Since 1998, the GRG has established a broad network of correspondents throughout the world. GRG correspondents monitor, investigate, and attempt to validate supercentenarian claims in their respective region. Case applications are sent to the GRG administration team for review and potential case acceptance. In recognition of their work, a partial list of these Country Correspondents follows:

Austria Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Caribbean China Egypt & Central Africa Finland France Germany Greece India Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland Italy Japan Mexico & Central America Middle East The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Russia South America (Other) South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States

If you would like to apply for the position of Country Correspondent for your own country and you feel comfortable translating source documents from your native language into English and are on the computer on a frequent basis, read the Birthday/Obituary Section of your local newspapers, please contact John M. "Johnny" Adams at JAdams - at sign - grg dot org or call (949) 922-9786.

Note that you may need to contact government officials in your home country from time to time and must be willing to sign our Standard GRG Policy agreeing to safeguard original documents and contact information about subjects, their next of kin, and family members in a confidential manner.

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September 13, 2009; The Charter for the World's Oldest People Group is as follows:

1. Collect and post demographic data about persons aged 108 and older;

2. Assist in the validation of such data, worldwide, based on three independent source documents needed to prove the claim. This may include accurate translation of documents by our correspondents from the original source language into English. We will also help to perform statistical analysis of the data for publication in scientific/medical journals, according to various demographic criteria.

3. Collect photographs of such persons for posting on the Internet.

As such, the goal of the WOP Group is to obtain a historical list of the entire set of persons aged 110 and older who are validated. (We begin our validation process at age 108 for "candidates").