As a child, I lived in the same neighborhood until I was 10 years old.
I became great friends with a few of the kids living next-door and by the time we were 10, we were all inseparable.
At that time, my dad got a better job in a different state and my family was forced to move.
I was devastated! We vowed to always keep in touch and wrote each other regularly for a few years.
As we grew older, we naturally just began drifting apart.
Soon, I realized twenty years had gone by and I wanted to know whatever happened to my buddies.
I wanted to do a search for these old friends but I didn't know where to start.
The information I had on these friends was pretty limited and I assumed I'd have no luck successfully tracking down even one of them, much less all three of them.
I had the full name for one of them, but only the first names for the other two.
I knew the graduation years for all three of them, but I wasn't certain if they had all continued living in my hometown until they graduated from high school.
What if one (or all) had gotten married? There were just so many variables working against my odds of conducting a successful old friend search.
I wasn't certain how to even go about doing a search like this.
I'm fairly savvy with Internet searches, but this wasn't the kind of information I'd be finding with the use of a regular search engine.
I was already registered with several "reunion" sites but most of these had the same people registered; none of which were my old friends.
After a little research, I discovered there were sites available specifically for the kind of old friend search I wanted to do.
You're often given several options for doing your high school friend search; one of them being http://oldfriendsearch.
com/highschool-friend-search.
htm.
I wanted a site where I could do a search free of charge and I simply needed to register and start looking, using one of the several search options available.
Searches may be done using not only name, but also their graduation year and school.
These additional options made it possible for me to use the limited information I had to not only perform a search, but a successful one at that.
I couldn't believe how easy it was.
Knowing I was able to find my friends without having to pay for it was just a bonus.
I reached them all within the next few days and we have a reunion trip planned for next year!