Is there a website for hurricane victims to get in touch with their
families?  Does that website allow victims to post their names and
locations so others can find them?

Dear henrietta48-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. Understandably the authorities are encouraging the use of
only a few databases so the lost and missing can consult only one or
two reliable resources instead of the thousands of lists that
sometimes crop up in the wake of such disasters. Here are the most
reliable at the moment:

ICRC
Family News Network of the International Committee of the Red Cross
http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/katrina/locate

MORE UNOFFICIAL, BUT USEFUL SITES

CRAIGS LIST
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/laf/

NOLA.COM
http://www.nola.com/forums/searching/index.ssf?initial=true
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/


NOLA.COM 2
http://nola.adpay.com/adwizard_login.aspx?a=47456369494E50546E4A536F5A4F532B594D4C373931424261366B68697A327A43626E6D776B55666D626C6463334B357364642F774656547A4D483756553152

NOLA (BROWSE)
http://people.nola.com/search.aspx?pid=494E73433963646C516A3965326D585069416A2F64673D3D

KATRINA SURVIVOR LIST
http://www.bergedalen.com/katrina/survived.aspx

NOW PUBLIC
http://www.nowpublic.com/node/17228

There are others but these seem to be the most used at this point.

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 07 Sep 2005 16:53 PDT

Here's another one. You can search for people who are registered at an
official shelter using this one:

Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network 
https://client.css.csc.com/satern/satern.cfm

tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 08 Sep 2005 06:49 PDT

Still more that just recently came about:

FIRSTGOV.GOV
http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml#vgn-find-family-and-friends-government-sources-vgn

tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 09 Sep 2005 17:58 PDT

Finally, what appears to be the mother of all Katrina databases:

All-in-one search for Katrina boards and lists from Yahoo!, The Red
Cross, Nola.com, Gulf Coast News, CNN, MSNBC, Earthlink, Operation
Get-In Touch, Public People Locator, CastPost, Family Messages, and
Gulf Coast Hurricane.

http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp

www.katrina.com is also out there