Finding lost Sisters
Any advice on finding Sisters who have moved/changed names/changed emails/etc. since the last time we had their contact info updated?
I've already found a good number of the ladies I was looking for through Facebook and MySpace, and a couple more on classmates.com, but outside of that it's very difficult. I don't know much about them, and a few of them have very common names which isn't any help! Is becoming a PI my only option :confused: lol |
I've been on a quest finding lost alums from the active chapters in my district. Facebook has been really helpful, but also a good idea, which I was doing, was to have your list of alum names and email them out to other alums that you already have contact info for. Those alums may have kept in touch with some of your lost alums and they can tell you their email addresses and/or street addresses to.
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I don't know what sorority you're in, but I know that my sorority has an online database of sisters on the Sisters Only section of our national website. You could try searching there.
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We just had a workshop on this at the APO national convention.
Assuming you have the initiation information for the members, you could always ask the women you HAVE found if they happen to know where Sister So-and-So is now. Example. You track down Sister Jane Doe and know she's from the Fall 81 pledge class. You can't find Sister Sarah Smith from the same pledge class. So.... ask Jane Doe! Jane may be able to give you some clues like her husband's name, last known hometown, etc. There are also those free internet phone books (and of course I have forgotten the names of them, but zabasearch may be one). Take a weekend and call people you THINK may be your sisters based on the research you did. (Your sorority database, yearbooks, school alumni database, asking pledge sisters, then using zabasearch) It could be a lot of work, and you might get some people who either are the wrong person or don't want to be contacted. Just be sure to identify yourself FIRST and state up front that you're updating your records and would like to send a newsletter or something. Good luck! |
I'm going to echo what Senusret I said about Zabasearch.
http://www.zabasearch.com/ I also like Yahoo's People Search. http://people.yahoo.com/ |
Try going through your school's alumni office instead of your national HQ. Many people keep their address current through their alma mater even if they don't thru their GLO.
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Thanks for the suggestion though :) |
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Gonna try last known addresses and phone numbers first, then move on to asking people from the same or nearby classes. (Some whole classes are on the list, we're small:)) Thanks everyone for the great advice :cool: |
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