The Search Advisor

Troy Dunn - The Locator 

Callers and visitors to our OmniTrace web site have been saying that Troy Dunn - The Locator was on Dr. Phil yesterday. 

Troy Dunn - The Locator has been in the business of reuniting birth parents and adoptee (s) for about twenty years.  As a matter of fact, he helped his own mom, Katie Dunn an adoptee, find her birth mother.  What could be better than that?

After helping his mom find her birth mother, Troy Dunn decided to dedicate his time, his resources and his life to reuniting birth family members all over the world.  Even Troy’s mother is now an adoption search specialist!  According to Troy, he has helped reunite thousands of families!  Literally millions of people have witnessed Troy Dunn conduct reunions between birth parents and adopees on TV. 

Troy Dunn has a new adoption reunion show–The Locator–on the WE Channel which premiered Sept. 6, 2008.  You can catch it on

Search For People 

A while back, we wrote a post on how to search for people with free help from the city clerk’s office.  You can read that post here:  City Clerk’s Office Can Help You Find People.

When you search for people and you know the county where they reside, the county clerk’s office is another great free resource.  Here is a nice website to help you find any county in the USA:  NACO - Find A County.

An easy way to find the address and phone number of a particular county clerk is to

Here are some thank you letters from our clients to  OmniTrace Private Investigators — Sari, Julie, Tatiana and Chris.

To all of you angels at Omnitrace, I want to express my deepest gratitude to you for locating my biological son.  My son was born in 1968.  I was 17 (just out of high school) when he was conceived and 18 when he was born.  I was unmarried and never told his birth father or my parents that I was pregnant and moved to Los Angeles from Montana where he was born and adopted in a private adoption.  Giving him up was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my 58 years of life so far.  Before the nurses took him away from the delivery room, they offered for me

Searching For Someone 

Have you been searching for someone without success?  Perhaps you are considering using the services of a professional search company, such as OmniTrace.  

We first suggest that you visit the many search pages on this website.  We have compiled hundreds of free investigative tools and links that may allow you to find the one you seek.  To get you started searching for someone, click here:

Searching For Someone

If you require additional assistance in searching for someone, please fill out the following form: 

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You will first receive a FREE and FRIENDLY search consultation from one of our search advisors: Peggy, Sharla, Sheila, Michelle, Barbara, Tatiana and Diane.

Birth Mother Search

By Chris Maione - OmniTrace Research Department Manager

Our OmniTrace research team accesses multiple resources when we search for a birth mother.  The more information we can develop on the birth mother, the better our chance of finding her and other birth family members. 

Here’s a recent case where our client requested that we conduct a birth mother search on his behalf…

Our client was born on the east coast.  One of our OmniTrace contacts–a genealogist– (source #1), was able to uncover the birth mother’s maiden name, age (born in the early 1930’s), and the town she was