subject: How To Find Your Missing Brother Or Half Brother [print this page] How To Find Your Missing Brother Or Half Brother
If you have missed your brother for a very long time, you will no doubt understand it can be an emotional experience trying to find him.This article will guide you through the steps to finding your brother or half brother. You will be pleased to hear that finding someone on line is often quite simple if you know all the pitfalls and how to avoid them. The only snag can be when you come up against a problem and without professional advice and support it can become a stressful time. Often it pays to invest in a personal service that can advise and help answer all of your questions.The first step to successfully finding your brother starts with knowing his exact full name. Be mindful to check up on all the available birth records to make sure the spelling is correct. So many mistakes can be made at this stage and it is crucial every letter is correct if you are going to find your brother. A common problem with names is that they sometimes can be spelt in more than one way. Over a long period of time you may have overlooked something especially where you have never been in contact with him and only learnt what you know from another person in your family. A typical example of this is that he is thought to be Geoffrey when in fact he was christened Jeffery.With a rare name you may find he is the only one on the electoral roll but the reality is that there are usually dozens of people with exactly the same name. Your brother may have also opted out of being published on the electoral roll and to find him you have to go back many years. Once you are absolutely sure of your brother's name you need to decide which ones out of the many identical names are most likely to be the one you are looking for. This can generally be determined by factoring in their age, their occupation and where you believe he may be living now. Once you have taken these factors into considerable, thus eliminating places like Northern Ireland or the Scottish Isles if you have sufficient proof to back this decision, you will have a smaller list of men who possibly could be your brother. At this stage you have no choice but to contact all of the remaining people who surely must include your long lost brother.This is a simple trial and error situation and in most cases it is easiest and more practical to write a short letter to everyone than to phone about half and have to write to the rest anyway.This can be a time consuming and more importantly an emotional task which in many cases is best outsourced to professionals who have valuable day to day experience spanning back many years. Typically you will only be asked to pay the extra cost of the postage. It isn't the easiest of thing to communicate with someone you can't remember and may have never seen before.Then when you have written to all the possibilities the wait for a positive answer can be nerve wracking. You will need to appreciate that he will have probably received your letter, but owing to the fact that he has never missed you, unlike yourself, he will take ages to come to terms with the situation and even think about replying.Finally a reunion may come after a series of phones calls, emails or letters. Every reunion is different and the most important tip is to be patient and let the new relationship develop naturally.
