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Reuniting
This service involves:
We do not help with the following:
If you DO NOT live in AUSTRALIA: If you live in Australia:
If we believe we can help, we will send a detailed application form so you can provide all the information we need. After reviewing the application, if we find there are no legal issues to prevent us from doing the search, we will assign a registration number and the search will begin. We will coordinate the search with our staff around the world and advise you of our findings. The main cost for this service is covered by The Salvation Army. Donations are welcome and a nominal registration fee ($60, $25 for Pensioners) is required. Searches can take a few days or a few years so the service is not able to guarantee a time frame. The service is not geared to look for people who have only recently left home. However, on occasions the service has helped with urgent requests. Crisis cases do occur when family members are being sought because of terminal illness, accident or death. Reconciliation or reunion often brings out intense feelings of completeness and renewal. The service also plays an advocacy role when the people concerned may not know each other or the relationship is strained. The service boasts of a current success rate of more than 75%. All avenues of investigation are strictly confidential and no information will be revealed without the consent of the person being traced. The Family Tracing Service, or as it was known in England for many years, Mrs Booth's Investigations Department, commenced in England in 1885. Poverty was rife in agricultural areas of England and families lived at bare subsistence level. At the same time, London and other cities, with their increasing number of affluent families, offered positions of employment for country girls. As they had never been outside their home town, they became easy prey to undesirables of the day. And so it was within twenty years of the Army's inception, William Booth, the founder, began to receive letters from anxious parents requesting The Salvation Army to assist in tracing the whereabouts of their missing daughters. A department was set up to try and rescue these girls and to re-unite them with their families. In those days, paragraphs were placed in the War Cry asking if anyone know the whereabouts of these girls and other missing people and so commenced many years of special ministry in this area. From that humble beginning, the service now has officers/staff in most western countries where The Salvation Army is established, conducting enquiries regarding missing family members. CONTACT US
The Director
PO Box 4049, Casuarina NT 0811
PO Box 50 Newtown TAS 7008
PO Box 300, Fullarton SA 5063
PO Box 8498, Perth Business Centre WA 6849
P O BOX A435, Sydney South NSW 1232
GPO Box 2210, Brisbane QLD 4001 |
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The Salvation Army Family Tracing Service endeavours to locate family members whose current whereabouts are unknown and who are being sought for the purpose of re-uniting the family.