My friend wants to trace her dad, all she has is name and a road he lived in years ago

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my friends mum died a while ago and my friend wants to chase her dad, he got my friends mum pregnant and wanted to marry her, but she didn't love him and told him to get lost and never had anything to do with him.

All she has is his name and where he used to live once, but thats it. Does she have any hope

Letter to local paper, with name, dates and any other helpful details? I've seen these in ours occasionally.

look on this site if she puts name in people tab it will find him

good luck

Could be worth trying the Salvation Army -- they trace people under these sorts of circumstances and supposedly have a really good success rate.

The relevant info from the Salvation Army

thanks for the info, the salvation army say they will not search as there was no marriage between the 2 of them

if she knows where he was born or the year he was born you can use the 1901 and 1885 census on genes reunited and trace people . you have to buy credits to look at the records

or just have a look at the site and type in his name etc and see if anyone on the site has him in their tree?

192.com?

How old is your friend? Is it an unusual name?

She could try a private detective but I'm not sure how you choose a good one. Or local paper as UrsulatheSeaWitch suggests.

I'd be tempted to do a short letter and put it through letterboxes in his old neighbours street. Worth a try

That should have said through letterboxes to former neighbours in his old street

I knew what I meant....oops....

hi, the dad would be about 58, and he lived there 30+ years ago

Friends Reunited do a "street" thing - even if he's not on there himself, your friend could contact anyone else who lived there who might know where he is.

Tenuous I know, but might be worth a try.

In order, I would try:

1. 192.com / friendsreunited.co.uk
2. Letters through doors
3. Local paper
4. Private detective (can research how to find a good one while doing steps 1-3)

Take it she's tried the address itself first for family members. If she knew what he did she could try trade directories if he was likely to be self-employed. If you google find lost friends or similar there are loads of sites you can post messages on looking for people too. My job is connected to tracing people & there is loads of free stuff you can do as well as paying for some credits on sites like 192.com. Give us any info if you want & we can all try.