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Are there any other ways to find missing relatives?

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Sometimes, the reason you can't find any active records is that your relatives may have passed away. In this case, you can use Findagrave.com. This website allows you to research where your relatives may be buried. By locating their graves, you can gather valuable information that might lead you to other relatives or clues about their whereabouts.

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How can I find my mom I never met? I only have a first and last name and place of residence, I'm not sure if it was the birthplace.

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If you were abandoned/left with your father or other adult, you could ask them. If you're not comfortable with that, check ZabaSearch, WhitePages, or Google for their names. Since you have a place of residence, you can check RealEstate and see who owned the house/apartment around the time your mother lived or stayed there. Then you can track the owners down and get more info.Using ZabaSearch, you can run her first name and address through their database and hopefully find something. Warning, if it was a closed adoption, all her records are sealed.

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How can I find two uncles if I only know their full names and that they were born in the late 1940s?

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If they are deceased, you can check mortuaries for their records, orcheck a search engine for their obituaries. If they are still alive, or you found no record of their death, you could check nursing homes or generic or task-specific search engine.

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I've been looking for my daughter for a long time. She is in Idaho somewhere. I know her full name and the city in which she was last seen. What can I do?

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Try using the website ZabaSearch to find her address, email, even a phone number. If you want more detailed information, you may have to pay for that. Or you could hire a private detective to track her down.

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How can I find my dad, whom I have never seen?

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It depends on how much information you have. You can talk to your mom or anyone else who may have known him. If you know his whole name, you can use the internet/social media to search. Failing all of that, you can hire a private investigator.

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My cousin borrowed my car two days ago, and I haven’t been able to reach him since then. What can I do to try and locate him?

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Go to the police and file a missing person report on him. Tell them everything you know about the car, and show photos of it, too, if possible. Also give the police identifying details about him.

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