Our OmniTrace staff is diligently working every day to successfully resolve all our cases.  We’ve been happily doing this since 2001.  We have a toll free customer service line and are answering calls 9 – 5 Eastern time. 1-888-965-6696.  If all our lines are busy and you have to leave a voice mail, have no fear.  We will call you back promptly!

You might like to have a look at a list of our OmniTrace Corporate Clientele:

• Pfizer
• YMCA
• University of North Carolina
• Teamsters Union
• Concordia University
• Law Offices of Brown & Crouppen
• Law Offices of Kenneth Schuster
• Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs
• US Bank
• Jackson Memorial Hospital
• CBS Production Studios
• Spring Industries
• US Food Service

The above list is quite incomplete.  We work with many other Fortune 500 firms, attorneys, businesses and universities.

OmniTrace Credentials:

• Licensed Florida Private Investigation Agency (License #A2200304)
• Member Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI)
• Member National Association of Investigative Specialists (NAIS)
• Member Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)

If you are ever in South East Florida, come visit us at our offices in Delray Beach, Florida.  Call for directions.

OmniTrace is a Licensed and Bonded Private Investigation Agency specializing in finding missing people, adoptees and birth parents all over the world. 

OmniTrace is a member of:

• The National Association Of Investigative Specialists
• The Association Of Professional Genealogists

OmniTrace estimates that we have reunited more birth parents and adoptees than all other search companies, private investigators and TV shows combined.  Please read some of our testimonials here:  OmniTrace Testimonials

To learn even more about OmniTrace, please check out our 4 Star reviews on Trustlink, a subsidiary of the BBB, and Insider Pages! 

Our client list consists of Fortune 500 companies such as Pfizer, schools such as the University of North Carolina, organizations such as the Teamsters Negotiated Pension Plan, attorneys from coast to coast and the general public.

For your entertainment pleasure (and because we love to toot our own horn!), here are a few recent testimonials your favorite people search company would like to share with you:

Julie,

You are the person that called me to tell what info you and OmniTrace found. If you could also pass this email to Sari, I would appreciate it.

I just wanted you to know that I wrote to Dominick.  I wrote him a lengthy letter pouring my heart out about my medical condition and other things. I received a call from him last night and he is the correct person. He is the brother of my biological father, Alfonso.  We spoke for awhile and he was so easy to talk to.

Thank you!

Kathy

Chris,

Everything has gone great. I have been in contact with a ton of extended family members and have met online my half brothers, cousins, etc.  I have spoken to Marilyn a number of times on the phone, and she has even communicated with my mother.

It has been a wild ride, and I guess we are going to try to meet sometime in the future. We have exchanged pictures, emials, etc.. and it is going very well.  Thanks for all of the help and follow up that you and OmniTrace provided.

Brad

Dear OmniTrace,

I wanted to thank you for your HUGE part in helping me find a new part of my family! Everything has gone very well!  I have spoken with and met my birth mother and we are so happy to be able to get to know each other.  I wanted to apologize for taking so long to get back to you. I kind of forgot.

Thank you again!

Carrie

Hi Chris,

Yes, Sunday afternoon I was able to have quiet time to make a call to Barbara in Edmonton.  She was delighted.  Her husband, my birth mom’s brother is suffering from cancer.  On the 9th November 1995 my birth mom, Barbara (they called her Bobbie)passed away of cancer at 57.

She was telling me so many names, ages and locations of the siblings and they’d “have to get a hall” if I came to Edmonton to meet them because there were so many.  WOW!

I gave her my name, address and phone number. She was excited our clocks were the same time. Barbara wasn’t quite sure where Idaho was however, she was going to look on a map.

She is going to send me a picture of the family and share my name and information with Bobbie’s sisters.  One was especially close to my birth mom.  I’m going to write and send some pictures.

 I asked about my 3 half brothers but she didn’t have much information other than they were in the Edmonton area. I got the impression they didn’t have too much contact.

Chris, is there a way to find out more about them like phone numbers and/or addresses or what happened to Paul, my birth father?  I forgot to ask Barbara about him.  Seems everyone left the farms around Quinton Saskatchewan.

Your phone call one week ago was a marvelous blessing to lots of unanswered questions for this lady who never felt quite complete.  Something was missing in the story of Joni’s dash and now I found the part.

Kind Regards,

Joni

If you are visiting Florida (or are a Florida resident), please come to our OmniTrace complex and meet with our search consultants and research staff.  We’d appreciate if you call for an appointment so we can set some time aside for you.

OmniTrace Corp.
200 Congress Park Drive
Suite 206
Delray Beach, FL 33445
Phone: 888-965-6696
Fax: 561-470-8905
info@omnitrace.com

The Assembly Human Service Committee unanimously approved a bill that has now been moved to the full Assembly for a vote.

This open records bill–The Adoptees’ Birthright Bill–will give adult adoptees, adoptive parents of a minor or relatives of a deceased adoptee access to original birth certificates.  These records contain the names of the birth mother and child at the time of the birth, as well as other identifying information. 

Some birth parents might not want to be identified or found, so the bill gives them a year to ask the state of New Jersey to remove their names and identifying information from the birth certificates. 

For future adoptions, birth parents will have the option of not being contacted, however, the state will still have to provide the redacted birth certificates and a contact preference form.  The birth parents, if they wish no contact, will also have to provide some family background information including medical information. 

This bill to open adoption records in New Jersey is not perfect.  But OmniTrace believes it does a good job of balancing the rights of birth mothers and adult adoptees seeking their birth family or medical records. 

One caveat:  obtaining your original birth certificate will only be the start of your search.  What you will have, in most instances, is your birth mother’s maiden name and her address at the time of your birth.  OmniTrace can help you with determining your birth mother’s current name, any possible birth siblings and current address information on your family members.

Please write us if you have any questions.  You can also call us toll free at 1-888-965-6696.  Please visit our blog frequently for updates on legislation concerning New Jersey Open Adoption Records.

• When was the adoptee born?
• Where was the adoptee born?
• When and where did the adoption take place?
• Was the adoption done through an adoption agency?
• Was the adoptee born in a hospital?
• Which hospital?
• Any name info on the birth mother (adoption searching for birth mother)?
• Any name info on the adopting parents (adoption searching for adoptee)?

Of course, for most adoption searching cases, we usually begin with only a few of the above questions answered.

Below are just some of the steps OmniTrace takes for each case:

• Interview any available persons involved with the adoption
• Contact local adoption searching experts
• Research birth indexes
• Research legal notices and birth announcements where the adoption took place
• Research hospital medical, nursery and billing records
• Request non-identifying information
• Identify and find any involved attorneys
• Identify and find the delivery physician
• Search court minutes in county of adoption
• Research marriage announcements in county of adoption
• Research church records in county of adoption
• Research census and genealogy databases
• Research school yearbooks
• Research old city and phone directories
• Research voter records
• Research postal records
• Contact County Clerk, City Clerk, Tax Assessor and Chamber of Commerce
• Work with reference library in county of adoption
• Request official records under the Freedom Of Information Act
• Use additional proprietary resources

In addition to the more aggressive approaches to adoption searching listed above, we use some  passive techniques such as searching and placing our clients on the major reunion registries (please read: What Is A Reunion Registry).

Please email us or call us toll free at 1-888-965-6696 if you have any questions about adoption searching.

When you request OmniTrace to conduct your biological family search, here’s what we will make every attempt to provide you:

• The name of your biological mother
• The name of your biological father
• The names of your biological siblings and any additional family relatives (e.g., grandparents, aunts, uncles)
• Non-identifying information and identifying information covering the background history of your adoption  (In other words, what the heck happened when you were born.)
• Any available medical records on your biological mother (when records have not been destroyed)
• Background and genealogical history on your biological family members
• The current addresses and phone numbers of all biological family members that we identify.

Complete the simple form on THIS PAGE and start your biological family search now!

Colorado native, Ray Martinez, writes about living in an orphanage, being adopted and much later in life, finding his birth mother.  The complete story appears in “Mom:  A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps” (The Penguin Press, $21.95).  Ray is a former mayor of Fort Collins.  He now heads business development and public relations for Information Technology eXperts Inc.

“I was raised in the Colorado State Children’s Home in Denver. They kept kids from infancy to age eighteen or nineteen years old. I was there from infancy to age five. I remember that the orphanage had this practice where they would allow potential parents to check you out like a library book: they could borrow you for a couple of weeks, take you home, and see if you were a fit for their family.

A couple of times I remember riding in the car, leaving the orphanage with potential parents, and them just trying to make me happy and make me laugh, and me sitting in the front in these little booster seats cars had back then in the fifties. But I never remember…”

You can read the complete article in the Denver Post.  Please share your thoughts with us.

To whom it may concern,

I am a small business owner in the asset recovery sector.  Our company helps find people that are legitimately owed money primarily from government agencies and we recovery the funds on their behalf.  One of the challenges in our line of work is locating the whereabouts of the claimant.  It was with great satisfaction, that we were able to find OmniTrace.  Having compared their services with other companies in the people search business, we were able to immediately recognize that their value and services in many ways exceeded that of their competition.  I have gone on to get to know the owner Dave Betz and have found him to be equally accomplished in what he does.  He has put together the premier skip tracing and people finding company in the industry.  In our short time together, we were able to locate quite a few claimants that we more than likely would not have been able to find on our own without the resources and professionalism of OmniTrace.

It is my privilege to recommend OmniTrace and Dave Betz to help locate whoever it is that may need to be found whether an individual or a company.

Please feel free to contact me should you want further details on our experience with OmniTrace.  I can be reached directly at (888) 541-5783.

John Fox

Managing Director

Asset Recovery Inc.

(Thanks for the great review of OmnTrace John.  Best regards, Dave Betz)

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

“LATE last year, a 15-year-old boy rubbed a swab along the inside of his cheek, popped it into a vial and sent it off to an online genealogy DNA-testing service. But unlike most people who contact the service, he was not interested in sketching the far reaches of his family tree. His mother had conceived using donor sperm and he wanted to track down his genetic father.

That the boy succeeded using only the DNA test, genealogical records and some internet searches has huge implications for the hundreds of thousands of people who were conceived using donor sperm. With the explosion of information about genetic inheritance, any man who has donated sperm could potentially be found by his biological offspring. Absent and unknown fathers will also become easier to trace.

The teenager tracked down his father from his…”

You can read the rest of this article by clicking HERE.

This Friday, Dave is going to visit the station and do DNA testing on Paul, Young Ron, OMG and TOAST to determine their ancestral roots.

So, if you happen to live in South Florida, you might want to tune in.  You can keep updated on other times and dates when Dave will be on the air by visiting our FaceBook Page.

(Dave can actually be entertaining at times.  :) )

Hi all.  We just want you to know that you can learn more about our OmniTrace staff and services by visiting our Twitter and Facebook pages:

• OmniTrace On FaceBook
• OmniTrace On Twitter – Dana Betz
• OmniTrace On Twitter – Dave Betz

And if you happen to be visiting Florida (or are a Florida resident), please come and meet with us at our offices.  Take a tour of our facility and talk with our OmniTrace Search Consultants and Private Investigators.  Call us at 1-888-965-6696 or email us for directions.