My girlfriend is trying to get in touch with her mom's mom so I'm wondering what my options are besides hiring someone for it. She has checked with her relatives and there's some sort of story going on there because her one uncle knows all the details but keeps telling her to forget about it, he won't give up anything. Her mom doesn't know and her other relatives don't know much.
So far we know the woman's name, we know her ex-husband (died in 2008) and we know her phone number. We did a reverse lookup on her phone number and it came up registered to her dead husband with an address in Edmonton which is promising because Edmonton is where the funeral was for her husband, we know she's there. We had a friend go by there yesterday, buzzed the apartment number and an Asian woman answered, not her. She should be white.
My girlfriend tried calling the number multiple times and there's no voicemail message, just the standard recording saying we've reached the number and can leave a message. She has left messages with no response, nobody has ever answered the phone.
She has also called the funeral home which did the service for the husband and the woman that my girlfriend talked to was very helpful. The funeral home couldn't give out any information but did confirm there is an active address for the woman and the woman is supposed to still be living. The funeral home also sent a letter to the address through the mail with a small explanation to get in touch but heard nothing from it.
I have no idea what else to do, we signed up on ancestry.ca and traced it all the way back but that only gives information for dead relatives, it doesn't release anything for living relatives. Any other suggestions? The woman would have to be in her 90s by now, my girlfriend is 42.