How to find a school friend

Georgiegirl256

Have you tried on twitter too? Not everyone has Facebook, I do t, but I do have a twitter account.

Spendless

If she was in your year at school you'll know her birth date within a 12 month period. Ask someone with ancestry membership to look up her name within that time scale, if she was born in the area you schooled in that will also narrow the search down and easier if she had an uncommon name. From that you could see if that name married- I think records go up to 2005 and from there do a facebook search.

Grumpelstiltskin

If she was born in England or Wales with luck you should find her birth on here.


http://www.freebmd.org.uk/


You may then find a marriage, although records after 2005 aren't online, and Free BMD isn't complete.

Goldiegirl

I was going to suggest Ancestry.

Look up her marriage, then google the married name and see what comes up.

Of course it helps if the surname is not a common one, but I've looked up loads of people in this way, and have found out what they are doing now.

seawaves

You can use Ancestry for free at some local libraries.

74jax

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

If she was born in England or Wales with luck you should find her birth on here.


http://www.freebmd.org.uk/


You may then find a marriage, although records after 2005 aren't online, and Free BMD isn't complete.

I can't find her on here, I'm also not on, so maybe our records from the district we are from haven't been uploaded.

Spendless

74jax wrote: »

I can't find her on here, I'm also not on, so maybe our records from the district we are from haven't been uploaded.

I've just tried to find my sister, rather than myself as I was born under a diff surname. Unusual surname, never left the area she was born in and she doesn't come up. I suggest that the records aren't up to date or wholly accurate and would try a different route suggested.

sleepymans

Why not leave a message on your facebook page asking her to get in touch. Bear in mind that she might choose not to rekindle contact.
Some peolpe prefer their privacy and others just dont wat to look back into the (possibly painful)past....who knows how painful that might be to some people?

I always think that if you were such good friends then you wouldnt have lost contact.
Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and all that.

mgdavid

bmd claims to be 100% on births for my birth year yet doesn't find me. Make of that what you will...

Grumpelstiltskin

You should be able to find it but one thing you need to remember is that births can be registered up to 6 weeks later so you can be born in June and your birth registered in July which is a different quarter ( birth registrations are shown in quarters )


Also on FreeBMD don't put too much information in search, less is more, although if you were born John Smith expect loads of hits.