Searching for People from Your Past?

Marie5656 said:
I have been spending years looking for a friend I was close with in college. She seems to have NO social media or internet presence. All I remember know is the city she was from. Oh well
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I needed to find someone about 10 years ago with this same situation, @Marie5656 . I ended up finding her by looking for people I knew she was close to... siblings and cousins in this case, and they *did* have social media. I wrote to a sister who got the message to her. Do you know sibling names who may have FB?
 
I found out a few years ago that my best friend from my childhood, Ronnie, had died in an automobile accident up in Alaska where he was working. I am still sad as I had wanted to get in contact with him and try to get together, I waited too long...

I busted in (on a 50th reunion) of the 1968 class from the town I grew up in. I had moved following 8th grade as my parents wanted me to go to a larger school. Our move went fine, and I made new friends, but they were never like the friends that I had grown up with. I really enjoyed seeing the people I had grown up with. One guy especially was really good to see. He was the other guy I spent most of my time with when my best Ronnie was not around. Lynn (his name) told me that after I left town that summer of 1964, that he had become best friends with Ronnie, that made since as they both were really good guys.

After I moved, I did go to a larger high school and made lots of good friends. But none were like the kids I grew up with. I still see Lynn at times, and we enjoy recalling our time in the small town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado...not a bad place to grow up in the 1950's...
 
I've looked people up mainly out of curiosity but only reached out to one person. After my divorce I looked up my highschool girlfriend on Facebook, we messaged a few times and seeing that she was divorced we decided to get together and catch up. Kind of a mistake, her life was an absolute train wreck with many of the problems her own doing, long sad story. After spending a couple hours with her I couldn't help but wonder how we had dated for over two years, I'm guessing it's because we didn't spend much time talking.šŸ˜‰
 
If you want to find someone's highschool photo, just do a search in Ancestry.com with their approximate date of birth and city they went to school in. I used this to get photos of most of my cousins for my family tree. But you will need a membership however.
 
As for my old college friend. I tried several sites to find her, with what info I had. She was estranged from her immediate family, for reasons she never went into. Sadly, many sites I have tried are pay sites. And I am not willing to pay.
 
My own experience of looking up old friends, school chums and work associates from the past, has mostly been depressing.
Very little good news in doing that.
 
The one person I never found was my university roommate of four years. Once I found a reference to the death of her husband. Never found that again. There was one reference to his family and her name was not part of the family tree. I have seen their daughter on FB. When she got her doctorate she said nice things about the help from her parents when she was young. Knowing the father had been dead for a long time, my logic was that she was too.
 
I probably would have, had it not been for my almost lifelong friend who has managed to keep track of almost everyone she ever met, a lot of them mutual friends. I was never very good at keeping in touch long term with people I no longer saw so, it amazes me how she has managed to maintain so many friendships over the years.
 
Ancestry has an amazing amount of public records as well as high school yearbooks as already mentioned and they are searchable with very little basic info. At one time, a trial membership in Ancestry gave access for a few days but many local libraries have an Ancestry membership that patrons can use.
 
By the way, if the person you are searching for is female, then you are out of luck since female last names keep changing every time they marry.

Instant Checkmate only works for males.
 
There is one girl I would love to find. I actually think of her rather often. She moved before we go to high school. But I have had absolutely no luck.
 

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