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People search company offer Father’s Day gift

Tracesmart, the online people search providers, will be joining in the Father’s Day celebrations on 21st June this year, by helping families to find relatives. Tracesmart are offering visitors the chance to win a £100 Marks & Spencer gift card to put towards a reunion party, if they find their missing family member using the Tracesmart database.

Last year, the company ran a hugely successful ‘Missing Person’ campaign, and researchers at Tracesmart were able to reunite more than one hundred individuals. A number of those who contacted Tracesmart for assistance are now in contact with their fathers or children. They will be looking forward to Father’s Day this year, and spending the day together for the first time. Tracesmart’s campaign will aim to raise the profile of online searches and demonstrate how simple people searches can be, as Owen Roberts, Tracesmart’s Communications Manager commented,

“Here at Tracesmart, we realise that some people will need extra encouragement to kick start their search. So we want to offer our full support and assistance to those people who are constantly putting off this important trace, which could change their lives.”

One of the families Tracesmart recently reunited after 30 years apart was Debra and her father Daniel. Debra’s parents were young when they had her and her brother, and must have found it difficult as the marriage dissolved and Debra’s mother took her young family to Scotland. After years of wondering how to find her father, Debra found Tracesmart online. Debra contacted the Missing Person campaign team and asked for help to find her father, who she had not had contact with since she was two years old. She filled out a form, and included all the information she knew about him. The initial people search found no definite results, as her father’s name is not unusual. The researcher decided to find Daniel’s siblings, so a birth search was conducted and a sister, Lucy, was found. It was necessary to perform a further search, using marriage records to find Lucy’s married name. The contact details for Debra’s aunt were then located via an electoral roll search. Debra subsequently wrote a letter to her aunt, and within days she heard a response.

The family have now been reunited and Debra says “I love being able to talk to my Dad now, and he is glad that I found him, so thank you Tracesmart, as I couldn’t have done it without you.”

The Father’s Day campaign kicks off on Thursday 21st of May, with the winner of the £100 Marks and Spencer gift card being chosen on Wednesday 17th June and the result being announced the following day.

Please be aware that the names of the people mentioned in this story have been changed at their request.

About Tracesmart

  • Owen Roberts – has worked in the creative, advertising and communications industries for over 25 years and is the voice of Tracesmart. Heading up the communications team, he raises public awareness of the company through various media driven PR campaigns.
  • Tracesmart Limited – Since the launch of its website in 2004, Tracesmart Limited has established itself as one of the UK’s leading providers of online people tracing tools. www.tracesmart.co.uk combines state of the art search technology with an extensive collection of consumer data, providing one of the most powerful and successful systems to trace people.
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Tracesmart Recently Assisted A Remarkable Trace Involving A Son From Colwyn Bay In Search Of His Long Lost Dad

Michael Taylor had never met his father, David, until they were reunited for the first time last week. The father and son met each other on Michael’s 25th birthday, making the occasion even more special. Michael initially contacted Tracesmart in response to the company’s Missing Person Campaign which has been running since March, and has helped to reunite many other families in time for Christmas.

The campaign has seen a mixture of family circumstances; all involving people looking to find relatives, many with no idea of how to perform an electoral roll search. Tracesmart has a dedicated team of researchers, each working individually on a search, providing excellent support for those hoping to find relatives. Michael had thought about searching for his father for many years, and especially since he recently became a father himself. He had never attempted a people search before and was unaware how to find relatives using the internet, but he was able to provide enough information to the researcher, who in turn found a positive match instantly through Tracesmart’s simple to use people search. Mr Dibben confirmed his details with the researcher, and was overjoyed to hear that Michael was trying to find him. The reunion was made even more extraordinary as Michael and David were found to be living in the same town, only two miles apart! Michael commented “I’m still in shock, I’ve been walking around town all these years, and my Dad may have passed by many times. We now meet up regularly and are planning to spend out first Christmas together, which is going to be fantastic.”

Tracesmart aims to raise awareness of how easy it can be to be reunited with a missing person, and hope that new visitors will log on and try for themselves. Many will be missing a family member or friend this Christmas, which, in a large number of cases can be avoided through an instant people search or address search to check the details are up to date.

“We at Tracesmart are delighted to have helped Michael, and to be involved in reuniting many other families and friends, and especially at this time of year, when Christmas celebrations will highlight the importance of finding those who are missing. We hope to assist even more visitors to find relatives this year and hopefully make this festive season extra special,” added Owen Roberts, Tracesmart’s Communications Manager.

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Tracesmart Continues To Expand Technical Team

November signals the beginning of a new career for some, as Tracesmart announce further expansion of their IT workforce. The technical department, based at their waterfront headquarters in Cardiff Bay, has recruited three new team members as a result of escalating workloads arising from increased demand for their people and name search services.

Tracesmart has continued to invest heavily in their product range following the acquisition of the 2008 Electoral Roll in April, and visitors to the site can now access close to 300 million records. These enhancements have been a resounding success as the website has seen a sharp increase in visitors – prompting the company to expand their technical team. The IT department has recruited two web developers and a software analyst; the primary role of the web developers will be to improve and expand the range of services on offer and assist in the maintenance of existing tracing services; the software analyst will work on the planning and production of specifications for all new products, developing bespoke product ideas for their ever expanding portfolio.

The team is headed by Technical Director, Paul Weathersby, who as well as producing and developing Tracesmart‘s flagship people search facility, has established a committed and extremely competent IT department. Weathersby comments, “We are growing as a company and experiencing an influx of new customers, so we need more IT staff to maintain our high level of service. We are always looking for new ways to enhance our customers experience through value added services that complement our existing product range and to facilitate this it is necessary to expand our technical team.”

Further to developing consumer services, the new recruits will also be working on Tracesmart‘s corporate service suite. The new employees are part of a recruitment drive that has already seen the company double in size in the recent months, with numerous departments continuing to expand their workforce to handle the ever increasing demand for their services.

The growth of the company has been endorsed by Tracesmart’s Managing Director, Michael Trezise, who comments; “The rapid rate of recruitment throughout the last year can be attributed to the continued growth of our key products and services, and heightened media interest. Tracesmart continues to be the leading suppliers of tracing services to consumers and businesses alike; from customers needing a simple address search or a missing person search, to large financial institutions requiring assistance with data cleansing or asset reunification projects; the range of services we provide are endless.”

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People Search Experts Tracesmart Are Teaming Up With Alan Titchmarsh Show In A Campaign To Locate Missing Persons And Reunite Them With Loved Ones

Tracesmart is once again working with programme makers aiming to reunite missing friends and find relatives. The Alan Titchmarsh show, which is produced by Spungold TV, is appealing for people wishing to be reunited with someone in their life, and Tracesmart has been enlisted to help with the search.

The production team is eager to feature emotional or uplifting reunited stories on the show as part of their Christmas programming. The Alan Titchmarsh Show broadcasts on the ITV network in the afternoons, and is presently in its third series. The programme infuses real life stories, celebrity guests with everyday advice, and topical subject matter. The show also features a new debate everyday that is examined and discussed with guests which viewers are encouraged to participate. The Christmas shows will aim to feature some of the families that Tracesmart are able to reunite and also appeals for assistance with traces that may require the help of viewers.

“Tracesmart is regularly contacted by individuals needing help to find relatives or friends, and customers are suprised that through a simple address search using our electoral rollsearch facility they find the missing person is still at the same address,” comments Louise Hewlett, the PR and Trace Co-ordinator at Tracesmart.

Previously, Tracesmart has helped with stories for the hugely successful BBC daytime programme ‘Missing Live’. The series followed the work of the police and the charity Missing People in their efforts to uncover the whereabouts of hundreds of individuals every year. The programme makers also wanted to feature family reunions that had recently taken place, and highlight the difficulties some individuals encounter as they search to find the missing person.

Owen Roberts, Tracesmart’s Communications Manager commented, “Christmas always brings heartwarming stories to our screens and Tracesmart has always helped develop these stories more than most, so we are delighted to assist The Alan Titchmarsh Show. With our powerful people search facility we are confident of being able to reunite people and bring happiness to thousands who have long lost friends or relatives.”

If you would like to be reunited with a missing person and would like to be featured on The Alan Titchmarsh Show please email louise@tracesmart.co.uk

Tracesmart Limited – Since the launch of its website in 2004 Tracesmart Limited has established itself as one of the UK’s leading providers of online people tracing tools.www.tracesmart.co.uk combines state of the art search technology with an extensive collection of consumer data, providing one of the most powerful and successful systems to trace people.

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