> [ IMPORTANT. Because this is a moderated newsgroup/list, one of the > things I just can't approve (for liability reasons) is any > specific discussion of how to find a particular living individual. > However, I don't see any risk in a generic discussion of tracing > living individuals. - Mod ] Just a comment from another part of the globe ;-) Where I live, the current addresses of the entire population is available on the web (well, excluding a few homeless individuals with "unknown residence"). If I know the name, ID number (similar to the US SSN number, only more widely used) or the address, I can type that in and get the other two bits of information. This information is of course considered to be "public", and nobody is really concerned about the availability of the information - after all, there are pretty effective privacy protection laws in place to prevent abuse of that information, for example regarding junk mail and so on. A problem like not being able to find the address of someone living in the country just would never arise. Unfortunately something like this would never work in the US, due to lack of legal restrictions. (we have also placed the pretty-much-complete genealogy of every inhabitant of the country on the Web, but that is another issue). frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)