Somebody is always seeking

For job seekers or those interested in industry, a search engine is available just for American companies. The Web site is produced by SearchEngines.com and is located at www.emvoy.com.

If you don't have a specific company in mind, the search engine allows you to navigate through categories.

For example, I went to the category of industrial fabrication and clicked on "metal fabrication." A long list comes up, from which I selected "aluminum castings." I got 182 hits.

The site even has a link to its blog, where people can post comments about the return of the MG Rover, the British roadster popular in the U.S. in the 1980s, infamous for its shop record, soon to be manufactured again in China and at a factory in Oklahoma as a coupe.

Do you think Chinese car maker Nanjing Automotive learned anything from the BMW-made Mini Cooper craze?

I predict a stellar market - as long as the MG can get its own starring role in a blockbuster American movie starring Marky Mark. Preferably one that involves an international ring of thieves and Mos Def.

For those seeking a long-lost loved one, online registration is available with the Carson City-based nonprofit International Soundex Reunion Registry.

The registry reunites family members separated by adoption, divorce or other traumatic events. It is a mutual consent registry, which means both parties looking to reunite need to register. Thousands of matches have been made over 30 years, Registrar Marri Rillera told me this week.

Its database contains more than 200,000 people looking for a family member. Some matches are made off registrations that are 30 years old. There is no fee for the service. The organization is staffed mostly by volunteers and operates with an annual $60,000 budget funded by private donations.

Carlita Ray, a volunteer with the registry and the former owner of the Brougher-Bath Mansion (she sold recently for about $1.1 million) said many people want to be reunited with a birth parent, sibling or child, but they don't try out of fear.

"They think they're not allowed to know," she said. "Or they think it's something to be ashamed of. But somebody else might be looking for you."

People don't know that they have an option outside of state records that are closed to them, she said.

For information visit www.isrr.net or call 775-882-7755.

• Contact reporter Becky Bosshart at bbosshart@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1212.