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These are simply a list of addresses I have been sent on various occasions by various sources I have by no means contacted all of them. Fees may be payable and some will be unsuitable for many circumstances but remember that one thing leads to another and the cost of a stamp may get you a vital lead. There are
a few web links as well to get you started.

There are a number of organizations who collect information on people and or have resources they can use to help, IF THEY WILL.
The Salvation Army will not help in the case of child seeking an unmarried parent

In Great Britian there are many private organisations mainly for British offspring looking for U.S.Military Perants

Now here is one you will see a lot if you are looking for a Military person. To use this 'as with most you must do it by post' (I'm a poet and didn't knowit) and for this one you need a special form known as The Standard Form 180 Which they will send you. and, as with all government or military sources you need the patience of a Zen Buddist and a couple of extra life times helps. The thing is that lots of information is still on paper and it requires someone to go through it all to find what you've asked for.

The National Personnel Records Center
Attn: Military Personnel Records (State Army / Navy or Whatever)
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis
MO 63132-5100
USA

tel 314 263 3901 fax 314 538 4175 Don't try to fax or call in for information, you could however get a SF180 this way.
The Personnel Center lost lots of records in a fire or something and are still trying to rebuild them
you could try the VA (Veterans Administration) they will have record of things like applications for benifits etc

The US Social Security Administration will try to forward maol in the case of STRONG Humanitarian Need

Military Services Branch, Military Archives Division,
National Archives and Records Administration,
Eigth and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Room 8E,
Washington DC 20408
U.S.A.
Phone 202 523 3223

Here is a heap of Veterans Administration Addresses in the U.S. I have not tried them yet.They had been Photo Copied lots of times so I just hope
they are accurate

ALABAMA Frank D. Wilkes,Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs State Off. Bldg Montgomery, AL 36130 205 261 5077	DELAWARE Reese E. Phillips, Chairman, Veterans Affairs Agency, P.O.Box 185 Milford, DE 19963 302 422 6363	IOWA Keith Baker, Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Camp Dodge Johnston, IA 50131 515 278 9331	MICHIGAN Frank Schmidt Jr., Director, Veterans Trust Fund Dept. of Mgt. & Budget P.O.Box 30026 Lansing MI 48909 517 373 3130
ALASKA Roger K. Graves, Director, Veterans Affairs, Military & Veterans Affairs Dept. 3601 C St., Suite 620 Anchorage, AK 99503-5989 907 249 1241	FLORIDA Michael Hahn, Executive Director, Veterans Affairs Dept of Administration 350 Lesis State Bank Bldg, Tallahassee, FL 32301 904 487 1533	KANSAS Stan Teasley, Executive Director, Veterans Comm. Dept. of Human Resources, 503 Kansas Ave Topeka KS 66603 913 296 3976	MINNESOTA William Gregg, Commissioner, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Bldg. 20 W. 12th St. St. Paul, MN 55155 612 296 2783 http://www.state.mn.us/ebranch/mdva/
ARIZONA Richard L. Countryman, Director Veterans Service Comm. 700 W. Campbell, #17 Phoenix, AZ 85013 602 255 4713	GEORGIA Pete Wheeler, Commissioner Dept. of Veterans Services Veterans Memorial Bldg. Alanta GA 30334 404 656 2300	KENTUCKY Archie O Taylor, Director, Ctr. for Veterans Affairs 600 Federal Bldg, Rm 1365 Louisville KY 40202 502 588 4447	MISSISSIPPI Frank Godwin III, Exucutive Secretary Veterans Affairs Bd. War Memorial Bldg. 120 N. State St. Jackson, MS 39201 601 354 7205
ARKANSAS Grady Brown, Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs 1200 W. Third St. Rm.105 Little Rock, AR 72201 501 371 1707	HAWAII Tai Soon Lee, Councelor, Veterans Affairs Unit Social Services and Housing Dept. 1060 Bishop St., 5th Fl. Honolulul, HI 96813 808 548 5771	LOUISIANA Cleo Yarbrough, Director, Veterans Affairs Comm. Off. of the Governor, Old State Capitol Baton Rouge, LA 70801 504 342 5920	MISSOURI Charles R. Roberts, Director, Div. of Veterans Affairs, Dept . of Public Safety, P.O.Drawer 147, Jefferson City, MO 65102 314 751 3779
CALIFORNIA Jesse Ugalde, Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs 1227 O St. Sacramento, CA 95814 916 445 3111	IDAHO Gary Bermeosolo, Administrator, Division of Veterans Affairs, Dept. of Health and Welfare, P.O.Box 7765 Boise, ID 83707 208 334 5000	MAINE Emilien A. Levesque, Director, Bur. of Veterans Services Defense & Veterans Service Dept. State House Station #33 Augusta, ME 05333 207 622 9331	MONTANA Micheal Wolf, Administrator, Veterans Affairs Div. Social & Rehabilitation Services Dept. 111 Sanders St. Helena, MT 59601 406 444 3014
COLORADO Louis Nardini, Director, Div. of Veterans Affairs, Dept. of Social Services 1575 Sherman St. Denver, CO 80203 303 866 2494	ILLINOIS David Hardwick, Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 208 W. Cook St. Springfield, IL 62706 217 785 4114	MARYLAND John H. Eaton, Executive Director, Md. Veterans Comm. Rm 110, Federal Bldg. 31 Hopkins Plaza, Baltimore, MD 21201 301 962 4700	NEBRASKA Jake Gonzales Jr. Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 301 Centennial Mall S. P.O.Box 95083 Lincoln, NE 68509-5083 402 471 2458
CONNECTICUT Nicholas M. Motto, Commandant, Veterans Home & Hospital Comm. 287 West St. Rocky Hill, CT 06067 203 529 2571	INDIANA Charles M. Vanmatre Jr., Director, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 707 State Off. Bldg. Indianapolis, IN 46204 317 232 3923	MASSACHUSETTS John Halachis, Commisioner, Off of Veterans Services 100 Cambridge St, Rm 1002 Boston, MA 02202 617 727 3570	NEVADA Bob Mayhew, Commissioner, Comm. for Veterans Affairs, 215 E. Liberty St. Reno, NV 89504, 702 789 0155
North Dakota Veterans Affairs P.O.Box 9003 Fargo, ND 58106-9003	South Dakota Veterans Affairs Soldiers & Sailors War Memorial Bldg c/o 500 East Capitol Avenue Pierre, SD 57501-5070

If you contact some of these I don't doubt that you will accumulate even more addesses many of which will be usless with out information or money. I am looking for an ex US Serviceman so I called around a few local Air Bases and spoke to the Historians they gave me many of the ideas I have used.

Well the Internet is great for putting up messages and registering your quest details with any number of organisations. You can go to your search engine like Yahoo or four11 and type in reunion registry or veterans forum etc and get access to all manner of helpful stuff some want money some don't, you can look at Government sites but that's usually all you can do. The thing is a lot of it only serves to make you feel better. By all means use all of these facilities they could pay off but don't stop your own investigations I use the web to look for specific things Military group reunions or people I know might help. The thing to remember (for me anyway) is that my subject will be over 65, so, how many 65 year old Internet users do you know?? The chances are if you've tried all this stuff by now anyway.

I found the email search on four11 good because you can supply a domain ( the bit after the @ ) lets say you want to contact personnel at a military base but have no email address well if they have a Web Page you can get the email domain from the webmasters address. then do a search on four11 for any name in that domain and up pops more email addresses than you can shake a stick at. You can use the Internet to contact people in this way to try to get help, but be polite and brief to start with and don't badger people if they don't respond. Also send one at a time to any given organisation imagine how people would feel finding out that half the organisation is helping you.

Don't direct your search directly to your subject unless you have the information you need to do so. Why? well because one person is a very small target it is better to aim at all the people that your subject my have touched in his/her life. It's like the difference between shooting at one flying bird with a 22 or firing a sawn off shotgin into a flock of them.

And don't forget, if you get the chance to help others try to do so. There are lots of good people out there! these days the only view many of us get of each other is from behind the wheel of a car, a very poor view point in these bussling times. Here's a few sites to get you rolling. Good luck

Reunion Sites, These are good places to find contacts if you are looking for Military People

Veterans Forums and Vet related, These are good to to leave a message or to meet people.

The Salvation Army Family Tracing Service 105-109 Judd Street King's Cross London WC1H 9TS tel 0171-383 2772 fax 0171-388 2964	British Red Cross Tracing and Messages Section International Welfare Department 9 Grosvenor Crescent London SW1X 1EJ]tel 0171 235 5454
Adoptees Liberty Movement Box 154, Washington Bridge Station New York, NY 10033 USA tel 212 581 1568	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints A full list of Family History Centers can be obtained from The Family History Library 35 North West Temple Street Salt Lake City Utah, 84150 tel 801 240 2331

Air Force WorldWide Locator AFPC/MSIMDL 550 C Street W, Suite 50 Randolf Air Force Base TX 78150_4725	Army Worlwide Locator US Army EREC 889 E. 56th St Indianapolis IN 46249_5301	Marine Corps Worlwide Locator Commandment of the Marine Corps HQ, USMC, Code MMSB Washington, DC 20380-1775
Coast Guard Locator G-MPC-S-3, U.S.Coast Guard 2100 2nd Street SW Washington, DC 20593	Navy Worldwide Locator Bureau of Naval Personnel For family members: BUPRS Pers 324D, 2 Navy Annexe Washington, DC 20370_0216	Navy Worldwide Locator Bureau of Naval Personnel For non -family: BUPRS 02116, 2 Navy Annexe Washington, DC 20370-0216

Army/Navy/Airforce Tiimes Locator Service 6883 Commercial Drive Springfield VA 22159-0160	American Legion Magazine 700 N. Pennsylvania St. P.O.Box 1055 Indianapolis IN 46206	Air Force Magazine Bulletin Board 1501 Lee Highway Arlington, VA 22209-1198
The Retired Officer Magazine 201 N.Washington Ave Alexandria, VA 22314	Veterans of Foriegn Wars Magazine 406 West 34th St Suite 523 Kansas City, MO 64111