answers1: Genealogical research usually involves dead ancestors.
Finding living people is a different animal. <br>
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Regarding spelling: spelling wasn't standardized until fairly recently
(in genealogical terms). Even with standardized spelling, mistakes get
made. My own credit report has 5 spelling variations where some clerk
mis-typed my given name, No genealogists is ever really sure of
spelling. They check for all possible spelling variations. <br>
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Graduation and birth records are protected by privacy laws, putting
them online, especially for free, would be an Identity thief's dream
come true. <br>
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To find people you need a full name. Otherwise you have no way to know
if you're looking for John Smith or Robert Smith. For genealogy, we
often start with limited or partial information. It's rather common to
find a record with mother's maiden name, for example. If you know
dad's name was Robert Smith and mom's maiden name was Jones, you can
look for marriage records for Robert Smith to a Jones to find out her
name was Martha Jones and she was born in Stark, Ohio. <br>
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Some places for finding / connecting with living relatives: <br>
Facebook, Twitter, social media <br>
Google (if they own property or a business, you might find an address,
write them and old fashioned letter.) <br>
Yellow pages (paper or online) <br>
Zabasearch <br>
Local newspapers <br>
Genealogical message boards (if they are interested in genealogy maybe
they're researching the same dead ancestors as you).
answers2: genealogy..by specific definition, is the tracing of
ancestry of a person, which normally will involve deceased persons/
relatives. What you are discussing, is completely different and uses
other information sources. Despite all the current political mess,
living persons are normally given certain rights to privacy. For
example.. a birth certificate is controlled by the state and limited
to specifically authorized persons. This is to prevent id theft, among
other reasons. The same is true for school documents. <br>
Yes, there are sites for tracing living persons, which often involve
fees, since the site operators often pay a fee to the state for
release of some databases. States need money, clearly, and I am not in
favor of that being a reason for making certain records "buyable".
Reputable and ethical researchers NEVER give info about living persons
without their consent. <br>
Do I look for live persons?? of course, normally for the purpose of
sharing research with them (mainly offering them what I find..not
expecting info). Facebook is one site I do use for this..with the
concept that they have chosen to put their name online for social
reasons. <br>
Bottom line is asking yourself... what is your reason for finding
these persons? if living, they are not your ancestors (they may be
related which isn't the same thing).
answers3: Genealogy is about researching our ancestors and they are
normally dead, which often allows us to look at records or at least
indexes of records.....although many records are nor open for privacy
reasons until 70-100 years depending on the country and their
laws.......... <br>
To research your ancestry <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin...</a>
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You are not doing genealogy you are people searching and living
people, which is not genealogy research and has completely different
'records' many which you are not able to see as they are private to
the living person, and so protects them from people who wish to steal
their ID.......... <br>
Lookig for living people/friends/family etc you needa full name and
you will get very limited information <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/adoptionlivingrelations.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/adoptionl...</a>
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