Guide To Tracing People 01 04 2009 www.findpeople4u.co.uk

Guide to Tracing A Person 01 04 2009 www.findpeople4u.co.uk

We at FINDPEOPLE4U Ltd are private detectives, tracing agents, and probate researchers. We work to the highest professional standards and are proud of our success rates over 81 % 2008 and 2009. This guide is designed to give the public a brief background to successfully tracing a missing person.

Most people who instruct tracing agents like www.findpeople4u.co.uk have made their own basic enquiries into missing people normally by accessing on line research sites like 192 .com Trace smart or other similar companies. These companies are not able to facilitate a full trace action. It may be you have important information to pass onto them about a change in circumstances within the family or a forthcoming family event like a marriage or death. In these circumstances you cannot spend many hours or weeks waiting for information.

We complete over 50 % of our instructions within 8 hours of receiving an instruction. Online sites like 192 .com and Tracesmart.com allow you to search for a fee edited electoral rolls and other public records which in all probability the person you are searching for are unlikely to be recorded upon for a number of very obvious reasons. It is a fact that over 44% of the population are not recorded upon the 2009 edited edition of the electoral roll. You cannot expect to succeed in your search by merely trawling registers of births, deaths, marriages or telephone directories. That is a reality of life.

Obviously the best place to start with your own search is with the old known address for the missing person , you may if you are very lucky get a direct link from the old address to the new address or you may find a living family member who remains resident who may be prepared to supply current information. If that is not possible try identifying the missing persons DOB that will be useful if you have to carry out checks upon marriage records to identify a possible new name.

The general public are not normally aware that since 2002 the public have the right to Not be recorded upon the public version of the electoral roll; on-line sites are ONLY allowed by law to allow the public to access the restricted or edited electoral roll. That means for 2009 well over 44% of all public record searches will be returned negative. All those who have searched for missing friends or family members will understand that accessing free or pay per click on line search engines can only take their investigation so far. It is the skill and experience of the tracing agent armed with the most comprehensive personal information data bases that the general public do not have access to that succeed. That is a fact. It is like going to a local garage mechanic to have your hair cut! You just would not do it.

The best advice we could give you is to employ professionals to do the job, there are many professional tracing agents not only our company, in the long run it makes more sense than paying for credits on old and out dated on-line people search sites.

There are a number of things you can do to help an investigator locate your missing person Today! Think hard about the person you are considering tracing and record down onto paper everything you know about them, especially any previous addresses, other close family members or places of employment.

This process is especially important if you have not seen the missing person for many years. Start with:

1. Name
2. Age
3. Former address (That’s the most important bit)
4. Known family members
5. Occupation

A lot of valuable information can be obtained from Births Death and Marriage records
Birth Certificates and Records Guide

To be able to utilise the basic tools of a genealogist or tracing agent you should first accept some basic and obvious facts.

We are born, we live and then we die.

That might seem particularly gloomy, but along the way we leave traces or to use a tracing term we leave a “footprint” of ourselves. Those foot prints provide vital tracing clues and help to build a picture; not only of the person but of the life they led.

Their birth indexes are divided by year, and each year by quarters. Each quarter is then divided alphabetically by surname. So, if you know a person's full name and date of birth, in theory it should be easy to find in the index. However, it's worth remembering that, with six weeks allowable for registering the birth, it might not appear until the next quarter. With all the information from the register, you can order a copy of the certificate.

What a Birth Certificate Can Tell You

A birth certificate can impart quite a bit of information about an individual. It gives the names of both parents (at least where the father is named, which is not going to be the case every time). You'll always get at least the first forename of each parent in full - all forenames before 1865 - and their occupations. Additionally you find where the child was born, right down to the street address, and even the mother's maiden name. It makes for an excellent starting point.

Where a Birth Certificate Might not Help Your Research

If you're having problems locating the registration of someone's birth, there are a few factors that might be the cause:

The person might have changed their name (by deed poll, for instance) later in life. It's not common, but it does happen. The person may have been adopted.

There could be more than one person with the same name born within days of each other in the same district. The more information you can supply, such as exact date of birth or parents' names, the greater your chances of success.

The entry might be in a different district. Just because you were told (or believe) a person was born in a certain place, that's not necessarily true. Be willing to check the information for surrounding districts, too.

The birth might have been incorrectly indexed. Since clerks only wrote what they heard, a name could have been misspelt or a date of birth record incorrectly.

Marriage Records

A marriage record will reveal a wealth of information upon a missing person. It will detail and an address at the time of the marriage, the age at the time of marriage and also the new partners name. In the case of a female it will also detail the new known name i.e. the married husband & surname.

Death Records Guide

They say only two things in life are certain: death and taxes, and there are records of both. But to a genealogist, death is actually the least important part of the cycle. Once a person's been born and had children, their genealogical use is, to all intents and purposes, over. After all, you can trace your ancestors without knowing when they died, and a lot of family trees don't include the date of death.But death certificates definitely have their place in genealogy. The age at death can give a very close idea of birth date, and the home address can be used to locate the family on the census.

We understand only too well that tracing people can be very difficult for the public to achieve and are available to discuss your individual case and offer free advice on the best way to proceed, you can email a question question@findpeople4u.co.uk or request an experienced private detective telephone you to discuss your options all at no cost to you. Thank you for reading this quick guide

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