Another happy ending...
Released
on: August 29, 2008, 9:07 am
Press
Release Author: Tracesmart
Ltd
Industry:
Internet
& Online
Press
Release Summary: If you like happy endings then you will be pleased
to know that Lisa Starret and her father, Thomas Critchley, have
been successfully reunited after 21 years apart. The pair, unified
in conjunction with Tracesmart’s Missing Person campaign,
met for the first time yesterday in Blackpool, where Mrs Starret’s
father now lives.
Press
Release Body: you like happy endings then you will be pleased
to know that Lisa Starret and her father, Thomas Critchley, have
been successfully reunited after 21 years apart. The pair, unified
in conjunction with Tracesmart’s Missing Person campaign,
met for the first time yesterday in Blackpool, where Mrs Starret’s
father now lives.
Mr
Critchley and his daughter were reunited by Louise Hewlett, Tracesmart’s
Public Relations & Trace Co-ordinator, as part of Tracesmart’s
Missing Person campaign which enables people to find
relatives or friends for free in exchange for their story.
Explaining the background behind the reunion Hewlett remarked,
“Lisa contacted Tracesmart looking
to find her father whom she had never met. Her parents had split
up when she was a baby and her mother moved to Belfast –
that was 21 years ago.”
To
aid Hewlett’s search Mrs Starret provided her father’s
approximate age and a last known address, with this Hewlett conducted
an address search using Tracesmart
online – the UK’s most powerful people search engine which
utilises information from datasets such as the electoral roll .Armed with
the information Mrs Starret provided, Hewlett found one positive
result and after verifying Mr Critchley’s identity telephoned
Mrs Starret with the good news. Hewlett commented, “When
I last spoke to Lisa she had travelled to Blackpool with her husband
and children to meet her Dad. I believe they met for the first
time yesterday.” As part of the information available through
Tracesmart’s online people search facility, and via negotiations
with Mr Critchley, Hewlett was able to facilitate the reunion
by providing Mrs Starret with her father’s telephone number.
Tracesmart’s
Missing Person campaign is overseen by Owen Roberts, Tracesmart’s
Communications Manager. On the topic of the campaign and this
latest reunion Roberts commented, “The Missing Person’s
campaign has been a great success for Tracesmart and our reunited
customers. Lisa and her father’s story is another example
of just how easy it can be to track down a lost loved one using
our search facility. The media has been keen to feature our reunion
stories and hopefully it will encourage more people to start searching
for their long lost friends or relatives".
• Tracesmart was founded in 1999 by a group of experienced
people tracing experts and professional genealogists. Over the
years, they have been instrumental in reuniting 1000’s of
families and friends. Tracesmart also has a corporate division
and online resource, Tracesmart Corporate, who supply a diverse
range of consumer data cleansing, identification and tracing tools
to a wide variety of industries.
• Louise Hewlett is a driving force in Tracesmart’s
Missing Person’s campaign and has been tracing people for
2 years. Louise has previously appeared on BBC 1’s Missing
Live programme to discuss tracing and one of her previous successful
reunions.
• Owen Roberts is Tracesmart’s Communications Manager
and has over 25 years in the creative and advertising industries
including 7 years with the BBC. Owen recently joined Tracesmart
with the view of keeping one eye on public relations whilst overseeing
business development projects with the other.
Web
Site: http://tracesmart.co.uk
Contact
Details: Press enquiries:
Adam Smith
Marketing Manager
Direct Line: 02920 474 120
Mobile: 07976 637 091
E-mail: adam@tracesmart.co.uk
Tracesmart
Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Photos
and corporate logo's available on request
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