  We here present our on-going project to unveil the post-nova population by
re-discovering old novae that have been lost after the initial outburst and of
which the binary itself is unobserved. We take UBVR photometry for the
candidate selection, long-slit spectroscopy to confirm these candidates, and
time-resolved spectroscopy to measure the orbital period of the newly confirmed
post-novae. Some preliminary results are shown as examples.
