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On this page you will find resources to help you find missing people and/or to alert others of your status and location

Contents 1 If you have Internet Access: 2 If you don't have internet access 3 If you're creating a missing & found database 4 For Later - Other Family Reunification Services 5 Regional resources for missing and found 5.1 Texas 2008 6 See also

If you have Internet Access:

• Best: American Red Cross "Safe and Well List" https://disastersafe.redcross.org. DisasterSafe is the most important site; if you only use one site, please use this one, as it's the official national registry.

• Also: "I'm OK in NOLA" Facebook group: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24234703285&ref=share
• Also: National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System from FEMA: https://asd.fema.gov/inter/nefrls/home.htm
• Also: SMS (cell phone text message) "JOIN GUSTAVSAFE" to 40404, then send messages http://gustavtracker.appspot.com/to let people know if you need help or let others know you are safe

If you don't have internet access

• Also: SMS (cell phone text message) "JOIN GUSTAVSAFE" to 40404, then send messages http://gustavtracker.appspot.com/to let people know if you need help or let others know you are safe

If you're creating a missing & found database

Please use the PeopleFinder Interchange Format: http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/PFIF

For Later - Other Family Reunification Services

• FEMA http://www.fema.gov The Federal Emergency Management Agency provides financial and direct services to those affected by a Presidentially declared disaster. Requirements must be met to qualify for help from this program.

• FEMA Family Register and Locator System https://asd.fema.gov/inter/nefrls/home.htm

• FEMA Hurricane Gustav Page http://www.fema.gov/media/multimedia/2008/gustav/index.html

• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children http://www.ncmec.org Serves as the nation's clearing house on issues related to missing and exploited children. Under a US Department of Justice directive, operated a call center during Hurricane Katrina and helped locate and reunify missing children with their families.

• USPS http://www.usps.gov Provides continuing mail service for those displaced by disasters through change of address forms. Submitting a change of address form through the USPS ensures that mail will be redirected to a current address.

• National Next of Kin Registry http://www.nokr.org An organization where the public can archive emergency point of contact information. Emergency agencies access the system when there is a need to locate next of kin in urgent situations.

• Community Voice Mail http://www.cvm.org Provides free personalized phone number with voicemail to people in crisis and transition for job search, housing, healthcare and family contact. Current service in 38 cities via a network of 2,000+ social service agencies.

• Contact Loved Ones http://www.contactlovedones.org Provides a free voice message service, accessible from any phone, to reestablish contact between those affected by a disaster and their loved ones and friends.

Regional resources for missing and found

Texas 2008

• Laura Recovery Center Missing After Hurricane Ike Database, with some photographs, of people missing after Ike.
• Houston Chronicle Database of Ike's Missing
• KTRK Post Hurricane Ike Person Locator The links on the story go to http://ktrk.typepad.com/abc13/locator/index.html
• Houston Chronicle: Two weeks after Ike, more than 400 are still missing

See also