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Offline geminisparks

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How to start finding our brother?
« on: Tuesday 05 March 24 21:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi all,
Thanks for any help you can offer.
As a child I was aware that I had a half brother, my father’s son from a previous relationship.
I never met him and do not know his name. I only know he was slightly older than me - probably born somewhere between 1980 and 1986 - and that he served in the army.
I have very limited information, I don’t even know where he was born or his mother’s name.
How do I go about looking? I have searched births using my father’s surname, but it is too hard to narrow down from what little info I know.
I tried to track addresses my father had lived at during the 80s, but found it impossible to access this census info.
What do I do?
I’d hate to think that I just need to wait for a DNA match.

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Re: How to start finding our brother?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 March 24 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Hello & welcome
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I’d hate to think that I just need to wait for a DNA match.
I think you might have to.
You can upload your DNA to any site that will accept it free of charge.
This will give the maximum coverage.
Good luck.
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Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
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Re: How to start finding our brother?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 08 March 24 22:54 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat

If your father never married the mother - it's possible the birth was registered under the mothers surname.

Unless your father attended the registration of the birth & signed the register - his name will not appear on the birth cert

Unless you are able to obtain more info to identify him - DNA is your only way forward & any contact will be dependant on whether he has already gone or decides to go down that same route
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Re: How to start finding our brother?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 08 March 24 23:03 GMT (UK) »
If you know any friends of your father's from back then, possibly also friends of any unclesor aunts you have, they may know more regarding surnames and places.
Coffey, Cummins [Rathfalla, Tipperary], Cummins [Skirke, Laois], Curran, Dillon [Clare], Fogarty [Garran, Laois/Tipp], Hughes, Keshan (Keeshan), Loughman [Harristown and Killadooley, Laois], Mallon [Armagh], Malone, Markham [Caherkine, Clare], McKeon(e) [Sligo/Kilkenny/Waterford], McNamara, Meagher, Prescott [Kilkenny/Waterford/Wexford?], Rafferty, Ryan, Sullivan, Tobin
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GEDCOM file: 1980344