I’m a rather messy investigator, I keep notes, and I follow what I feel. Based on material information, sure, what I saw, from interviews also.
I created an email just dedicated to my investigations. People I contact, infos I would like, people who contact me. This way I keep a trace of every people I contacted, I know who answered me, what they said, and who didn’t answer me. I have dates and hours.

I recontacted the American consulate in Bordeaux.
I contacted the French consulate in the state concerned by my search.
I contacted a Franco-American association in Bordeaux.

Meaning if I have contacts, I could meet them in two cases.

My questions were:

- How to search better in the Federal system, different from ours really more centralized.
- If it’s posible to make follow my mail by a consulate (with the infos I have and their possibilities, I think they could make follow, with or without giving me the address, a smooth and discreet way, for instance tell him he could pass by, so to speak).

What I know:

- The man I’m looking forward to contacting might be my father, or my half-brother. I have a personal belief on the matter, yet, until I talk to him, I prefer to remain cautious.

- What I know about him: His name, firstname, middle name, birthdate, where he was born, and where he lives now (the city – not the details) – I have also peripherical information, about his family, job, but I would like, really, to contact him personally.

- I have maybe another place where I could send him the letter. yet, I don’t know the exact address either. I have one address that could correspond though, but I have no idea if it’s the right person. And I don’t want to send a letter like this to just anyone. Of course, I considered I’d put the letter in another enveloppe. I suppose that in the same area, a guy with the same name is very probable, with the same middle name and age, really less. I’ll see. If I can avoid this solution…

Fox Mulder said: “Never give up on a miracle”