A friend of mine here in the USofA, has recently discovered that she has a half-sister in the UK.
She knows her birth name and date, (1946) but has no idea how to locate her.
Any suggestions on to go about this?
Thanks
Try looking her up on www.friendsreunited.co.uk - it’s the UK equivalent of Classmates.com.
Try this 192. Put myself in and it certainly worked.
Assuming the simple steps suggested above don’t work (along with googling her name!)…
One simple first step - try getting a birth certificate from the General Register Office. If you have the exact date of birth, I think you’ve got enough information.
Obviously the biggest problem is that most 59-year-old women no longer have the surname they were born with. This is why pinning down the place of birth is useful - you can then make contact with local history groups of the area, etc., and also local newspapers, and you may well strike lucky in that either she still lives in the area, or you can find further information about where she now is.
Oh, and another useful link: http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
Thanks, I’ll pass those along.
My friends brillant plan was to send an email to everyone in her address book and then ask them to foward it out and sooner or latter her sister must get it.
:smack:
Naturally, I’m opposed to this.
If she does get a name and area, she could try using the Post Office or British Telecom websites to get an address and phone number.
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po
http://www.bt.com/index.jsp
The local registrar for the area will have any birth, marriage, divorce papers loded in the vicinity and her name may well be on the electoral register.