saturday 13 August 05 10:45 BST (UK) »
To those of you who have provided advice/assistance,thank you. I was hoping someone may have had a magic formula but for the time being I shall plod on.

I shall now start contacting the John Humphreys's located in Arkansas, probably by letter to start with rather than phone/e-mail and hope I eventually get the right one.I'll get him eventually. :) :) :)
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 13 August 05 11:40 BST (UK) »
Llywd,
I had a similar occurence a month or so ago, I found someone searching for someone in my line on a message board, but the email she gave was a dead address. She was in New Zealand, so I put out a message to New Zealand Rootschatters.  Well the long and the short of it was, she emailed me after a NZ rootschat member rang her!  I agree with hlbradd there must be some Arkansaw rootschatter out there who can help.

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