How does the Family Links website help find missing persons?
If you’re looking for a missing person, you register the name of the missing person, together with your own contact details. If your relatives are looking for you, you register your name and say how your relatives can contact you. You can use the site whether you’re inside or outside the area affected by the disaster or conflict. The ICRC and National Societies will try to match up: • people looking for a missing person with • missing people who have registered on the site and will contact people when necessary and possible. If you don’t have Internet access, Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and ICRC delegations around the world can help you post this information. • Contact details for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies • Contact details for ICRC delegations and offices When we create a missing persons page for a particular crisis, we use the language or languages spoken in the area affected. For example, the page for the Haiti earthquake was in Creole, English, French and Spanis
