Finding a childhood friend you've lost touch with.

[Cockney_si]

I lost touch with a girl I met through a friend of my nans, I was about 9 years old when we used to play together. My nan stopped going round to her nans and I moved away.

Was wondering about tracing her....Not sure of her surname and obviously a lot of time has passed, but would be interested to find out if it would be possible.

I've looked on friends reunited but it seems like they've updated it loads and it's baffling.

[wolf63]

Try sticking her name in Google - you just never know what you might find.

[rockyracoon]

Have you tried Facebook?

[Prudie]

I'd persist with FR, have you any idea what school she went to? They have updated the site and it's awful now I agree

[piggynose]

try looking for a needle in a haystack
lol

[Cockney_si]

I don't know what her surname is / was so it's a pretty tough.... I thought about getting hypnotised and maybe my memory has stored where she lived as I did go to her house a few times. It seems very extreme though for something that may not be revealed, ha ha.

[karenmac60]

I did this using genes reunited. Wished I hadn't though - the girl was mental! :-\

[Buenchico]

>>>Not sure of her surname

Does that mean that you can't remember her surname (as it was when you knew her) or simply that you recognise that it might have now changed through marriage? If you only knew her as, say Susan, you'll probably have great difficulty in tracing her but if she was known to you as, say, Susan Macheson, you might stand a reasonable chance of finding her.

A useful trick in locating people can be to forget about searching for the person directly and to concentrate instead on looking for someone who will know where she is. For example if you remember that Susan Macheson's brother was called Zebediah, then looking for Zebediah Macheson could be a relatively simple task.

192.com lists everyone in the country who is eligible to vote and who hasn't marked the box (on the electoral registration form) to have their name excluded from the edited version of the electoral roll. It also lits everyone whose name appears in the Phone Book. Some information is free but most is charged for. (However you can still see, before you pay, whether there's anyone with the relevant name on their lists):
http://www.192.com/

Chris

[4getmenot]

is your nan still alive to remember her name or your mum

[Cockney_si]

I definately don't remember her surname, although she did have an older sister and I do know that we all went to London Zoo together in the early 80s.

Yes she could be mental/married/moved on to a higher plane.

I don't think it's an impossible quest, but it is a difficult one.

[sherrardk]

Do you know which primary school she went to? Quite often there are FB pages for different schools, she might turn up no one of those.

[Cockney_si]

Not sure what school and my nan wouldn't know her surname either, all a bit vague really.

I know fragments of info but not a lot of real info to go on.

[Eve]

What kind of a place was it she grew up in? Even if it's a larger place there may only be a few primary schools she could have gone to, ditto secondary schools so worth persisting on Friends Reunited (I agree about the changes, baffling!) to see if any names match. There are boards you can use for people you are looking for and, although it seems you may have missed the boat with FR interest, it only takes one person to see it who would know who she even, even just to give you a surname or more details to go on.

Many schools also have Facebook pages/groups so they are also worth a try.

Do you still go round that way where your nan lived or know anyone in the street, especially older people - maybe other friends of you nan's? Possible that someone round there would know - maybe even chance sending a letter to her old address as, who knows, there may still be someone there who knows her or her family or where she is, especially if it's a small place.

Even if they don't, if they are nice people then they might end up asking around.

[horseshoes]

An old schoolfriend found me. We went to primary school together in Nantwich and then we moved back to Wales and we lost touch. She found me through FR and the name of the school. We're now in constant touch on FB and we're hoping to meet up next year when she visits te UK. She has lived in South Africa since the 70s. We'll have SO much catching up to do. So don't give up. Good luck.