tracing lost family

meritaten

ancestry has a 'living relatives' finder. you could try their 14 day free trial and look on there.

kt1inamillion

Hi...

I'm glad someone has asked this as I'm in a similar position as would love to make contact with my dads side of my family but don't know where to start.

One question I do have is does anyone know how and how easy it is to find someone that's adopted? My dad had 2 sons (both with the same mum) way before I was born, I have never met them but would love to.

....to OP sorry for hijacking your post.x

CharlieRabbit01

Mrs_P_Pincher wrote: »

I do this sort of stuff as a sideline, but would be happy to try and help you. If you would like to send me a personal message on here with the names and any other info you have (places etc) I will happily look and see what I can find for you.

thank you for the offer but I'm a bit wary of giving out details online to strangers.

I dont mean to offend.

CharlieRabbit01

nom_de_plume wrote: »

Just a note on FB. If you send a message to someone you are not FB friends with, it goes into another message folder and the recipient does NOT get any notification of it's arrival. It's pure pot luck if they spot it.
Click on the message icon and you'll see 'Inbox' in bold and 'other' in light grey. 'Other' is where the message will likely end up.
I do believe you can pay to message non friends so that they receive notification.

oh that would be why after 3 years it still doesnt say seen.

But she has also ignored my friend requests.

CharlieRabbit01

kt1inamillion wrote: »

Hi...

I'm glad someone has asked this as I'm in a similar position as would love to make contact with my dads side of my family but don't know where to start.

One question I do have is does anyone know how and how easy it is to find someone that's adopted? My dad had 2 sons (both with the same mum) way before I was born, I have never met them but would love to.

....to OP sorry for hijacking your post.x

No problem, unfortunately being in the same position I cant help with ideas for tracing but I hope you also find your family.

TonyMMM

kt1inamillion wrote: »

Hi...

I'm glad someone has asked this as I'm in a similar position as would love to make contact with my dads side of my family but don't know where to start.

One question I do have is does anyone know how and how easy it is to find someone that's adopted? My dad had 2 sons (both with the same mum) way before I was born, I have never met them but would love to.

....to OP sorry for hijacking your post.x

I have been involved in quite a number of cases involving people tracing their birth parents. For an adopted person tracing information about their birth mother, and sometimes father, is (usually) quite straightforward, but to go the other way is almost impossible unless you know the name the adopted child was given.

To get access to the "new" names of adopted children, you have to be an authorised adoption intermediary. There are a number of such services around who may be able to help you.

There are also quite a few websites where you can register, and if the adopted child also registers you can be put in contact.

Good luck.

RAS

CharlieRabbit

Start with the basics of family history; confirm what you know.

Assuming you know when and roughly where your mother was born start by confirming this. You could go to/contact the Registry Office in the area but could also go through https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate

That will give you your grandmother's formal birth name (hopefully) and the name of her husband.

You can then check for the births of the younger aunts and the grandmother and if you wish for the marriage of the grandmother.

Given that you are dealing with women, then start checking marriages for people of that name from the time the aunts were 18 years old and you may find their marriages. If they married, check for births in the same area to couple with that name. Which would help you identify cousins.

If you can get to a main family history library you can also check all this out on microfiche as most have BMD registers on file at least until recent years.

Watch out for Mary Annes who are known as Anne, Annie or Nan or May and for Catherines who are Kate, Cath or Katie.

Once you have some names (and associated addresses) it is easier to use www.192.com or pipl.com.

pimento

CharlieRabbit01 wrote: »

Are there any free ways to trace them?

Only if you want to rely on the goodwill of people offering to do some lookups on paid for sites.

RAS

pimento wrote: »

Only if you want to rely on the goodwill of people offering to do some lookups on paid for sites.

If your local main library has a family history section, then access to the national indexes is free.

I recently did a look up for someone which identified the exact death date and location and th date of birth from fiche indexes and then found their birth location in another on-line index.

All that was free; the OP then had the choice of getting the relevant certificates at cost or not.

pimento

The trouble with death certificates in the UK is that the information on them is only as reliable as the informant. My grandmother's date of birth is wrong on her death certificate.

To find a living person you need 192.com unless you have loads of time.