| Family Tracing Service & Missing Persons back to 'Family History'
The Heritage Centre does not trace living relatives or missing persons. This work is done by the Family Tracing Service.
The Salvation Army's Family Tracing Service exists for the purpose of trying to restore (or to sustain) family relationships, by locating relatives who for various reasons have become out of touch. Loss of contact may have taken place within the past few days, or many years ago. It may have been a deliberate break or otherwise.The department is sometimes able to help also in other matters to do with identity and relationships. Successful investigations often bring a sense of 'belonging' to those who have never known close blood-ties - restoring in them new feelings of dignity, of self-worth and of life-purpose.
The work was established in 1885, when the Founder of The Salvation Army recognized that families were becoming fragmented as a result of social and economic pressures.Today, the Family Tracing Service has close links with colleagues in many of the 100 countries where The Salvation Army is operating. In addition, requests to trace relatives arrive regularly from countries where the Army has never been at work.
For further information link to the The Family Tracing Service website
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