Finding friends and relatives

How to search for family and friends. 

Electoral register

If you are searching for a friend or relative, you can inspect the full electoral register at the council offices.

However, the electoral register is ordered by polling district, street and house number and not by name so if you do not have an exact address, you can search the open register using online commercial organisations.

Historic electoral registers

We do not hold historic electoral registers for public search. These are available from:

• The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (leicestershire.gov.uk)

Name searches

• 192.com
• BT phone book (thephonebook.bt.com)
• Infobel UK (infobel.co.uk)

Address searches

• Royal Mail address and postcode search (royalmail.com)

Information relating to adoptions

• Adoption Search Reunion (adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk)

Public records

• Births, deaths, marriages and care (GOV.UK)
• The National Archives (nationalarchives.gov.uk)

Armed Forces

• Royal Air Force - contact (raf.mod.uk)
• Lost trails (britishlegion.org.uk)

Other search services

• Look4Them (look4them.org.uk)  - missing people
• Genes Reunited (genesreunited.co.uk) - family history

Last updated: 29/01/2025 16:23