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Trying to find my half-brother

Trying to find my half-brother

Posted: 23 Nov 2014 6:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Deckrosh
I just found my dad's marriage license from his second marriage in 1953, to my surprise, it showed that he had been married once before.
I don't know the name of his first wife, but the marriage was annulled in 1945. My half-brother, Gerald, was 7 yrs old in 1953 so that would put his birth about 1944/45.
Our fathers name - Norman Deckrosh, he was in the Navy at this time and stationed as an Armed Guard aboard merchant vessels out of New York, Norfolk and Boston (?).
I don't know if Gerald was born in the US or Europe.

Re: Trying to find my half-brother

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 9:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Try ordering his service records from the National Archives. It should show his first wife on his enlistment form or an update to his marital status somewhere.
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