Checking for relatives on Dad...?

Question

My Dad was adopted from Spokane, Wash. His name before adoption was Roy Doer. My Dad never checked it out and he has alheimers. How would you check any relatives that could be around. He was one to many kids and put in adoption.

Answer 1

You can either use an online database where you will have to pay money to search for any relatives, or if you live near Spokane, you can go to the library/city hall where all of the marriage, death, birth, ect records are kept, which is free. They can be difficult to understand, but that is what the librarians are for.

Answer 2

Could be his name was Elroy born about 1897 WI? The only Doers enumerated in Spokane County was the family of John C born about 1860 WI and Alia A born abt 1866 NY, on 1910. The other children Elsie, Marion & Clover were born MN.

If that is him, the name's DORR, and John's parents from Ireland, Michael married Kathryn 1855 NY per familysearch.org, and John born 1859 Janesville, Rock, WI.

No heck that Roy would be TOO old. We need more info.

Answer 3

Rose,
I found a Roy Dorr b. abt 1925 in the 1930 Census living in Chico, CA. His parents were Fetzer S. & Marjorie Frary Dorr.
Marjorie's parents are living with them. Could this be him?

Anita

PS, I found a birth record for Roy Everett Dorr.
If this is your Dad let me know & I will email you the record thru Yahoo Answers.

Answer 4

All the answers should provide you some help, but you should also know that late-onset Alzheimer's may--or may not be--inherited, and that authorities suggest that the only healthy individuals who should be tested for Alzheimer's are those with relatives who have early-onset Alzheimer's (before age 70).

For example, my mother, the youngest in a family of five siblings, at age 81, is in the second stage of Alzheimer's, but none of her three brothers and sisters developed the disease until her oldest brother, aged 91, started showing signs of it in the past year. Two of them, however, died from cancer in their early 70s, and her father died from a heart attack at age 64, so knowing a family's mortality history may or may not be much help. Sometimes head injuries cause Alzheimer's.

The following link advises against genetic testing in healthy people accept for those whose relatives have early onset Alzheimer's, but it also provides information about the test as well:

http://www.genetichealth.com/ALZ_Genetics_Testing_In_Healthy_People.shtml

Answer 5

You don't give any age for your dad, and how sad that he has succumbed to this terrible illness, here in England we call it the long goodbye disease, my friends mum has it and it breaks my heart to see her like that, she was always known to me as "aunt" I have known my friend, and her parents all my life. Any way I don't know whether this information will help at all but it wont do any harm to check to see if your dad is on there.
https://www.quickbase.com/db/7c2gsmqv?a=q&qid=60
I am sorry I cant be of any further help to you, give your dad a hug from me please and these are for him as well xx

Answer 6

Adoptee's & Birth Parents message boards
and other help
http://www.voy.com/48081/

http://www.adopteephotoregistry.com/

http://www.the-seeker.com/adopteesissues.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Pieces-Parents-Children-Guidebook/dp/078842534X

http://www.omnitrace.com/Birth-Family.html

http://www.search-line.co.uk/

http://www.enotalone.com/article/10078.html