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Family Linking
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This Red Cross Family Links website is one of the largest consolidated Family Links Websites, with the most current and accurate information available for finding missing persons.
Find Friends, Family Members and Employers
(Separate Website)
Sources of help and information hurricane evacuees
By: Firstgov.gov
Help Identify Missing People
(Separate Website)
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to staff a hotline to take reports of missing children, missing adults, and found children. If you are searching for someone who is missing or are caring for a child who is separated from his or her family, please call the Katrina/Rita Missing Persons Hotline at 1-888-544-5475. Click on website link to download names and photos of missing individuals.
By: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Hurricane Katrina Helping Handbook 168 page handbook for individuals, families and small businesses.
By: Morrison & Foerster LLP
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