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OmniTrace Private Investigator Reveals Search Methods
Here is a post about OmniTrace search methods from our youngest and perhaps most enthusiastic OmniTrace Private Investigator:
By Rachel Weiss
Hello my name is Rachel Weiss, and I am originally from Boston, Massachusetts, the home of the Boston Red Sox. I come from a family that is made up of a set of fraternal twins, whom are my brother and sister, my mother and father, and me. I recently graduated last year from college with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Psychology. In my spare time I love to enjoy the outdoors, whether it is going to the beach, or just being outside walking around somewhere. A big part of me is definitely still a homebody, and I love spending time with my family as much as I can.
One of the things I love about my job is using search methods to reunite people with their lost loves, long lost family members or friends, which is very rewarding. For as long as I can remember I have loved helping people in every way that I possibly can. I currently work at OmniTrace as one of the Private Investigators that does research on the many different searches we receive. Here is one of them and the search methods I used:
Locating a lost love you were once involved is definitely a heart felt process.
One specific case was near and dear to my heart. On the 30thday of March a man named Steve (we’ll protect Steve’s confidentiality by not providing his last name) called and spoke with Barbara, one of our search consultants here at Omnitrace. Barbara took down all the essential information that Steve had on the lost love that he was searching for. This information included the first and last name of the women, and a possible date of birth that he thought belonged to her. Another key piece of information that was given for the women was a last known partial address (in New York State) where she once lived in the year 1967. There were two other key pieces of information that Steve provided to Barbara: the names of the women’s father and sister. (The first name of Steve’s lost love is Tanya. We’ll protect Tanya’s confidentiality by not providing her last name.)
Barbara then provided me the details of this new search. The first step I took in this search was to locate all the Tanyas, nationwide that happened to be in the age range that Steve provided to us, which was 1942-1945. This in turn allowed me to correlate a list of all Tanyas in that age range nationwide. I located all current whereabouts of these Tanyas and made contact with all of them. I discovered that none of these women were the correct Tanya, which allowed me to eliminate all of them and move on with my search.
The next step I took in this search was to locate all Vincent ______nationwide, since that was the name that Steve gave Barbara for Tanya’s father. So, I located only one Vincent _______that had connections to New York, and he had unfortunately passed away. However, I was able to locate a relative of his, and made contact with this person.
A few days went by and I received a call back from the relative of the Vincent that I located. I spoke with him on the phone for quiet a few minutes and I told him who I was looking for, and I confirmed with him that he was indeed the brother of Tanya that I had been looking for. I asked the brother to have Tanya please get in contact with me so that I can speak with her myself and figure out if she would like contact with my client. This is usually the correct protocol that we take when we have a client that is searching for an old girlfriend and/or old boyfriend.
The next day I received a call from Tanya herself, whom is the subject that I have been searching for. I spoke with her for awhile on the phone and she told me she actually was hoping that the person that was looking for her was indeed our client. So once it was confirmed that I located the correct person, I got in contact with the Steve, and shared the great news with him and he was so happy!
After speaking on the phone with Tanya, Steve called me to give me an update to let me know how things were going, and he told me that Tanya sent him some pictures over email. He then emailed me an update, and stated that “you have started me on an adventure which may never end, and I thank you for your efficiency in finding her. I will play it out to the best of my ability, and will keep you informed”.
A few days after that first email Steve sent another email to update me on how things were going with Toya and himself. The client said, “My relationship w/ Tanya has gotten very warm. I don’t know where this could ever go since I am married. I have no choice but to follow the path, I respect & love her terribly & we retrieved so much time of so long ago. An amazing experience. We never forgot that long ago time. Thank you for finding her. She is a terrific person.”
I did receive one last email from Steve a week after the other two emails, and it was a little disappointing to hear but understandable.
“It seems I became a bit passionate” which Tanya said, “I appreciate your passion re: our relationship,” then morphed into the fact that I made her uncomfortable, since I as a writer waxed poetic which is my way. “For me it means termination, which was my response. Thanks for all you did in finding her. I no longer wish to communicate with her, & her last e-mail was cutting. On to better things. It was a 42 yr. odyssey.”
So overall, the search methods I used for Steve’s lost love were successful and it left the client with both happiness and sadness at the same time. This does happen quiet often with searches, that the client is searching for a long lost love from many years ago, as the client never knows where the other person is in their life right now which is sometimes disappointing.
Please leave a comment if you have any questions about the search methods used to reunite Steve and Tanya.
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