[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Do relatives know how to contact them?

[Cindy Hintikka]

I've found out that sometimes an evacuee will tell me they know where their 
relatives are, and they are already in the database.  But when I ask 
further, "Do they know how to contact you?", they so no.   It is so 
important to ask this and get their contact info (P.O. Box, free phone info, 
email address) into the databases.

I have been told that the intake entry form and the Katrina Safe website are 
just different interfaces to the same database.  But the redcross.org Family 
Registry is different.  I believe they transfer data from the City database 
to redcross one.

But in any event, we should get people to try to put their contact info in 
both places, since it is unknown at the time they go through intake.  If the 
system won't allow them to update their info, ask them to come back in 24 
hours.

Cindy Hintikka

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