Monday, December 21, 2009
Another Happy Ending...
If you like blessed endings again you will be admiring to apperceive that Lisa Starret and her father, Thomas Critchley, accept been auspiciously reunited afterwards 21 years apart. The pair, unified in affiliation with Tracesmart’s Missing Person campaign, met for the aboriginal time bygone in Blackpool, area Mrs Starret’s ancestor now lives.
Mr Critchley and his babe were reunited by Louise Hewlett, Tracesmart’s Public Relations & Trace Co-ordinator, as allotment of Tracesmart’s Missing Person attack which enables humans to find relatives or accompany for chargeless in barter for their story. Explaining the accomplishments abaft the alliance Hewlett remarked, “Lisa contacted Tracesmart analytic to acquisition her ancestor whom she had never met. Her parents had breach up if she was a baby and her mother confused to Belfast – that was 21 years ago.”
To aid Hewlett’s seek Mrs Starret provided her father’s almost age and a endure accepted address, with this Hewlett conducted an address search application Tracesmart online – the UK’s a lot of able people search engine which utilises advice from datasets such as the electoral roll . Armed with the advice Mrs Starret provided, Hewlett begin one absolute aftereffect and afterwards acceptance Mr Critchley’s character telephoned Mrs Starret with the acceptable news. Hewlett commented, “When I endure batten to Lisa she had travelled to Blackpool with her bedmate and accouchement to accommodated her Dad. I accept they met for the aboriginal time yesterday.” As allotment of the advice accessible through Tracesmart’s online humans seek facility, and via negotiations with Mr Critchley, Hewlett was able to facilitate the alliance by accouterment Mrs Starret with her father’s blast number.
Tracesmart’s Missing Person attack is overseen by Owen Roberts, Tracesmart’s Communications Manager. On the affair of the attack and this latest alliance Roberts commented, “The Missing Person’s attack has been a abundant success for Tracesmart and our reunited customers. Lisa and her father’s adventure is addition archetype of just how simple it can be to clue down a absent admired one application our seek facility. The media has been agog to affection our alliance belief and hopefully it will animate added humans to alpha analytic for their continued absent accompany or relatives".
Notes to editors
•Tracesmart was founded in 1999 by a accumulation of accomplished humans archetype experts and able genealogists. Over the years, they accept been active in reuniting 1000’s of families and friends. Tracesmart aswell has a accumulated analysis and online resource, Tracesmart Corporate, who accumulation a assorted ambit of chump abstracts cleansing, identification and archetype accoutrement to a advanced array of industries.
•Louise Hewlett is a active force in Tracesmart’s Missing Person’s attack and has been archetype humans for 2 years. Louise has ahead appeared on BBC 1’s Missing Live programme to altercate archetype and one of her antecedent acknowledged reunions.
•Owen Roberts is Tracesmart’s Communications Manager and has over 25 years in the artistic and bartering industries including 7 years with the BBC. Owen afresh abutting Tracesmart with the appearance of befitting one eye on accessible relations whilst administering business development projects with the other.
Press enquiries:
Adam Smith
Marketing Manager
Direct Line: 02920 474 120
Mobile: 07976 637 091
E-mail: adam@tracesmart.co.uk
Tracesmart Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Photos and accumulated logo’s accessible on request
Leading People Search Facility to Hire New Technologists
Tracesmart has connected to advance heavily in the casework they accommodate to both their chump and accumulated customers, afterwards accepting the 2008 Electoral Roll in April, visitors to the chump website can now acceptance abutting to 300 actor records. The IT administration advance the acumen of uploading this abundance of abstracts and the continuing access in articles and casework which aim to enhance their visitors’ experience. The aggregation are bartering positions for 2 web developers and a systems analyst, who will plan alongside the able-bodied accustomed centralized abstruse team. The primary role of the web developers will be to advance and aggrandize the ambit of casework on action and abetment in the aliment of absolute archetype services. The systems analyst will baby-sit the planning and assembly of blueprint for new products, and plan carefully with the web developers to transform bespoke account into casework for the company’s all-encompassing applicant base.
The aggregation is headed by Technical Director, Paul Weathersby, who was cardinal in bearing and developing Tracesmart's flagship people search, and has formed a committed and accomplished IT department. Weathersby comments, 'We are growing as a aggregation and experiencing an arrival of new customers, so we charge added abutment agents to advance our top akin of service. We are consistently analytic for new means to enhance our barter acquaintance through amount added casework that accompaniment our absolute artefact ambit and by accretion the IT aggregation we will abide to do so.'
Further to developing chump services, the new recruits will aswell plan on Tracesmart's accumulated account suite. The accession of 3 new advisers is allotment of a application drive that has already apparent the aggregation bifold in admeasurement in the endure budgetary year, with the sales and trace departments continuing to aggrandize their workforce to handle the added appeal for their clothier fabricated services.
The advance of the aggregation has been accustomed by Tracesmart's Managing Director, Michael Trezise, who comments, "The accelerated amount of application throughout the endure year can be attributed to the connected advance of our key articles and services. Tracesmart continues to be the arch website for humans who are aggravating to find relatives they accept absent acquaintance with, analytic for a missing person or artlessly ambition to conduct an address search to affirm they accept the appropriate acquaintance data for an old friend!"
Notes to editors
www.tracesmart.co.uk is the UK’s arch humans seek engine. Developed by a aggregation of awful accomplished tracers and apple chic IT professionals, the website has helped bags of humans accumulate with old accompany and absent admired ones.
Paul Weathersby is the active force abaft the development and assembly of Tracesmart's apartment of web-based services, and manages and directs their accomplished IT team.
Michael Trezise is the architect and Managing Director of Tracesmart. With over 25 years of archetype acquaintance his unrivalled ability provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
Press enquiries:
Contact Details
Owen Roberts
Communications Manager
Direct Line: 02920 474 114
Mobile: 07775 700 480
E-mail: owen.roberts@tracesmart.co.uk
Tracesmart Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Photos and accumulated logo’s accessible on request
The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Tracesmart Need You
The assembly aggregation is acquisitive to affection affecting or adorning reunited belief on the appearance as allotment of their Christmas programming. The Alan Titchmarsh Show broadcasts on the ITV arrangement in the afternoons, and is anon in its third series. The programme infuses absolute activity stories, celebrity guests with accustomed advice, and contemporary accountable matter. The appearance aswell appearance a new agitation accustomed that is advised and discussed with guests which admirers are encouraged to participate. The Christmas shows will aim to affection some of the families that Tracesmart are able to accumulate and aswell appeals for abetment with traces that may crave the advice of viewers.
"Tracesmart is consistently contacted by individuals defective advice to acquisition ancestors or friends, and barter are suprised that through a simple address search application our electoral roll seek ability they acquisition the missing being is still at the aforementioned address," comments Louise Hewlett, the PR and Trace Co-ordinator at Tracesmart.
Previously, Tracesmart has helped with belief for the badly acknowledged BBC daytime programme 'Missing Live'. The alternation followed the plan of the badge and the alms Missing People in their efforts to bare the abode of hundreds of individuals every year. The programme makers aswell capital to affection ancestors reunions that had afresh taken place, and highlight the difficulties some individuals appointment as they seek to acquisition the missing person.
Owen Roberts, Tracesmart's Communications Manager commented, "Christmas consistently brings heartwarming belief to our screens and Tracesmart has consistently helped advance these belief added than most, so we are captivated to abetment The Alan Titchmarsh Show. With our able people search ability we are assured of accepting able to accumulate humans and accompany beatitude to bags who accept continued absent accompany or relatives."
If you would like to be reunited with a missing being and would like to be featured on The Alan Titchmarsh Show amuse email louise@tracesmart.co.uk
Tracesmart Limited - Since the barrage of its website in 2004 Tracesmart Limited has accustomed itself as one of the UK's arch providers of online humans archetype tools. www.tracesmart.co.uk combines accompaniment of the art seek technology with an all-encompassing accumulating of chump data, accouterment one of the a lot of able and acknowledged systems to trace people.
Louise Hewlett is a active force in Tracesmart's Missing Person's attack and has been archetype humans for over 2 years. Louise has ahead appeared on BBC 1's Missing Live programme to altercate archetype and one of her antecedent acknowledged reunions.
Owen Roberts has formed in the creative, bartering and communications industries for over 25 years and is the articulation of Tracesmart. Heading up the communications team, he raises the accessible acquaintance of the aggregation through assorted media apprenticed PR campaigns.
Contact: Owen Roberts – Communications Manager
TRACESMART Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 02920 474 114
Mobile: 07775 700 480
Email: owenr@tracesmart.co.uk
Photo's accessible on request.
Tracesmart accompany OSIS in-House
Historically no individual organisation was amenable for accumulating all UK blast numbers as although BT was the capital antecedent of blast amount information, they did not authority added telecommunication companies blast numbers. As such in 1999 a subdivision of BT, The Directory Solutions Unit (DSU) was formed to act as an absolute anatomy with their prime assignment accepting to adduce blast amount advice from several sources, including BT, Cable Companies and Mobile Phone providers. Today the DSU administrate OSIS and accommodate licensees with a circadian book absolute amid 30,000-100,000 added, deleted or adapted UK blast numbers.
The circadian accumulation of abstracts from OSIS agency Tracesmart's Customers will see a added access in arrangement achievement as Paul Weathersby, Technical Director at Tracesmart, explains "Following a absolute abstracts aegis audit, area we thoroughly approved how acutely athletic and airy our centralized abstracts aegis measures are, we accept now been accepted absolute acceptance to the OSIS data. Previously we relied on a third affair supplier for the abstracts but now that we accept it in abode our barter can conduct faster blast attending ups and the arrangement as a accomplished runs added efficiently."
Obtaining accurate blast numbers is an capital allotment of any anatomy of tracing, whether it be an asset reunification activity aiming to accumulate unclaimed assets with their applicable buyer or an exercise to locate absconded debtors; accepting burning acceptance to the accordant blast amount allows the tracer to facilitate burning contact. Telephone numbers are supplied via the company's tracing, character analysis and data cleansing services.
Maximising achievement is a key allotment of Tracesmart's charge to its applicant abject as Mike Trezise, Managing Director of Tracesmart, commented, "I apperceive actual how utilising accurate abstracts is ascendant for success and as such Tracesmart consistently aims to accumulation its barter with accurate, instantly accessible abstracts in adjustment to ensure they get the after-effects they need. As a aggregation we are committed to consistently advance and convalescent our account offerings and new abstracts accretion is a key allotment of this action – we will consistently strive to enhance the chump acquaintance through the accouterment of absolute data."
Notes to Editors
Tracesmart - was formed in 1999 and accumulation a assorted ambit of chump abstracts cleansing, character analysis and archetype accoutrement to a advanced array of industries. Their applicant abject ranges from SME to Blue Chip, who are all recipients of bespoke solutions, complete about their specific needs.
Paul Weathersby – Tracesmart's Technical Director, Weathersby is the active force abaft the development and assembly of Tracesmart's apartment of web-based services, and manages and directs their accomplished IT team.
Michael Trezise - is the architect and Managing Director of Tracesmart. With over 25 years archetype and artifice appraisal acquaintance his unrivalled ability provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
Contact: Adam Smith – Marketing Manager
Tracesmart Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 02920 474 120
Mobile: 07976 637 091
Email: adam@tracesmart.co.uk
Images accessible on request.
Tracesmart Brings Directory Enquires Database in House
Previously British Telecomm was the alone organisation to authority a database of buzz listings, with the barring of added accountant buzz operators. This meant that abounding residential numbers were accepting larboard out, and as a aftereffect it was absitively that changes were needed. In 1999 a subdivision of BT, The Directory Solutions Unit (DSU) was set up as an absolute anatomy to baby-sit the accumulating of listings from abundant sources including BT, cable companies and adaptable buzz providers. To date the DSU baby-sit OSIS and accommodate database licence holders a circadian book amend of amid 30,000-100,000 new, deleted or adapted records.
This circadian amend of OSIS advice agency that the Tracesmart arrangement will accept bigger achievement – as such blast listings offered to Tracesmart's barter accustomed out an address search will be guaranteed. Paul Weathersby, Tracesmart's Technical Director commented, 'Following an all-embracing aegis audit, which ensured our systems were able and defended abundant to authority this blazon of data, we are captivated to now be accepted absolute acceptance to the OSIS data.'
Obtaining accurate blast numbers if accustomed out a people search is an capital apparatus that allows for burning advice with absent accompany or ancestors – accordingly the OSIS abstracts offers Tracesmart's barter bigger amount for money as they will not accept to decay time or money application anachronous acquaintance details.
Increasing achievement is a key allotment of Tracesmart's charge to its chump abject as Mike Trezise, Managing Director of Tracesmart, commented,"I apperceive actual how utilising accurate abstracts is ascendant for auspiciously award humans and as such Tracesmart consistently aims to accumulation its barter with accurate, instantly accessible abstracts in adjustment to ensure they get the after-effects they charge if aggravating to find relatives acquisition ancestors or friends. As a aggregation we are committed to consistently advance and convalescent our account offerings and new abstracts accretion is a key allotment of this process.'
Notes to Editors
Tracesmart Limited - Since the barrage of its website in 2004 Tracesmart Limited has accustomed itself as one of the UK's arch providers of online humans archetype tools. www.tracesmart.co.uk combines accompaniment of the art seek technology with an all-encompassing accumulating of chump data, accouterment one of the a lot of able and acknowledged systems to trace people.
Paul Weathersby – Tracesmart's Technical Director, Weathersby is the active force abaft the development and assembly of Tracesmart's apartment of web-based services, and manages and directs their accomplished IT team.p>
Michael Trezise - is the architect and Managing Director of Tracesmart. With over 25 years archetype and artifice appraisal acquaintance his unrivalled ability provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
Contact: Owen Roberts – Communications Manager
TRACESMART Ltd
Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 02920 474 114
Mobile: 07775 700 480
Email: owenr@tracesmart.co.uk
Leading Online People Search Provider Opens Up Names Database
As bazaar arch suppliers of online electoral cycle search ability services, Tracesmart accept the requirements of its barter and visitors to their site. In abounding cases, users aggravating to trace individuals will accept a bound aggregate advice apropos to the trace accountable and/or incorrect details. By aperture up their name database to the accepted public, Tracesmart are able to accommodate a aggregation of accessible variations of the advice provided such as altered spellings and agnate names – through this account users will be able to search people even if they do not accept the exact information, and save time in the process.
"Following several discussions surrounding the chump journey, we fabricated the adventurous accommodation to accessible up our names database with a appearance to optimising our barter archetype activity. Our centralized programmers and web developers accept been alive agilely to accomplish this activity work, testing the arrangement anxiously and brainstorm it will be abide in the abreast future" Paul Weathersby, Technical Director explains.
In abounding cases humans who are analytic for a missing person will artlessly key the capacity name into a seek engine in the achievement of award a little bit of advice about them and their whereabouts. Opening up the names database will advice these users who are not even on the Tracesmart website as there is a able achievability that the page apropos to the name the alone is analytic for will appear in seek results; this in about-face could advance them to the Tracesmart website and accompany them one footfall afterpiece to analysis the person.
Tracesmart's managing director, Mike Trezise, is consistently gluttonous new means to advice his barter optimise their archetype "It has become axiomatic to us that whilst some users are auspiciously commutual traces with one humans search, others accept to use abounding credits to acquisition the aftereffect they need. Offering up acknowledging advice at no added allegation - with a appearance to allowance barter locate individuals quicker - demonstrates our charge to accouterment the best amount for money humans archetype apparatus available."
Tracesmart Limited - Since the barrage of its website in 2004 Tracesmart Limited has accustomed itself as one of the UK's arch providers of online humans archetype tools. www.tracesmart.co.uk combines accompaniment of the art seek technology with an all-encompassing accumulating of chump data, accouterment one of the a lot of able and acknowledged systems to trace people.
Paul Weathersby – Tracesmart's Technical Director, Weathersby is the active force abaft the development and assembly of Tracesmart's apartment of web-based services, and manages and directs their accomplished IT team.
Michael Trezise - is the architect and Managing Director of Tracesmart. With over 25 years archetype and artifice appraisal acquaintance his unrivalled ability provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
Contact: Owen Roberts – Communications Manager
TRACESMART Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 02920 474 114
Mobile: 07775 700 480
Email: owen.roberts@tracesmart.co.uk
Leading Identity Checks Provider Enhances Customer Experience
Tracesmart, acclaimed for allowance organisations conduct identity checks for know your customer purposes, accept appear that they are advancing to backpack their ID account - Smart ID Plus. The account will now be accessible anon from the company’s arch website Tracesmart Corporate. The alteration signals the alpha of a beyond activity which aims to centralise all of the company’s accepted and approaching online account offerings in adjustment to accumulate and advance the chump experience.
Utilised in both anti-money laundering and anti-fraud exercises, the account will lose its Smart ID Plus moniker and artlessly be accepted as ID, allotment of the Tracesmart Corporate ambit which includes the awful admired data cleansing service. Users of the ID account will artlessly log in to the Tracesmart Corporate website area they will be greeted by the new axial user interface. As able-bodied as acceptance to the ID apparatus the interface will aswell accommodate acceptance to added Tracesmart Corporate casework and a array of added functions including acceptance history and reports, arrangement user guides and the advantage to acquirement credits for their subscribed services.
Management of the abstruse about-face is accepting led by Paul Weathersby, Technical Director for Tracesmart, who has been planning the move for some time "Ensuring that our barter accept an able and agreeable acquaintance if application our systems is one of our primary concerns. As such we [Tracesmart’s abstruse team] accept been advancing to centralise our online account apartment for some time – porting the ID casework above to the Tracesmart Corporate website is the aboriginal footfall in this process. The new interface will be abide anon and months of alertness will ensure a bland alteration with no abrogating appulse on the user acquaintance or account functionality."
The centralisation of Tracesmart’s online account apartment will aftereffect in a individual 'shop front' and acceptance point for users already they are logged in. For example, from this hub Tracesmart audience will be able to trace people one minute, again seamlessly about-face to conduct character checks the next. It is advancing that accepting the ambit of casework side-by-side will accession absorption in the accomplished of the Tracesmart range.
Commenting on the approaching bigger and centralised online account apartment Mike Trezise, Managing Director at Tracesmart, addendum the appulse it will accept for their customers, "The axial account aperture will acquiesce for bigger chump acquaintance and account – a amount action abaft the majority of our abstruse enhancements. All of our online casework will be accessible from this individual acceptance point, appropriately ensuring our barter break abreast with our portfolio and abide absolutely abreast about the casework accessible to them."
Notes to editors
Tracesmart was formed in 1999 and accumulation a assorted ambit of chump abstracts cleansing, character analysis and archetype accoutrement to a advanced array of industries. Their applicant abject ranges from SME to Blue Chip, who are all recipients of bespoke solutions, complete about their specific needs.
Paul Weathersby – Tracesmart’s Technical Director, Weathersby is the active force abaft the development and assembly of Tracesmart's apartment of web-based services, and manages and directs their accomplished IT team.
Michael Trezise - is the architect and Managing Director of Tracesmart. With over 25 years archetype and artifice appraisal acquaintance his unrivalled ability provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
Contact: Adam Smith – Marketing Manager
Tracesmart Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 02920 474 120
Mobile: 07976 637 091
Email: adam@tracesmart.co.uk
Images accessible on request.
Existence Service to Eradicate Impersonation of the Deceased Fraud
IOD is a anatomy of character artifice - it is estimated by the Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee, that character artifice costs the UK abridgement £1.7 billion annually. Whilst IOD artifice has historically been harder to accouterment due to the abridgement of afterlife annal accepting fabricated available, contempo changes in legislation accept accustomed the UK General Register Offices (GRO) to absolution afterlife allotment advice (DRI) to bartering bodies with the aim of preventing fraud. It is this move that has enabled Tracesmart to advance their apartment of casework which will accouterment IOD artifice arch on.
Combining all-embracing mortality screening and address verification, the account allows users to ascertain whether an alone is breath and if they abide at their accustomed address. Paul Weathersby, Technical Director at Tracesmart, commented on the abstracts which drives these checks.
"The bloodshed screening aspect of our Existence casework draws aloft the GRO’s DRI abstracts and the address verifier calls aloft a array of chump datasets including celebrated Electoral Rolls, arch gone abroad files and BT OSIS amidst others. The aggregate of these checks allows us to confidently analyze asleep individuals and gone aways."
The Existence apartment comprises three casework with which audience can conduct existence checks. Existence Search is an online ability which can be acclimated to conduct individual ad-hoc checks; Existence Batch is a accumulation screening account area assorted bodies can be absolute and the third, and possibly a lot of cogent service, is Existence Alert - an aboriginal admonishing arrangement that notifies users of mortalities at the ancient accessible opportunity.
Tracesmart has continued provided accoutrement for administering identity checks and has a able history in the acreage of artifice prevention. The aggregate of this acquaintance and acceptance to DRI will accredit the Existence casework to bigger advice put an end to IOD fraud. Mike Trezise, Managing Director at Tracesmart, has already apparent a top aggregate of absorption in the product.
"Prior to barrage we approached several key audience in the alimony and banking sectors to barometer bazaar absorption in the product. As we suspected, the appeal is a lot of absolutely there and we already accept arresting pensions administrators and ample schemes utilising the arrangement to alter certificate of existence exercises, and abounding in the banking area are employing it as allotment of their know your customer checks. Preventing IOD artifice will save businesses ample amounts of money and assure consumers from both budgetary and affecting harm."
Notes to Editors
Impersonation of the Deceased (IOD) Fraud – This anatomy of artifice occurs if the character of a asleep alone is affected and acclimated for counterfeit purposes.
Tracesmart Ltd – Formed in 1999, Tracesmart accumulation a ambit of artifice blockage casework via their cyberbanking character analysis and abstracts cleansing tools. Prominent in the pensions, legal, banking and retail sectors, their artifice blockage systems are relied aloft by businesses alignment from SME to Blue Chip.
Paul Weathersby – Tracesmart’s Technical Director, Weathersby is the active force abaft the development and assembly of Tracesmart's apartment of web-based services, and manages and directs their accomplished IT team.
Mike Trezise – Founder and Managing Director of Tracesmart, Trezise has all-encompassing acquaintance in artifice appraisal and prevention, acquaintance which provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
Contact: Adam Smith – Marketing Manager
Tracesmart Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 029 2047 4120
Mobile: 07976 637091
Email: adam@tracesmart.co.uk
Photos/Images Available on Request.