My father was active military, and I do not have his social security number? How can I find him?

Question

He was active duty Air Force, served in Torrejon around 1968-1969. He was originally from Massachussetts area. Jewish decent, Brother David, father Raymond..

His nickname was "cookie"

Answer 1

contact your local VA or the DOD with all the info you have. if you know his date of birth, that would be a huge help!! best of luck finding him. and when you do, i hope it's a happy reunion.

Answer 2

Social Security numbers are protected from the public while a person lives. After that you can find them.
What you are looking for is called the Social Security Death Index and many public libraries have the CD. You do have to know some things such as state of birth, state of death, things like that.
He is probably not old enough to find anything about him in the Census records since they are protected from the public for 72 years and the most recent which we can access in 1930.
The Church of Later Day Saints (Mormons) have what they call Family History Centers. Look in the phone book and find one. If you see no reference to Family History Center, just call a church and ask where the nearest one is. They are free and the volunteers there will most likely be happy to assist with advice.
Classmates.com also has a site for military units which might help out in case he is still living.
There are also surname bulletin boards at some genealogy sites where you can post questions for people of the same surname to examine and hopefully answer.
If you think he is still living you might try family members. If you know his parents names, you can probably find them in the 1920 or 1930 Census and thus find his aunts and uncles. If you don't know if your grandparents are living or not, try to find them.

Answer 3

My father was active military from 68-76 and I found him with out any military help what so ever. Before I found my dad, I just assumed he was in the Vietnam War, but had no proof. I learned this after I found him. All I had was just a first and last name. (Just my luck he had one of the most common names in the USA) It took me a while, but I did it. I am assuming your father would be in his 60's late 50's or early 60's. You must so a LOT of cross referencing and follow up on ANY possibilities.
Keep good notes as you find things, even if they end up not panning out, at least you will have a log of facts and non-facts to help keep information straight.

In general most men stay fairly close to their original home town and state. When doing searches on the internet, put his name in "xxx" then type jewish or the branch of service he was in or the state he was from afterwards. This will help narrow search and possibly find an article or obituary with his name in it. At least those hits would be possibilities.

Is David your bother or your father's brother? Were you a "love child" or were your parent's married at one time? You might have better luck with public records if they were married. Non the less, I used public records in my search. I found out through tons of digging an uncle's name who had been divorced and got lots family info through his divorce records.

Well I wish you luck. I I can help you in any way, please feel free to E-mail me. I'll do what I can or help you brain storm with what info you have.

Just thought to tell you this.....Use different search engines online while seaching. You will get different articles from each of them.
I was amazed at what a difference that makes. Google and Altavista are the two I use most. Don't forget to use the image search on google. Place names in " xxx " again for an exact match. Don't forget to try David's name too.

Answer 4

Try Vet Friends. com they help veterans and help other people locate their friends with as much information as you have i would also try the public records Your father probably would be about 57 to 60 also try the social security death records on rootsweb good luck