Finding someone... how?

[jimspeed]

Ok long story short, I'm trying to find my dad, who left my mum when I was born (37 years ago)
I've managed to find his mother and sister who both moved away from this area but have not heard from him in 27 years by then he had moved to France to work on yachts..
Sooo armed with as many of his personal details as I can get, date of birth pictures etc where should I start?
I realize 37 years is a long time and having spoken to his mum and sister,
they were all told to have no contact with me by mum and her family but they are all happy to meet me and have a chat etc and I've asked if there is a family reason for him not to have contacted them and they say not..

tldr: nobody from his family has heard off him in 27 years and have no contact details....helpfully his name is steve Brown...
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[kawakid]

So if you have managed to contact your grandmother and your aunt on your fathers side, can't they give you his details or pass on a message with yours.

Perhaps you have not explained it too well.

Edit.

Just re read. If they haven't heard in 27 years then I guess he may have died. Surely they would at least get a Xmas card.

Have you tried Google. Does your dad have a common name or something unique?
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[Kickstart]

Hi

An uncle disappeared some time ago and an aunt tried to trace him (in Aus). Think it was the Salvation Army that managed to find him (although he said he didn't want to reconnect).

All the best

K
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[Shaft]

Good luck finding him, but be careful what you wish for - if his own mother and sister don't know where he is, he doesn't want to be found, maybe for good reason.

Two people very close to me spent a lot of time looking for birth parents, only to be extremely disappointed when they found them; if anything, they are now even more mentally fucked up than they were before they found their natural parents.

Sometimes those sleeping dogs are better left lying.
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[jimspeed]

Yeh I know it might be a mistake but at the moment with my cancer as it is I think the time is right and if I find him and he's a cnut at least I've done it.
better to try than always wonder what if I guess.
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[BTTD]

I remember my father used the Salvation Army to find his sister when their father died. He always said they were brilliant at finding her.
On a negative note, he went to a lot of trouble to try and reconnect and make her part of the family again. This was during the early 80's and I was fairly young at the time so didn't know the full picture until much later, but basically she wasn't in any way interested, aside from asking my dad for a £5k loan (she didn't work, and was never going to repay it).
When my dad said no, she went berzerk as apparently he could afford to give her £5k because he ran his own business and we lived in a nice house. 1982, £5k was a lot of money.
My dad tried to keep in touch, but eventually she moved a couple of times and disappeared again.
I didn't bother trying to find her when my father died. She can remain a long lost aunt.

I hope your story has a happy ending, but when people cut all contact it kinda follows that they don't give a fck.

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[Hetzer]

My uncle vanished and after extensive research it turned out his birth had never been registered.
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[Pol Anorl]

my dad was given up at birth, managed to track his mum and dads information down but both his parents are dead, we did however find that his best friend of god knows how many years when he was older turned out to be his brother, he sadly died in a car crash a few years back.
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