Ondoy missing persons database
Reyna Elena Dot Com is getting a number of reader reaction looking for the whereabouts or any news of either their loved ones, friends and/or family members. As I search online papers, I found this news item from GMA News TV and I believe this will provide some guidance and hopefully answers to some of the questions posted on Reyna Elena that I have no clue whatsoever to respond. I thank GMA News TV for posting this. And so, I am reposting the instructions here to assist some of our readers looking for their loved ones. This is a great project by GMA News TV.
There is now an interactive “missing-persons” database (MPD) being maintained by GMANews.Tv. This resource can help close the information gap between those who are looking for missing persons, and those persons themselves, or people who know their whereabouts and condition.
The MPD works this way:
First, go to the GMANews.Tv website, to its Missing Persons Database page (as for now, this page), and click on the “File a report or inquiry about missing or ‘found’ persons.” A response form will be displayed. Fill in the blanks as accurately as you can.
FILE A REPORT OR INQUIRY ABOUT A MISSING OR ‘FOUND’ PERSON
A drop-down menu will allow you to select from five options; this is required.
* Select choice 1 if you want to merely inquire about people that you’ve lost contact with. This would be particularly helpful to overseas Filipinos worried about their loved ones in Ondoy-affected areas that they haven’t heard from since.
* Select choice 2 if you’ve already made efforts to search a person and they are clearly missing.
* Select choice 3 if you “found” a missing person, and want to inform those looking for them.
* Select choice 4 if you want to inquire about something else.
* Select choice 5 if you want to report about something else.
Then you will be asked for other details such as the current date and time; and the last name, first name, physical description and other known information about the person.
Next, you will be asked about the source of the information, including name of the person filing the report, and cellphone number or email. We require these so we can check the veracity of the report.
You can either skip the last box, or write down any action already done on the case, and the results if any.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE MISSING PERSONS DATABASE.
For now, the resulting MPD will look like an Excel spreadsheet. GMANews.TV will also make the MPD viewable to the public in various other ways.
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[...] PLEASE CLICK HERE: ONDOY MISSING PERSONS DATABASE [...]
any one seen my brother Albert Vargas Geonanga and his family
please contact me at my email add above.
Thank you, Grace
sana ay mahanap na ang mga kaibigan at kamag-anak. *sigh!
Help needed at Payatas. Corpses all over. Lacks media attention. Please repost so others can also take action
i’ve just twitted it gladys.
Plurked and twitted as well.
Spreading! Spreading!
hi reynz–
(hope i got your nick right…)
maraming salamat sa pag-feature ng GMA missing persons database.
it’s very rudimentary right now, but we had to start somewhere and didn’t have the luxury to talk about validation and normalization hoo-hahs.
hopefully, as we go along, we can improve the interface, the underlying database, and the connects with other people and agencies trying to cope with literal and figurative flood and trying to do pretty much the same thing that we try to do.
warmest regards,
–jun verzola
http://www.gmanews.tv
Jun,
That was a great project. Many, many thanks for that one.
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Sorry that i use this tag but i really want to find my brother
Albert Vargas Geonanga who went to Manila to join with his girlfriend
but never return to our home in Iloilo city, Please email me if by chance you meet him.Thank you so much.
help find my tito ALBERT VARGAS GEONANGA and his family..pls..hope your the answer to our prayer..were very hopeless..pls help us..were begging onto your program..thank you very much..