Tracing Southend-on-Sea friends and relatives

Tracing Southend friends and relations

We quite often get messages from people who've found our site as they're looking to track down friends, trace former work colleagues, or find relatives from in and around Southend. We also often hear from people looking for help with their Southend-on-Sea Family History research. To help anyone looking for Southenders, here are a few links to try, and some suggestions:

Locating Southenders

BT Directory Enquiries - If they're still local, try the phone book
192.com electoral roll & B4USearch - Try a search on the electoral roll
Friends Reunited - One of the best ways to find schoolfriends and colleagues
Ancestry.co.uk - Mainly aimed at family tree researchers, but useful for old BT phone books, and date/place for birth
UK-Info People Finder - CD of 60 million UK names and addresses
Lookup UK - Powerful lookup engine
Were you at my wedding? - The name says it all...

Family members

We're all curious about our roots - thanks to the power of the Internet, tracing your family tree is easier than ever before, and it's possible to make contacts with family members. Here are a few useful links:

Tracing your family tree - How to start tracing your roots.
Genes Reunited - Make contact with other family members and build your tree online.
Family tree links - A page containing some useful links for tracing ancestors.
Southend Library - Handy for research

Getting more help

Some other suggestions:

Why not post a message asking for help in our Southend forum ? With luck, your message will be found by the search engines, and someone will find your message and help out.
Try contacting either the local papers or the local radio stations to see if they can mention your cause.
If you're looking for old newspaper cuttings, perhaps as part of family tree research, see our Questions Page

Any suggestions for additions to this page? Please contact us
(Sorry, but we can't help to track people down for you)