(12-03-2024, 07:11 PM)Byrd Wrote: If you've ever done genealogy, you know how hard it is to find people unless they're really famous. What's going on is that you don't have the right databases to search and some of the information isn't public.
You could find them if you trawled through the IRS database and knew their social security number. Some of them may have gone by different names in school (my husband uses his middle name, and everyone knows him by that. But you can't find him by that name. Likewise, I do not use my first name... so if you knew that (from my school days), I would have "disappeared."
Women are notoriously difficult to trace simply because we weren't considered "important." So if you knew me in grade school, I have had two marriages (divorced, then remarried) and you could never have traced me. You could find photos of me in school books, but unless you knew how to search and where to search, you couldn't find me.
I did track down my ex-husband, who left very little footprint on the landscape...but I had some very good databases and knew how to search. Most couldn't have found him.
So... I'm thinking you just don't have the right databases.
Hmm maybe. These are people I've found before. No creep. Like I knew their profiles and stuff. They just seem to be *gone*. I dunno. Weird times we are in IMHO.
