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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an older story from 2024, but The Atlantic did an excellent longform article on the whole story, which is frankly bonkers.

Non-paywalled link below, but basically a middle-aged married father-of-three disappeared while kayaking on a lake at night in Wisconsin. Family and LEO thought he had drowned, only to have him resurface three months later in the country of Georgia, where he had traveled to "start a new life" with a woman he met online. Quite a read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/12/wisconsin-kayaker-ryan-borgwardt-death/684631/

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Used to be quite common for men and women to do that. More difficult these days with all the spying surveillance. [/quote]

I know of a man who disappeared about 100 years ago. His son continued to look for him throughout his adult life. The son had access to resources (i.e. private investigators, etc) because he was very wealthy. I wonder if he could be found today now that so much information is on databases.[/quote]

Just go to r/genealogy.

People are uncovering all sorts of stuff about 100 years ago because when the men ran away, they usually resumed a sex life and had kids.  By process of elimination, with a DNA connection, if you know the full family that was left behind, you can conclude that so-and-so on the other side of the continent was the missing guy.

A lot of times they didn't change their names because of low risk of being found.  So there are documents available like bigamist marriage certificates, birth records, Censuses, property records, etc.

I know a lot more about my dad's died young grandparents than he did.  Because he wasn't curious and I have Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com.  I have direct quotes and pictures and other things he never had, directly from public sources that anyone can get from home now. [/quote]

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