Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Former Australian Flying Doctor Looks For His Nurse Using Find An Old Friend

Former Australian Flying Doctor looks for his nurse.

There are an amazing variety of reasons for coming to findanoldfriend.co.uk


I quote from his letter:

Dear Robin

I wish to confirm our communication by E mail regarding your efforts to search for a friend of mine whom I have not contacted for 35 years.

Her name is Jill --------- and she was married to John. Jill was a nurse and I last heard she managed a nursing home somewhere in the North of England.

I was 36 when I last saw her, when she flew with me on our Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft in Port Hedland in the north of Western Australia.

I am now 71 and retired, so she is probably around 60.

Her mothers address was, and the last known address I have for her is in Teeside England and I have quite forgotten her maiden name.

Since I am writing my autobiography I would like to include a photo of her with my aircraft, To do this I wish to seek her permission, otherwise I will have to reorganise my books layout.

I would not like her to have it sprung on her by surprise thus opening a legal can of worms.

Something which may help in her identification is she still maintains contact with one ------------ in Western Australia.

I thank you for your endeavours on my behalf etc etc

P.S. The first names are fictitious.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

FindanOldFriend.co.uk Puts In An Extra Hour To Find Your Old Friend

Have you wondered why we had stopped blogging in the past for findanoldfriend.co.uk. The answer is simple and it is just that there is such a demand for these services. For seven years I have been on my keyboard giving a prompt one to one service which is quite often 7 days a week and 8 hours a day.

From now on however I am going to put in an extra hour daily so you can see just how many lives I can change for the better.

Keep them coming

Robin Brown

your webmaster

A Lady In Canada Finds Her Old Friend In The UK From 30 Years Ago

I recently received this email from a lady in Canada, this was my reply and her original email:


Hi Marika

Thank you so much for kind message and I hope you will come here sometime as your friend has a sister and other family who would like to meet you.

Wishing you a long and healthy life Robin


23 Jan 2008

I am Oliver Fonsecas aunt and I would like to thank you immensely for locating Vince for me. I can hardly contain my excitement and feel like a gushing schoolgirl. Vince has already got in touch with me and three decades seem to be slipping away.

Thank you very much for your help. It is much appreciated and I will definitely recommend your services to others WOW!

If I ever visit England I will cetainly drop by to visit you and meet you in person and thank you once again.

Bless you

Regards Marika

Sunday, January 20, 2008

missedfamily.com

As webmaster of Findanoldfriend I clearly want to find everyone for everybody and have succeeded in a high proportion of cases but my heart always goes out to those who cant be found and especially to those who will never be able to find their missing loved ones , friends and family.

There are many reasons for this and here are some of them-------

They are in areas where internet facilities cannot reach them or they simply cant be found because they have specifically taken action not to be found.

They have passed on but records to this effect cannot be reached such as even in the UK there are no records yet of births death and marriages on the internet for Scotland and N Ireland.

What a disgrace this is due to short sighted bureaucracy making it so much harder for people to even access their own family records in those areas.

Sometimes one is unable to find someone due to the large numbers involved with a common name more likely when no middle names can be involved

There are many reasons why some people will never be found unless one is lucky enough to enlist the help of a friend or relative of theirs who knows what has become of them.

It can be a terrible thing for many people not to get a closure on a search.

I HAVE FOUND AND HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT FOR PEOPLE TO TALK TO OTHERS WITH A LIKE PROBLEM ABOUT THEIR SITUATION IS A GREAT HEALER.

Therefore for this reason I have purchased an internet domain www.missedfamily.com to help every one in this frustrating situation.

On this site we will collect together all the unsuccessful searchers and they will be able to share each others stories and give each other emotional help.

I look forward to hearing from you if you are interested in this project and you will even find other ways of carrying on the search from others in like situations .

Please tell me of your interest and contact me on www.findanoldfriend.co.uk

I always have your finding needs at heart.

Kind regards Robin