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Category:: Organizations - Advocacy Organizations
Description:: It's a quiet but disturbing epidemic. Bodies are piling up in morgues with no family to claim them. Coroners are turning to an unexpected resource for help. Can genealogy and genealogists help solve these Unclaimed Persons cases?

New volunteers, please visit our website http://www.unclaimedpersons.org to learn more.

We ask that you never make contact with a family member, friend or associate (the coroner must make all such contacts) and that you code information (such as names, addresses & birth dates) whenever posting about a living person in order to protect their privacy (pls view any case to see how this is done). We also ask that you never share information from this group elsewhere (e.g., Rootsweb and other genealogical groups). This is out of respect for the privacy of the deceased and their next of kin. Thanks!

500 volunteers as of February 17, 2009! Thank you all!

See http://www.rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences.php?bctid=1782539533 to watch an interview with one of the Unclaimed Persons founders (first half of the video). (read less)
It's a quiet but disturbing epidemic. Bodies are piling up in morgues with no family to claim them. Coroners are turning to an unexpected resource for help. Can genealogy and genealogists help solve these Unclaimed Persons cases?

New volunteers, please visit our website http://www.unclaimedpersons.org to learn more.

We ask that you never make contact with a family member, friend or associate (the coroner must make all such contacts) and that you code information (such as names,... (read more)
Privacy Type:: Open: All content is public.