Help! Are there any Aussies out there?

[its_noodles]

Hello everyone,

I wonder if there are any good Aussies out there who could help...

I am moving to Bath and I am in the process of clearing out some of my old stuff. I found my old diary dated back to 1986 when I was a young boy visiting Australia. I still remember the very many people who were extremely kind to me. It's amazing to read all the stuff again for the first time in 27 years...

I would like to get in touch with these kind people and to thank them. However, I have a funny feeling that some of them may have moved and others would have retired.

How do I go about finding these good people? I know I can always write to the old addresses I have on my diary, but failing that, what do I do? I just google some of the names and addresses and the results mean very little...

I only want to find three people/addresses (one in Brisbane and 2 in Melbourne). Any thoughts?

 

[Honey08]

When my dad moved house he found a letter from someone who used to live in the house and had moved to Australia. It was decades old. He got in touch with a newspaper in Melbourne (think it was Melbourne), and the newspaper did a search for them and actually found them. Dad sails a lot, so he actually met up with the people while over there, and the newspaper did a story on it. Might be worth googling local newspapers?

 

[its_noodles]

honey08, thanks, i was actually trying to look them up in some telephone directories. but then again the phone directories (like the UK) are very much for businesses rather than individuals...

 

[nutsaboutbarney]

try white pages.com.au - residential telephone directory for the names.

Try the original suburbs and then widen search in case still in Melbourne/Brisbane but moved within that area