Barbara Leonard wrote in a message to Michael Kirst:
BL> So what State were you born in and was your birthmom still there?
I was born in Wisconsin.  My b-mom and I both live in Florida - I live in 
Central Florida and she lives up in the "panhandle".
BL> Have you been given the address of the branch of service that your
BL> bfather was in....  I think there are several different addresses
BL> depending on which branch of the military the person was in.
He was in the US Navy.  I have the book "How to Locate Anyone Who is or Has 
Been in the Military".
BL> I do NOT know however, exactly what information you can request and
BL> GET.....  You can request anything, right? :)  :)
As a blood relative, I can request and receive his entire military file. I 
have already verified that part.
BL> Also, the other aspect you were talking about.. if I ever find something
BL> that will avail me of it, I will keep you on my list.....
BL> BTW.... do you have a dob on that person....?
Unfortunately, all I have is a DOB "range". :-(  I know that he was 17 years 
old when I was born (09-Oct-1955) and for that to have been the case, he 
would have had to have been born between 10-Oct-1937 and 09-Oct-1938.  And 
therein lies my biggest hurdle.  No exact DOB. Without an exact DOB, the 
Military Personnel Records Center cannot help me.  Of course if I also 
happened to have either his SSN or his Service Number, they could also help 
me.  But I don't have either of those. And with a name like Richard Lee, 
there are just too many of them (somewhere like 1460 phone number listings in 
1992) to start writing letters or phoning.
BL> Do you know anything about him like occupation, place of origin
BL> at the appropriate time :)?  Place of birth??
Nope, nope, nope.  He completed 2 years of High School.  His mother (who's 
name I do not know) was divorced at the time and they were living in an 
apartment in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  I do not know if she took back her 
maden name when she got divorced.  I also do not know which state they were 
living in when she got divorced.  And I do not know his father's name.
BL> And as for bmom.... is it the big secret thing, or denial...?
I suspect that is due to the fact that husband # 2 (current one) doesn't know 
about what happened before husband # 1 and she doesn't want to "rock the 
boat" with him after all these years.
BL> I guess being a birthmom... I could relate to it to the
BL> sense that most birthmothers have been in the same place... some
BL> have simply gotten through somehow or at least tried to live with
BL> it and still not block persons out of their life....
Unfortunately I do not know what might "get through to her" since I have only 
had one contact with her and that was a 45 minute phone call back in July of 
1992.  At that time she requested that we not have any further contact.  The 
hope that she might "open up" after husband # 2 departs the scene (his health 
has not been very good for a while now) is what is keeping me from contacting 
her to try to get some additional information about my b-father.
BL> Glad that your sister is close.... is  she also close geographically?
My sister still lives up in Wisconsin.  B-mother moved down to Florida after 
my sister got married which just happened to be when my b-mother and husband 
# 1 got divorced - shortly after my sister got married.
BL> Do you have non id? The big question - DOB??
I have my non-id, and I have my sealed Court File which I obtained via a 
Court Order.  Unfortunately there wasn't anything in it about my b-father 
since back then the b-fathers were never ajudicated.  From my non-id I know 
that he was 17 when I was born, but they didn't list his DOB.
BL> I wonder where I was when you were searching..... perhaps you did
BL> not post it online..  You think?? :)
It has been quite some time since I last posted my information about my 
b-father search.  Perhaps I need to re-post it.  Now if I can just find the 
text file that has all of the information already typed in.....
Michael Kirst
f/k/a Christopher Lee Backus
Sysop of The Noble House BBS
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