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Since the Labor Day Holiday weekend, there has been an ongoing volunteer effort trying to put together (in one location) a list of the people caught up in the Katrina disaster. It's called the Katrina People Finder Project and their purpose is to help survivors locate others (missing family members, friends etc).

They've been gathering info from several different websites which were each collecting data in various formats as well as from volunteers retyping info from sites too haphazard to be scanned thru computer software.

I know only a little about the project because although I had tried to volunteer as a former computer programmer; I quickly discovered that I was too "out of date" to participate.

However, I think their site/database is operational now with 614,982 records(entries) as of Sep 17, 2005.

Search PeopleFinder Data

Enter a name, phone number, email address, city, zip or neighborhood of the person you are looking for. Powered by the community of volunteers from the Katrina People Finder Project.


Or just go directly to their site which has more options:

         http://www.katrinalist.net/