Originally Posted by Rochard

My father died when I was nine months old, but left behind a lot of family secrets. At age 25 I discovered I had a brother no one had told me about and set out to find him. This was in the early 1990s. This was, of course, before the Internet. I read a book called "You too can find anyone" or something like that and one of the sources they listed was a Israeli company in Florida. For $39 they will give you all the information they had on a person. I sent off a check for $39 and got a huge box back with complete bank statements and phone records. It was rather scary.

I can only imagine what they have today.