Cindy60545

I just googled Troy Dunn. His show was The Locator. Check him out, believe me, HE'S FOR REAL!

coopah

Ramona-Go online to cemeteries where you think your father may be buried. There has been an effort for cemeteries to list those buried. Unfortunately, with so many cremations these days not everyone is buried.

Betsy- Who is that clerk to tell you that you can't talk to the judge? If you really want to find out your history, maybe you know someone who knows the judge and you could "meet" that way. The judge would probably be upset to know that such a simple request was denied. The clerk is on a power trip...it's the only power that sad individual has.

Ramona Byrd

[QUOTE=coopah;5365860]Ramona-Go online to cemeteries where you think your father may be buried. There has been an effort for cemeteries to list those buried. Unfortunately, with so many cremations these days not everyone is buried.
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DARN!!! We should have thought of Cremation, since most of the family believe in it. We've all been so
concentrating on burials that it never entered our minds!!! Which brings us back to Arizona's fussy laws about
death certificates. We don't mind the information they want, we can show birth certificates and such, but we really
need place and date. Maybe I'll try one of these online sites that find arrest records going back a lot of years. Dear
old dad was a drunk and a loud one at that...his father was Irish and probably got it from him. His mother was a dear
old German but came from a pacifist family..Quakers/Amish and Mennonites.
I'll try the online PIs..thanks for the interest.

noveltyjunkie

Ramona please don't equate Irish and drunkard. It offends. My father was Irish and never touched a drop, for religious reasons. It sure is annoying when people assume.

I hope you find info about your Dad. There surely is information out there, but privacy laws are a serious obstacle in some places. Can you access voter registrations from the years shortly after he disappeared?

burchquilts

So true. It kind of reminds me of "Be careful what you wish for"...

SandyinZ4

I am just going by what popped into my mind but I think Colorado changed their rules to allow anyone over 18 to access their birth records if birth mom agrees. If you could prove or 'the daughter' that her mom was deceased, perhaps you could get some info. You might check out the State of Colorado website and see if there is some place that could steer you in the right direction. I know things used to be a bit easier before all this privacy thing started.

Ramona Byrd

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I'm sorry if I offended anyone, it's just that the TV sort of jokes crept into my rantings. I'm myself part Irish and German on both sides, with a touch of Indian way back on Mom's side, so my surviving siblings and I are heavy drinkers of sodas, tea and water!!!

As for voter's registrations, that's a good idea, but I never remember him voting..I only knew him from age 14 to
16, and he was absent for months at a time after he dumped us on the Yuma Indian Reservation. So there's a lot about him I'm blank on. Now I'm trying to access people in our home town of Milton, WV, to see if there are any Bird/Byrds left who might have information about him. We lost track of them in the 1940s and only reconnected
with them in the late 90s.

Quilty-Louise

I saw this post a few weeks ago but I was at work. By the time I got
home sad to say I had forgotten about it.

I live in Colorado and I have been searching for my older half sister
for years.

Colorado is one of the FEW states that allows for siblings to search
for adoptees. Back in the 1990 there use to be a group called "Siblings
of Adoptees" but I didn't have the money to pay for their help so I went
out on my "own" to do what I could at the the time though I lived in NC
so searching records was NOT an easy task, not to mention I didn't own
a computer much less know what internet was (early 90's).

There are some registries you can check out if you are interested.

adoption.com (I am in the "searching for siblings" section).

adopteeconnect.com (I just found this so I have not yet registered).

quilter1

Just remember that these things do not always have a happy ending.