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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 431676" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>First ask ALL the relatives that you feel comfortable communicating with for as many details as they are willing to give you. Of course skip your father - no reason to think he would give you the right answers anyway. If you have any clue of his name, try searching facebook. If you know the area of the country (state and/or town or county), try classmates.com for the years he might have graduated high school in those areas. Also try searching public documents for your father and/or mother's name on documents like birth certificates. Even try newspaper searches if you have an idea of what area of the country to look. It was VERY common to have a child, esp a boy child, be introduced to the community in a birth or christening announcement. These always list the parent's names, so searching for the parents would be the way to go.</p><p></p><p>Also check some of the adoption forums. There are places wehre kids who were adopted can post their info and hope it matches someone if they are looking for paretns and or sibs. I doubt he was adopted, though it was more common then then now to adopt older kids. Esp if it was a more rural area - people adopted kids old enough to work their farms because they then had labor for the cost of raising them. </p><p></p><p>I hope you can find him and that knowing brings whatever you are hoping it will into your life. Also check genealogy websites and forums - often people there will help you for free or you can hire someone to help for very little money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 431676, member: 1233"] First ask ALL the relatives that you feel comfortable communicating with for as many details as they are willing to give you. Of course skip your father - no reason to think he would give you the right answers anyway. If you have any clue of his name, try searching facebook. If you know the area of the country (state and/or town or county), try classmates.com for the years he might have graduated high school in those areas. Also try searching public documents for your father and/or mother's name on documents like birth certificates. Even try newspaper searches if you have an idea of what area of the country to look. It was VERY common to have a child, esp a boy child, be introduced to the community in a birth or christening announcement. These always list the parent's names, so searching for the parents would be the way to go. Also check some of the adoption forums. There are places wehre kids who were adopted can post their info and hope it matches someone if they are looking for paretns and or sibs. I doubt he was adopted, though it was more common then then now to adopt older kids. Esp if it was a more rural area - people adopted kids old enough to work their farms because they then had labor for the cost of raising them. I hope you can find him and that knowing brings whatever you are hoping it will into your life. Also check genealogy websites and forums - often people there will help you for free or you can hire someone to help for very little money. [/QUOTE]
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