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My wife and I have a friend staying with us who has no id, no birth certificate and no known living relatives. Her parents were killed in a car crash when she was 2 yrs old. Afterwards she went to live with her uncle in Dauphin Island Alabama. She attended the school there until the ninth grade. Her name is Jana Jurdan. I'm hoping a classmate or someone in that community will remember her and can give us some info about her relatives or any info at all. She was born in 1964 and would have started school around 1969. She has no internet records anywhere. She has lived off grid this entire time. She does not know her mother's maiden name. The state of Alabama will not give her a birth certificate. She has a social security number but the SS admin will not release it without a birth certificate. Legal aid attorneys are working on this case plus the salvation army. We really need info about her family. Thanks for any and all help!
Perhaps post an ad in a local newspaper where she lived with her uncle or hire a PI (if it is affordable).
Dauphin Island does not have a local newspaper, but mobil does of course. I will see about doing that. A PI would be too expensive, but we could check around.That would be the best option.
Time for a DNA test. Use Ancestry since it has the largest database.
Nothing with a search of the uncle? The school she attended?
She does not remember her Uncles last name. He was a half brother to her dad or mom and has a different last name.
The local school will not release info without an ID.
She does not remember her Uncles last name. He was a half brother to her dad or mom and has a different last name.
The local school will not release info without an ID.
Schools have yearbooks. Classmates would be listed. Many have Facebook pages for people that went there.
Is there something wrong with this woman? Can't remember her uncle's last name? Lived off the grid until age 59? Just appeared out of where? I see you didn't mention a DNA test. Why not?
She has a slight mental disorder of some type and definitely a memory problem. She suffered a head injury in the car crash, but the doctors could not find any permanent injuries. She has no police record, so she is not running from the law. I do not think dna would turn up anything and I am tire of going down rabbit holes. She has no siblings and the rest of her family was deceased before there were dna test. I think a good PI could track it all down if we can afford one.
Schools have yearbooks. Classmates would be listed. Many have Facebook pages for people that went there.
Is there something wrong with this woman? Can't remember her uncle's last name? Lived off the grid until age 59? Just appeared out of where? I see you didn't mention a DNA test. Why not?
Something doesn't smell right.
All of this does sound awfully suspicious. How long have you known her, OP? How long has she been living with you?
She has a slight mental disorder of some type and definitely a memory problem. She suffered a head injury in the car crash, but the doctors could not find any permanent injuries. She has no police record, so she is not running from the law. I do not think dna would turn up anything and I am tire of going down rabbit holes. She has no siblings and the rest of her family was deceased before there were dna test. I think a good PI could track it all down if we can afford one.
With a DNA test you would have matches among 2nd and 3rd cousins. People that may have heard the story about the 2-year-old that lost her parents in an accident, and you would be able to piece things together bit by bit. A little from one and a little from another.
You talk about a PI when DNA is only $59 for the next week. How do you think a PI would find people?
Have you searched newspaper.com for an account of the accident, a birth announcement, obituaries, funeral announcements or engagement/wedding announcement for the parents?
I would search using Jordan as well unless you are positive she is spelling her last name correctly.
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