Organising your School Reunion

If you're part of the team organising your school reunion, you're probably all too aware of how difficult it's going to be to track people down - but don't fear, it is possible! You just need to pool your resources and compile the results into what is hopefully a full list of your high school or university classmates. Okay, so that doesn't sound like the easiest thing in the world, but with today's technologies, it's far simpler than you think.



Of course, one of the best ways of getting together the details of your past classmates is to tap into the social web created by your year when you were all at school with each other. The chances are that most people stayed in touch with at least some people from high school, which means there is always going to be a way to contact them. You'll probably find that you can gather the majority of your classmates' details simply by asking others.



But what about those who seem to have disappeared off the map? Your first port of call might be Facebook, which seems to be the social network of choice for everybody and their mother. Facebook is a fantastic tool for finding people and you should be able to find a few of your missing school mates on this excellent site; you might even be able to message them to get their details (and check it's the right person, who knows what all these years will do to a person's looks?).

If Facebook proves to be less than successful you may start to feel like there isn't much hope. What other avenues can you possibly explore that will open up the details of those last few classmates you simply can't track down? Well, even if they've eschewed Facebook and somehow avoided being in the contacts lists of your other high school buddies, there's one other place you can check - the electoral roll. The electoral roll is a database containing all UK citizens who are eligible to vote, and it could help you fill in the gaps. By doing an electoral roll search you could find those missing links quickly and easily - and hopefully with enough time to tell them about the reunion!



It'll be great seeing all your school buddies again and even better if you manage to get everybody to attend - so get searching and start collecting names to ensure the most successful reunion ever.