Finding someone who's dropped off the radar?
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Finding someone who's dropped off the radar?
I'm sure there have been loads of posts for missing persons, but I've just learned that a dear friend has probably left the area/country and can't yet track her down via google,facebook/etc. Anyone any suggestions? Can BE help or are there better ways?
#2
Re: Finding someone who's dropped off the radar?
do you think they might have returned to the UK?
if so, give it a little while then the phone book
this happens all the time to us expats - we make friends & so do the kids & then they just disappear
every September after the first day back at school the kids come home & tell us that so&so has disappeared - dd2s teacher didn't anunciar a couple of kids yesterday when he did the register apparently - although there were about half a dozen missing
some of course simply won't have bothered to turn up but will on Monday, although some might not be coming back & not have bothered to inform the school
more recently it's been happening more & more
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Re: Finding someone who's dropped off the radar?
It's actually very hard to completely disappear nowadays. We leave a trail every time we append our names to any kind of form that is registered somewhere, from a school register to house purchase, from an online Amazon transaction to signing on the padron, from our passports and driving licences, hire cars, holidays – the list is endless, and social networking sites come near to the top.
And if free searches don't produce results, the ones that you need to pay for dig a lot deeper.
And if one of the hellishly expensive private detective agencies can't find someone, the next logical step would be a search of the death registers.
And if free searches don't produce results, the ones that you need to pay for dig a lot deeper.
And if one of the hellishly expensive private detective agencies can't find someone, the next logical step would be a search of the death registers.
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Re: Finding someone who's dropped off the radar?
Well I have to admit not having looked terribly hard thusfar, just the obvious facebook/google/etc & naturally her Spanish mob but I understand there to have been a reason she left her previous home so the person I might have approached isn't really available to enquire from. Sadly it's a fairly common name, too!
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Re: Finding someone who's dropped off the radar?