UK People Finder services across the entire UK
people finder. Finding old friends absent pals an ex-love, or indeed a first love, that’s what we do across the entire country. Extending further to the Republic of Ireland and beyond.
Find a person in England. People like you could be perhaps searching for an old mate, or a staunch trusted and devoted old friend, someone lost through the trickling sands of time.
Trace an ex-girl/boyfriend or former school teacher.
Search for someone in England. Our people Finder are not in any way private detectives, debtor chasers, Bailiffs, or anything of a forensic nature.
Our person tracing services are non-hostile and designed purely to reconnect you with an old friend from the past. We cover everything related to people find in England and beyond. Our tracing service offers a gentle touch.
Looking for a teenage first romance
Finding people within the UK is what we are primarily focused on. Reconnecting you to people or friends who for whatever reason you lost touch with.
People lost along the way in your life. Those who for a wide variety of reasons somehow became disconnected.
For example:
Looking for old school friends
Or maybe other children whom you grew up with. Your Youth era, Work, College/University, Armed Forces, Former Boy/Girl friends-Old Flames. Also, very popular are enquiries from ex-pat requesting us to help them find an old flame.
Very nostalgic, to be sitting on some exotic beach and remembering growing up in Scunthorpe some 50 years ago. (No offence intended to Scunthorpe)
Also, many people approach us from within the U.K. seeking to reconnect with a teenage boy/girlfriend who came to the UK many years ago as a visitor.
Perhaps they were a holidaymaker or an Au pair for example
Below is a story of a love story that began in 1961. A lovely young Swedish lady on her first visit to England. A lovely story: Story Of My Lost Darling | From Sweden
Obviously, the motives to reach out again after 50 years might seem to a younger person bizarre, baffling, and unreal fantasy world.
Especially when the motives can be merely no more than to just say hello again, and ask how has life has been for them? For many of our senior citizens, this is a very important aspect of their life today.
They are a very determined bunch! Even though on the face of it (and we warn them) the task seems virtually impossible, they still say, press-on.
Indeed, the more obstacles placed in their way the more determined they become. Which is lovely, demonstrating a good heart!
Especially urged on with the inexorably ticking of the father time clock
It does in some cases becomes quite obsessional with some people to get on with it, and now! That is despite us often trying our very best efforts to dissuade them from doing it.
What does the future hold for People Tracing UK?
In our view, in years to come, we shall become more or less redundant.
In contrast, from 50 years ago (non-digital age) people nowadays early on, exchange emails, Facebook, and or mobile phone numbers. This data is permanent and portable, remaining with you forever.
Even if a mobile phone number changes, you have the backup of Facebook or emails, where your personal ID rarely changes. There will be of course some isolated cases, but not so often.
Let’s take a brief look at how we go about it.
The trick with people tracing is to know precisely where to start. One would think with the amount of today’s technology at our disposal it would be quite easy to trace people. But many people quickly find themselves running into dead ends.
Doing the job yourself.
Searching for people has recently become more popular, especially tracing genealogies. You can use the national archives register as a starting point. Or another great source of information is parish registers, many dating back hundreds of years. Their records are usually immaculate.
We’ve discovered when conducting people tracing – proper preparation is crucial.
If you strike lucky, the research can be conducted solely from the comfort of home. Just by using the internet, telephone, and/or mailing. If only it was always that easy!
Although Facebook has its perks for people tracing, the problem is when you type in for instance “Frederick Smith”, you will be staring at possibly hundreds of profiles with the same name from all over the world.
So where do you start, which one? Also, many search strings on Facebook are not searchable. Plus, if the person doesn’t add you as a friend, there is only limited information available about them for you to go on. We have discovered many people register on Facebook and then never use it.
There are numerous outlets you can use, and you might find you happen to hit the jackpot. But bearing in mind you need to prepare yourself for endless hours of combing through local libraries for address listing from 5o years and then knowing what to do with the date…good luck!
Often to progress a case we need to visit the central archive held in the British Library in London,-that’s quite a day out! We could go on but don’t want to bore you.
If you do employ a professional and bearing in mind the average trace takes about 30 hours to complete it’s going to cost a bit more than 10 quid.
Good luck.
People tracing | How Much Will It Cost?
For orientation and comparison may we show what you might expect to pay elsewhere with one of our competitors-see below. Basically, it’s an initial £250.00 followed by an additional £798.00 payable upon successful conclusion of the search. Total £1047.00. It should be noted they make the first approach on your behalf.
When we have found their current address you can either write to them directly or alternatively, we can write to them on your behalf. Before you ask…no, there are no telephone directories in existence anymore. Nobody uses landlines these days either. Also, email directories to the best of our knowledge do not exist either.
Payment deferment. There is an option for you to pay in 3 instalments, via our Payments partner PayPal, ask for details.
Where the trace goes outside of the United Kingdom and we have to employ local support the costs will inevitably rise. Ask for a quote.
If we discover the individual is deceased we waive the second part of the payment. However, sometimes we cannot detect this information until we are deep into the search Especially if it’s a female whose name changed may have changed 3-4 times. Do we honour this? – See thank you note from a former client Lorraine Elvin – click here.
Are there any guarantees of a successful outcome? In a nutshell-NO. To make such a claim would be dishonest.
Take a look at some aspects of a typical research case we might undertake.
When we have found their current address you can either write to them directly or alternatively, we can write to them on your behalf. Before you ask…no, there are no telephone directories in existence anymore. Nobody uses landlines these days either. Also, email directories to the best of our knowledge do not exist either.
Payment deferment. There is an option for you to pay in 3 instalments, via our Payments partner PayPal, ask for details.
Where the trace goes outside of the United Kingdom and we have to employ local support the costs will inevitably rise. Ask for a quote.
If we discover the individual is deceased we waive the second part of the payment. However, sometimes we cannot detect this information until we are deep into the search Especially if it’s a female whose name changed may have changed 3-4 times. Do we honour this? – See thank you note from a former client Lorraine Elvin – click here.
Are there any guarantees of a successful outcome? In a nutshell-NO. To make such a claim would be dishonest.
In the unlikely event (which never happened) the information we supply is incorrect (it’s triple verified) we will initially pursue it further and if eventually unsuccessful, provide a refund of the second part. We have so far never given out an address which is inaccurate.
Once we are 100% certain we have found your lost friend to avoid any misunderstanding we would like to make it clear we shall not provide the full and final information until the second payment has first been made.
We realise this is something of a chicken and egg situation and someone has to trust someone. However, for us to do that frankly would be commercial suicide. Moreover, we only ever had one client who expected the information first before we were paid.
WHILST YOU ARE HERE!
Take a look at some aspects of a typical research case we might undertake.
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