Why would someone want to do a free electoral roll search?
The hobby of genealogy or family history has become very popular in the last few years. The number of online resources for tracing your ancestors has increased dramatically. You can now subscribe to Ancestry, FindmyPast and other sites to search census records, lists of births, marriages and deaths, and lots of other information. Most of this family history information is not free and people searching for clues look to living relatives to provide new information. Doing a free electoral roll search seems like an attractive way to start. If you grandmother had a sister, their children would have been cousins but second generations of families often lose touch. As family information such as original birth certificates, family bibles and photographs tend to get split between children when an elderly parent dies, some of this information may now be with your second cousins. Doing a free electoral roll search would be the ideal way to find them and their address, so that you can get in touch
