Ray K schreef: > HankC wrote: >> Look in the City Directories for the last city you know she lived in. >> They are available at the local library. >> In the year she is no longer at the same address, that's the year she >> was likely married. > > Hank, Remember that these are high school grads that were living with > their parents, so the listings would be in the parents' names. > >> Libraries also have a marriage index but I don't know if there is a >> blackout period. In RI, the index is published by the groom's, as well >> as the bride's name. > > That an excellent approach I hadn't considered. I'll check with my > library about that. If you've read my other responses, you'll note that > N.J. has some strict privacy statutes that deal with vital records of > all kinds - birth, marriage, death - even if those events were > publicized in newspapers when then occurred and should/could be > considered public. > >> For guys, also check the local property tax assessor. In my state, >> property tax records are avail on line. Sometimes, they are searchable >> by the Lname of the owner. You have to do a little digging around the >> town site because the local officials don't make it easy to find. > > That's a good idea that I had followed when I was preparing for the 50th > reunion that took place in August 2006. In N.J., there is one website > that lets me search by county (we have 21), and all the towns within a > county, but not the entire state at once. (N.J. has 566 municipalities.) > > There are 20 guys I haven't located, and since they aren't listed in the > Social Security Death Index, most likely they are alive. 66% of the 263 > graduates I located still live in N.J. So 66% of 20 means 14 of the > missing guys are likely to still be in N.J. (The second most popular > state is Florida.) I don't know what percent of the classmates own > rather than rent, but I recheck the tax records for these guys again. > That could mean as many as 21 searches for 14 guys, or 294 searches! Of > course, I would search the most likely and most populated counties first. > >> Don't forget to google their names. If they bought a house, went to >> court, had a child, joined an association, got a promotion, were a >> witness at someone else's wedding, etc, there may be a Google entry. > > I've googled them all. > >> Try other search engines too; I've found stuff on AltaVista which >> Google didn't find. > > Good point. I rarely venture beyond google, since the others seem > relatively limited. But it's easy enough to run the 20 guys through > AltaVista. > > Thanks, Hank. > > Ray > Ray, Have you tryed Footnote.com. John.