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Member Since: January 2011 Posts: 1 Send Message	audrey	Report	19 Feb 2011 20:23
Member Since: January 2011 Posts: 1 Send Message	Two years ago I had a wonderful response when I discovered I was adopted and all I had was my mother's name. You all helped me locate her. It took one year to trace her but we were reunited after 64 years. She has moved back to the UK and is 85. I am so lucky to find out the story of my birth from her. Now I would like to find out about my father. His name was Billy (prob William) Abbot he was american and was born in 1923. My mother met him in Bridgwater in Somerset and believed he died on or after DDay landings. I cannot find that he did die in the war however. I have a person born on 24 Nov 1923 in Fayetteville West Virginia USA who seems the likely person. He died on 14 Aug 1994 in Fayetteville. Can anyone give me any tips on what to do to try and see if this is him. I have managed to find his enlistment record but that's all. I would like to get his death certificate and then try and contact anyone mentioned on it. Is that the best way to do it? HELP PLEASE!