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Hersheys · 2010-07-05 10:57:37

Apologies if this is the wrong forum! Firstly, I'm not adopted! Basically I want to find my dad. He left before I was born. I know his first name - nothing else. For various reasons, I can't find out more. Do I have any hope, or am I up sh1t creek without a paddle?

05-07-2010 10:57am

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Hersheys

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Apologies if this is the wrong forum!

Firstly, I'm not adopted!

Basically I want to find my dad. He left before I was born. I know his first name - nothing else. For various reasons, I can't find out more.

Do I have any hope, or am I up sh1t creek without a paddle?

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#2 06-07-2010 7:13am

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I'm presuming he's not on your birth cert? Was your mother married to him? If so, then get the marriage cert.

Do you know anything else about him - where he lived (where your mother lived before you were born if they lived together), where he worked etc.
Any of these things can be a start.

Going on a first name only and nothing else will be difficult.

I traced my father using only a nickname and the place he worked in a particular year. It took 7 years, but it can be done.

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