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Do You Need To Find Someone Fast?

You’re likely here because you need to FIND SOMEONE FAST.  If you need to find people, birth parents or an adoptee today, please visit: 

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Find People Anywhere In The USA - Free

Thanks for visiting The Search Advisor - a FREE service provided by OmniTrace Corp. and other professional researchers, genealogists and private investigators throughout the USA.  If you need to find people who are missing, you’ve come to the right place… 

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Reunion Stories

Reunion Stories

Here are some family and adoption reunion stories sent to our OmniTrace private investigators:  Sari Acevedo, Rachel Weiss and Chris Maione

Happy Monday Chris!

I cannot thank Omnitrace enough for bringing such joy into my life!  I sent a letter to Laura’s parents, they called her and she called me.  We set up a meeting for a reunion on Saturday; what a spectacular day for all of us.  Her parents, adopted brother, Laura, myself and my husband met at Applebee’s in West Covina.  We were there for hours, laughing, telling stories and trying to catch up on 31 years of absence.  Laura was raised by the most outstanding, wonderful people.  It was fabulous to meet

New Jersey Adoption Search

New Jersey Adoption Search

Are you conducting a New Jersey adoption search?  

A while back, we wrote that a bill to open adoption records in New Jersey had been passed by the New Jersey Senate and was being considered for approval by the New Jersey Assembly.  If passed, an adoptee would have access to his/her original birth certificate as long as a no contact veto was not signed by the birth parents. 

Here is that complete post:  Good News About Finding Birth Parents In New Jersey 

OmniTrace recently contacted the New Jersey Office Of Legislative Services for an update.  Bill S611 has not yet been approved.  They informed us that

Locate Someone Free - Search The White Pages!

Locate Someone Free

You can locate someone free by searching the White Pages.  These are available free via the Internet as well as hard copy telephone books.

Our researchers often use free online telephone directories and telephone books to locate someone and verify their address and phone number information.  We have our own library of telephone books covering cities all over the USA as well a list of our favorite online white page web sites

So, why do we use hard copy telephone books instead of online white page directories to locate someone free?  Good question!  We mainly use older telephone books to

Troy Dunn - The Locator Is Now On WE Channel

Troy Dunn - The Locator 

Callers and visitors to our OmniTrace web site have been saying that Troy Dunn - The Locator was on Dr. Phil yesterday. 

Troy Dunn - The Locator has been in the business of reuniting birth parents and adoptee (s) for about twenty years.  As a matter of fact, he helped his own mom, Katie Dunn an adoptee, find her birth mother.  What could be better than that?

After helping his mom find her birth mother, Troy Dunn decided to dedicate his time, his resources and his life to reuniting birth family members all over the world.  Even Troy’s mother is now an adoption search specialist!  According to Troy, he has helped reunite thousands of families!  Literally millions of people have witnessed Troy Dunn conduct reunions between birth parents and adopees on TV. 

Troy Dunn has a new adoption reunion show–The Locator–on the WE Channel which premiered Sept. 6, 2008.  You can catch it on

States With Open Adoption Records

States With Open Adoption Records

There are several states that currently have open adoption records.  In these states, an adult adoptee can obtain an original birth certificate and in some instances additional adoption record information.

If you are an adoptee looking for your birth parents in an open adoption records state, please do request your open adoption records.  However, please be aware that obtaining your original birth records does not mean that your search will be a piece of cake.  Having information on your birth mother, such as her maiden name and perhaps an old address is a nice start, but you will still have to obtain her current name and current address information.  Your birth mother may have changed her name several times, or she may not reside in the state where you were born.

Here is a list of states where adoption records for all or some years can be opened.  In some states, birth parents can sign a no-contact veto:

The County Clerk’s Office Can Help You Search For People

Search For PeopleSearch For People 

A while back, we wrote a post on how to search for people with free help from the city clerk’s office.  You can read that post here:  City Clerk’s Office Can Help You Find People.

When you search for people and you know the county where they reside, the county clerk’s office is another great free resource.  Here is a nice website to help you find any county in the USA:  NACO - Find A County.

An easy way to find the address and phone number of a particular county clerk is to

Staying Organized and Keeping Good Notes Will Help You Search For Someone Lost

Search For Someone Lost 

When OmniTrace begins a new search for someone lost, we ask our client, who is requesting the search, for as much information as possible about the lost subject of the search.   We take extensive notes and use the following worksheet (feel free to make a copy for your own use):

Missing Persons Search Form

During the course of a search for someone lost, we attempt to fill in all the blanks in our worksheet.  We also take notes on any research that we conduct such as:

OmniTrace Testimonials and Reports

OmniTrace TestimonialsHere are some thank you letters from our clients to  OmniTrace Private Investigators — Sari, Julie, Tatiana and Chris.

To all of you angels at Omnitrace, I want to express my deepest gratitude to you for locating my biological son.  My son was born in 1968.  I was 17 (just out of high school) when he was conceived and 18 when he was born.  I was unmarried and never told his birth father or my parents that I was pregnant and moved to Los Angeles from Montana where he was born and adopted in a private adoption.  Giving him up was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my 58 years of life so far.  Before the nurses took him away from the delivery room, they offered for me

Searching For Birth Mother | Searching For Adoptee - Call The Library!

Searching For Birth Mother | Searching For Adoptee

Searching For Birth Mother | Searching For Adoptee - Call The LibraryThe Public Library is a great resource if you are searching for your birth mother or searching for an adoptee

Not convinced?  Here’s just one example of how a library can help you when searching for your birth mother

If you were adopted in New York City and have your amended (adopted) birth certificate, you can obtain your original birth name by visiting the New York Public Library Genealogy Department.  This department has original birth listings (in birth books and on microfiche) dating back

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