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Find Lost Friends

Looking for lost friends is like detective work. Take it as a challenge! Here are some tips and one amazing tool to help you find lost CF friends!

Tips:

- Question your parents. If your friend was a military brat, maybe your parents know their parents and where they might be posted. They could help you contact your friend.

- Contact all your friends that you knew at the same time and ask if they have kept in touch!

- If you have your friend’s parents’ names access online phone books or check for telephone books on CD-ROM at your public library. Two good online services in Canada are: www.canada411.com and www.WhitePages.ca.

- Use the Internet. A large number of web sites allow you to search information based on various categories. You could search for "locate people" on your search engine to get you started.

- Use an Internet-based e-mail search. Most search engines have a section that allows you to gain access to the e-mail addresses of anyone in the world.

- Keep trying… Keep looking… Keep trying.

- Just for fun, remember John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. This theory states that everyone on Earth can be connected using six associations or less. It’s hard to believe but supposedly you will always know someone, who knows someone, … etc ( X6) wherever in the world they may be. This simply means that if you keep asking and trying you WILL find out where your friend is!

Now here’s a tool to help find your long-lost friends:

Access the forum. It’s easy to use!

You have two options:

1. Looking for someone: simply post a description of the person you are looking for; or
2. Helping someone find someone: read the postings and if you can help connect 2 CF youth, go ahead, make someone happy! Who knows…maybe someone is looking for you!