Guides
Honest, practical guides for the searches people actually make. Each one says plainly what we can help with and what we can't.
Finding family
Siblings split between placements often grow up with the same handful of images and none of the paperwork. That is not a dead end. What you both remember about the same house, the same street and the same year is evidence that no file holds.
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Plenty of people begin with nothing more than a city, a year and something an adult once let slip. That is a starting point, not a failure. Write it exactly as you were told it, including the parts you doubt.
Read the guideFinding people
Search engines need a surname. People don't. If someone would recognise the moment, the moment is the identifier — and that's what to write.
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Most school friendships don't end, they just stop. Years later the awkward part isn't finding the person — it's the opening line. Starting from a shared memory removes both problems.
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Hospitals produce some of the most intense short relationships people ever have, and almost no way to follow up. Staff can't give out details, and patients rarely exchange them. A memory is often all that's left.
Read the guideFinding people
These searches succeed more often than people expect, because the other person usually remembers it too — a small act at the right moment tends to stay with both people.
Read the guideIdentity, photo and contact stay sealed on both sides until each of you accepts.
We hold no birth, adoption or care files and buy no data. Only what people choose to write.
Turn it on and you stop appearing to anyone, in both directions, for good.
There is nothing to browse about you — only the memory you chose to post.
Posting a memory is free and takes a few minutes.