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Finding half brothers and sisters

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Charlotte

Charlotte Report 14 Jan 2015 14:00

Hi I've got a copy of my biological fathers birth certificate how do I find out if he had any more children thanks

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 14 Jan 2015 14:12

Firstly find out if he got married, because if he had any more children outside of marriage they are going to be next to impossible to find in records.

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

lavender

lavender Report 14 Jan 2015 14:26

Have you entered your own details on to an online family tree? This enables others to contact you if they are also searching?

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 14 Jan 2015 15:37

Don't build you hopes up Charlotte.
Not all findings have a happy ending. I purchased my biological fathers Birth Certificate.
I then traced his marriage and found I had 4/5 half siblings.
No happy reunion there, they`ve been told by a close elderly relative its not possible (but I know different).
If they don't want to know so be it . I`m prepared to let sleeping dogs lie.
I was upset at first, but I can live with disappointment.
I look at it like this, their father never acknowledged me whilst he was alive, so why should I knock myself out over it.

I can only tell you my own personal findings.
I hope you fare a lot better sweetie.

Btw. please don't anyone come in and tell me to ask if any one of these siblings would like to do a dna test...
I have tried that, through a mediator, but they are apparently still not interested and they believe their Aunt`s (Fathers sister`s) story above mine (a total stranger to them).

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

Charlotte

Charlotte Report 14 Jan 2015 16:57

I don't know how to find out if he got married again a couple of marriage with he's name came up apart from my mum's but when I clicked on the date of birth was not there so without paying out for more certificates on wild goose chases I font know how to do it??? The weird thing was he's birth certificate arrived today and first time I knew when he's birthday is and my grandparents names!! At the age of 42!! :-S

jax

jax Report 14 Jan 2015 18:04

Use these sites to find birth, Marriages and Deaths
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Or for later records to 2006/7
https://familysearch.org


Is his name very common?

Researching:
Nothing much