Help i need to find my dad

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Savannah Zweekhorst said: Im trying to find my dad who i have never met and only know his name please help me my name is savannah rose zweekhorst my mothers name is donna lee zweekhorst my dad was in the army reserves and his name is james robert schmel jr and all his family is in Pennsylvania and my mom and him met in washington he signed my birth certificate at puyallup good dam hospital im 23 and i need to know i have questions please help

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Juli said: Online genealogy deals with dead people. You're looking/asking in totally the wrong place.

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Tom Huber said: First, welcome to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

If your father is living, and you know his name, then you may want to try one of the living person's search sites. A good one is Zaba Search (https://www.zabasearch.com/), which I use when checking whether a person is still alive or not. I previously used the White Pages (https://www.whitepages.com/) but they want to sell you their services now, rather than provide even basic information...

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Tom Huber said: By the way, when posting this kind of request, you should be very careful about revealing any personal information.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: You could start by asking your mom, if she is still alive.

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Amy Archibald said: Use this resource and you'll find a mailing address and phone numbers and a listing of all past addresses:

https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/

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Justin Masters said: You can also consider taking a DNA test at Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/dna/

And when you get your results back, see who matches closely. There's a chart to help you correlate relations with the shared centiMorgan number you get back. (these are ranges, so you have to augment your results with typical genealogy research, but for father/daughter relationships, the numbers are fairly conclusive)

What this can help you do is possibly locate half siblings (or cousins) that may be closely related and possibly have more information on your father.

Use the Shared centiMorgan tool at https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4

Good luck!

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Tom Huber said: Thanks for the link, Amy. I've added it to my bookmarks for searching for living persons.