The present invention is addressed to a method for establishing a membership of subscribing members for alerting each to the loss of a registered person within a subscribing member. The method commences by establishing a membership of one or more subscribing members. The next step is to provide each subscribing member with access to a registration station capable of receiving registration information for a person to be registered and issuing a registered person indicator, and an alert station where a custodian of the registered person can enter the registered person indicator for issuing an alert that the registered person is lost. Finally, the method includes the step of creating a database interconnected to each of the subscribing member's registration station and alert station via a computer network.