Interesting two camps of ideas
I would like to add mine...
OK it is nice if beginners have their list to start with. I also spoke to many of the veterans, Germans, Czech, Slovak, USAAF etc. Mostly they helped with joy and no objections. But I had to find them myself..and that is a lesson how to work while searching. If we make it so easy, the research of the new generation would not be based on solid ground.
And to the questions "names YES, contacts NOT". Give me your name and nationality and in the world of information, internet and globalization I can locate who you are, where do you live and what is your social security number, simply all details. So the name and the fact that the person is alive is ENOUGHT for beginning of the "hunt" for those autograph hunters.