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BigB
C & J are 10!
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Stacey
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The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
My family has secrets.....lots of them...plus we are Irish, so we NEVER talk about anything.
I just learned that I have a 1/2 brother. No idea who his mother is beyond a nick name. We think he may have been adopted.
I looked in the DOE for a record of him and nothing. Which leads me to believe that maybe he was adopted.
All I have is an approximate birth year and his father's name. Anyone have any ideas of how I could find him?
Thanks,
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Posted 5/21/16 7:44 AM  |
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Peainapod
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Diana
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Re: The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
if he was adopted they probably changed the names.
with out a city or year of birth it may be very hard to find birth records.
have you tried ancestry.com?
Troy Dunn, the locator, has a show that does this..finds long lost relatives/siblings etc. He finds people with very little info sometimes.
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| Posted 5/21/16 9:54 AM |
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Jenn79
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Re: The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
Did you happen to see the 20/20 show last week? It was about 3 1/2 siblings that didn't know they each existed. They actually found each other by signing up on ancestry.com. They sent a dna sample and were eventually matched to their siblings. So maybe start there?
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| Posted 5/21/16 9:57 AM |
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Re: The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
I would definitely start with Ancestry.com. Good luck! About 20 years ago my mom learned that she had 3 half-siblings. Her brother went to buy a car and the he and the salesman had the same fairly uncommon last name, and they got to chatting and realized they had the same father. It was really crazy that they met that way.
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| Posted 5/21/16 10:08 AM |
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evrythng4areason
And then there were 4
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Re: The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
Posted by MrsProfessor
I would definitely start with Ancestry.com. Good luck! About 20 years ago my mom learned that she had 3 half-siblings. Her brother went to buy a car and the he and the salesman had the same fairly uncommon last name, and they got to chatting and realized they had the same father. It was really crazy that they met that way.
That's insane! We found out after my grandpa passed that my mother has a half sibling in Japan from the war. I have no clue if it would ever even be possible to find him or her.
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| Posted 5/21/16 10:26 AM |
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Funkybutt
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The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
When my MIL died 2 years ago, my husband found a note stuffed in some random Christmas cards that talked about how she was pregnant with my SIL before she got married. She wrote about how ashamed she was about it. DH and SIL had no clue and might not have known if they didn't look through that random pile of cards.
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MarathonKnitter
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The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
i can write a book...
i agree with others about trying ancestry.com
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| Posted 5/21/16 7:03 PM |
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MsSissy
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Re: The secrets of families....boy it can be shocking!
Posted by Jenn79
Did you happen to see the 20/20 show last week? It was about 3 1/2 siblings that didn't know they each existed. They actually found each other by signing up on ancestry.com. They sent a dna sample and were eventually matched to their siblings. So maybe start there?
I saw that one. Not only crazy how they found each, crazy how they started in this world
To OP definitely go through ancestry.com.
My brothers and I keep saying we want to do this.
We need to do it already.
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| Posted 5/21/16 7:14 PM |
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