| Active South-Slavic Missing Persons Databases as of 21 May 1999 | ||
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| Site | go directly |
info. about |
| Albanian Refugees & Relatives Location Project | go | go |
| American Red Cross Displaced Persons Linking Center | closed 5 Sep 99 |
go |
| Association for Democratic Intiatives | go | go |
| ICRC Missing Persons - Bosnia & Herzegovina | closed 5 Sep 99 |
go |
| ICRC Family Links - Kosova | go | |
| Kosovo Family Location Center | go | go |
| Kosovo - Keep in Touch | go | go |
| Kosovo - Suchanzeigen - Datenbank | go | go |
| People Finder Service | go | go |
| Refugee Help Net | go | go |
This page has been designed first of all to help individual searchers.
The Additional information at the end of each table will also be useful to database owners and designers, and to those interested in online missing-persons work in general.
From the above table you can go directly to each database, or you can read the summary information about it collected on this page. If you are new to online people-searching, you will save time and effort if you review the information before going to the individual sites. You can also go to the sites directly from the following tables, or you can come back to the first table once you have decided on how you want to carry out your search.
Additions, updates and changes to this page are much appreciated - Ed Agro
| Name | Albanian Refugees & Relatives Location Project, U.S. |
| Purpose | Database of Kosovo refugees, 1999 |
| Server address | http://WWW.Web-Depot.Com/kosovo (United States) |
| Language(s) | Pages and records in English, Albanian |
| Owner | Michael Davon 617-491-0066 Fax 617-491-0080 Office 888-WB-DEPOT Office 617-491-0033 Home |
| Additional info | Est. Apr. 99, with an initial 6,000
records.
The database is fully searchable. On- or off-line groups having data on refugees: Please contact the owner so that your data can be incorporated into this database. We can work with your systems people to facilitate the data transfer. Service donated to the Albanian community in Eastern Massachusetts by web-depot.com |
| Name | American Red Cross Displaced Persons Linking Center |
| Purpose | For Kosovo refugees |
| Site address | Site closed. The following
links are inoperative as of 5 Sep 99 -
Site info:
http://www.redcross.org/intl/request.html |
| Language(s) | English |
| Owner | |
| Additional info | Enter data only; ARC makes further contact |
| Name | Association for Democratic Initiatives, FYR of Macedonia |
| Purpose | Database of Kosovo refugees, 1999 |
| Server address | http://www.refugjat.org/ |
| Special instructions | Searching: If you find a name, seek
further contact by sending email to ADI at
adi@mol.com.mk, or use the
postal address and phone number below.
Entering Information: Information cannot be entered from the web. |
| Language(s) | Page in Albanian, English; records in Albanian |
| Owner | Association for Democratic
Intiatives, Gostivar, Macedonia Phone: +389 42 22 22 00 B.Jovanoski 61, 91230 Gostivar, Macedonia |
| Additional info | last updated 29/4/99, 68,118 records.
The site is searchable only, with further contact to found persons by email, phone, or postal mail to ADI as described above. Produced for ADI by John West, hosted by OneWorld Online |
| Name | ICRC Missing Persons - Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| Purpose | Set up 1995-96, for refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Server address | Site closed. The following links are inoperative as of 5 Sep 99 - |
| Special instructions | Searching: If you find a name, seek further contact at one of the Red Cross or Red Crescent tracing offices or ICRC delegation listed on the site. |
| Language(s) | Site in English; records in English, Serbocroatian |
| Owner | |
| Additional info | It is not clear how ICRC makes use of this site. Web page last updated Jun 96. ICRC discourages email requests; see site for office addresses. Top ICRC page: http://www.icrc.org/ |
| Name | Kosovo Family Location Center (U.K.) |
| Purpose | For Kosovo refugees |
| Site address | http://www.albania.co.uk/kosova/index.html |
| Language(s) | English, Albanian |
| Owner | |
| Additional info | Enter request for info, get rep. via email.
For more information about the site, try contacting Sponsored by www.albania.co.uk |
| Name | Kosovo - Keep in Touch (U.K.) |
| Purpose | Database and web forum for Kosovo, 1999 |
| Site address | http://www.glaine.net/~kosovo/ |
| Language(s) | Albanian, Dutch, English, French, Spanish |
| Owner | Jamme Thibault |
| Additional info | The site also hosts a multilingual web-based forum |
| Name | Kosovo
- Suchanzeigen - Datenbank (Germany) Kosovo - Search Engine & Database |
| Purpose | For Kosovo refugees |
| Site address | http://kosovo.suchanzeigen.de
(top page) http://195.243.193.85 (database page) |
| Special instructions |
Further contact with found persons via email to kosovo@top3d.de or Redaktion@Suchanzeigen.de |
| Language(s) | Site: German, English, Italian; database entries, all plus Albanian |
| Owners | Bärbel Geiger & Christian Dietrich |
| Additional info | Site contains link to ADI db
A service of Top3D - WWW Design & Beratung |
| Name | PFS (People Finder Service), U.S. |
| Purpose | Originally for refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Server address | http://www.applicom.com/people |
| Special instructions |
Entering new infomation: Be sure to write down and save a password and record number if you intend to update later |
| Language(s) | Site in English; records in English, Serbocroatian |
| Owner | Dubravko Kakarigi |
| Additional info | Est. Jan. 96. This was the first web-based missing-persons
database. Designed primarily for refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovia,
it soon became used by other searchers, and currently about 10%-20% of the
records are of people missing in the war in Bosnia. The input is unrestricted,
and the database has been misused by some as a casual meeting place, sort
of like a chat list. Nonetheless, PFS includes a good database-searching
mechanism, and it is still worth searching through, particularly for people
from Bosnia
PFS has been made possible by by Applied Computing Solutions Inc. |
| Name | Refugee Help Net, The Netherlands |
| Purpose | Database of Kosovo refugees, 1999 |
| Server address | http://www.refugeehelp.net/ |
| Special instructions |
Searching: Must search for a person's name and town, to take advantage of the automatic update feature (see below). |
| Language(s) | Site in English; records in Albanian, English |
| Owner | Willem de Zeeuw |
| Additional info | Automatic update: By selecting this
feature when entering his/her name and former residence, one is notified
by email every time someone else with the same name and village is
registered. All the people (who similarly select the option) with the
same name and village will be notified by email whenever the same name/village
is entered.
Provision to share information with other people-finders. |