As had happened in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks , a multitude of sites had been independently gathering lists of survivors or missing-persons requests . This project set up a system for entering data according to a standard format ( PeopleFinder Interchange Format , also known as PFIF ) , and reached out to the other sites gathering this information to encourage them to use the same database and avoid duplicating effort
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Katrina PeopleFinder Project