I didn't know you had an account at MeFi! :-) Would you consider posting there about this volunteer effort? The idea is to get people to donate some data entry, to combine the zillions of different missing-people and found-people lists and databases all over the web.

Read about it here: Need volunteers for data entry (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=167). (The project itself is here: People Finder Volunteer (http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer).