Hey commasense, if you’re interested, his name has already been ‘published’ on this thread.
From post #152:
D’oh!
Okay, I’ve checked, and our friend has kept his nose clean as far as the U.S. civil, criminal, appellate, and bankruptcy courts are concerned. No matching records found on Ivens, Donald, or Ivens, Donald Eugene.
He certainly isn’t making this easy, is he? I mean, what kind of recluse has never sued, been sued, or declared bankruptcy? It’s bizarre!
So that does not include state or municipal courts?
When remodeling my grandmother’s house, I ran into such a pile of old blades. I used a very small prybar with a sharp, wide blade (made for removing trimwork), to rake them onto a dustpan. It worked quite well. Then I laid the prybar on the framework, and put up the new sheetrock.
:smack:
Yes. PACER only covers Federal district, appellate, and bankruptcy courts.
Maybe you know of a journalist in the area, somehow I think that this would make quite a good story.
I trust that if there was news, it’d be here, but I’m popping in to say that there’s a similar story on the radio here. Woman’s wallet returned after 60 years. I haven’t heard the details yet.
My father in law is a PI, but I’m afraid he works only in PA (and Ohio).
I’ll run this by him, and see if he’s got any ideas though.
Just needed to subscribe…
That story just reached Norway (link to norwegian news ). The story doesn’t say how they found the woman though (link to english text ). A construction worker found the wallet in the pipes of the school the woman attended some 60 years ago.
So stories about returning wallets are definitely news-worthy.
OK, been a while since I’ve posted. Not much news, and none of it particularly good.
Contacted veteransearch.com, gave them his full info from his honorable discharge card. They came back with an old adress in Bell Gardens, CA, but say they can’t get in touch with him.
Also posted on Craigs List. Got some interest and helpful searches, but they all turned up the same stones we’ve already looked under.
LA Times never got back to me, but I’ll try them again tomorrow. Will also give local TV news a holler. But I think it’s more newsworthy once the person has been found. Not sure the paper/tv want to do the actual legwork on this kind of stuff.
filmyak,
I sure admire you for your perciverance on this thing, even if you don’t find the guy, you’ve given it a hell of a try.
I agree.
Filmyak… you’ve accomplished more than you know. This drama has encouraged me to seek out, locate and contact an old friend whom I hadn’t seen or heard from in 37 years. As your quest unfolded, it revealed to me several very powerful tools and methods of finding people, most of which I had been unaware of. (Someone in that grammar thread discussing terminal prepositions is loving me right now)
Anyway, she was 17 and I a bit older, but we’ve begun an interstate colloquy, exchanging memories of long-passed dogs and rollerskating along the strand, braving the storm at the end of the pier, and bonfires on the beach.
Donald Eugene Ivens may never know of or appreciate your efforts here, but the rest of us do, and I, for one, owe you a major high-five.
Strike that last “of” and you’ll be ok. 
I don’t think so. I’d say move the last “of” to before “most.”
“Of most of which” ? I don’t think so.
Hmm, the construction may be a bit clumsy, but it strikes me as grammatically correct. You do need all ofs.
Yep. Look at it this way: take out the “most of.”
“Wrong*”
“It revealed to me several very powerful tools…which I had been unaware of.”
“Right”
“It revealed to me several very powerful tools…of which I had been unaware.”
The “of” in “most of” is pointing to “which,” not to “been aware” and can’t be made to do double duty. IMHO.
*I’m not one of the grammar Nazis who gets all worked up about terminal prepositions, although I do think they sound awkward and should be avoided where possible.
That’s better. Carry on.