Family Member Missing
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Do you mean you want to order official records for a deceased member of your family? If so, the proper office will vary by place - what country, what state or province, what county or city.
If you want to share some details about the location and time period, someone can help with more specifics. You can also look up the location in the FamilySearch Wiki to learn what records are available and where to obtain them. And, the records may be available online, if we know where to look.
Happy searching!
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Depending on what you need, there's different recommendations.
If you have the name, but need information about them (birth, death, 'vital records'), you would need to stop by the County Clerk's office.
If you don't have the names, you should probably comb the census data for people who lived in the same household as the other family members.
If you are looking for a living family member, the Government will keep those records private. The best thing you could do for that would be to Google the name.
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Hi @Áine Ní Donnghaile ! Thanks for the reply! Appreciate it. I am actually looking for my father who I have not seen for a very long time. I have a koseki tohon but I am not sure where to get additional information on where he is currently located. Do you have recommendations of what process I need to follow? Thank you!
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Hi @HunterSpencer2 ! Appreciate your response. Do you have any recommendations of how will I contact County Clerks office if I am living outside of Japan?
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Ah! Looking for a living person is quite different. As this site deals in genealogy, that is out of our scope.
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When I read HunterSpencer2's response yesterday, I thought "well, that's making some assumptions", but as I didn't have anything constructive to add, I didn't comment. The OP's responses today have shown those assumptions to be entirely wrong, though, so I can't shut up any longer. :-/
Some (many?) places have no such thing as a county clerk. (Heck, some places have no such thing as counties.)
Some places procedurally and deliberately destroy census data collection paperwork after tabulation, making their censuses entirely and completely irrelevant to genealogy. Some other places don't have censuses.
Some places consider births and marriages to be public information. Other places consider even deaths to be private for some period of time.
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@Ken1857, as Áine said, FamilySearch is a genealogy site, i.e. it's concerned primarily with deceased people. Your question is akin to looking for a birth certificate in the phone book.
I wish you luck, but I don't hold out much hope: Japan's privacy laws are probably the strictest on the planet.
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