Discover the real-life accounts of Joseph Culligan fans.  Read all about their heartwarming reunions in this small sampling of the thousands of grateful letters Mr. Culligan receives on a regular basis.

Letter #1 Dear Mr. Culligan, In 1994 I sent for your book, "You Too Can Find Anyone."  With a simple letter to the Social Security Missing Persons Department, my husband found his mother.  We mailed the letter in January, 1994 and by April, 1994 my husband received a call from a sister that he did not even know he had.  My husband turned 50 the next month on May 9th and he had not seen his mother since he was 2 years old and his little sister was a few months old.  My husband and I flew to Louisiana from California on the weekend of his birthday and Mother's day to meet his mom and sister.  It was a beautiful reunion and they still have a wonderful relationship.  We have been to visit my husband's mother 3 times and they talk on the phone frequently.  Ironically, when we found his mother in Louisiana. his little sister had just moved to Louisiana the year before and only lived a few hours away by car.  Now my husband does not have to go through life anymore wondering about the mother who gave him life.  He does not hold anything against her for leaving him because he understands that she was just a 16 year old kid at the time.  Thank you Joseph Culligan for your part in this happy reunion.  We saw you on the Oprah show and ordered your book through her show. GRR California

 

Letter #2 Dear Mr. Culligan, I recently purchased your book "You, Too, Can Find Anybody" in hope of finding my older brother "Scott" whom I had not seen nor heard from in 15 years.  I am writing to tell you of my happy results and to thank you.  On my first attempt I received results.  I had a feeling Scott was in Southern California.  I wrote the DMV and they sent me a form to fill out with a letter to Scott.  They sent the letter to Scott and lo and behold, he called me!  It was wonderful!! Thank you Mr. Culligan. your book was easy to read and understand.  The step by step instructions were so simple and easy. Again, thank you! LG Arizona

 

Letter #3 Dear Mr. Culligan, Thanks to your book "You, Too, Can Find Anybody," I was amazed how easy it was for me to find my two brothers.  I live in California and they live in New York.  I am 37 years old and they are 39 and 40 years old.  We have the same father, different mothers.  Simply requesting a DMV record, then with the help of another telephone operator I was speaking to my brothers on the phone.  They did not know they had a sister.  Needless to say, they were shocked.  I'm not sure of our outcome together but remain patient and hopeful, all thanks to you. Sincerely, LR California

 

Letter #4 To Joe Culligan, Just a little note to express our deepest appreciation. Your expertise and dedication has changed my life.  I feel as if I were reborn. You are a sparkling gem.  There aren't enough words to make you understand how we feel about you.  My family is now enjoying the bond that we've missed for sooo many years, and it's all due to you and the Gordon Elliot staff.  God Bless you and your family. You'll always be in our hearts, soul, and prayers. Love Always, MC

 

Letter #5 Dear Mr. Culligan, My name is CL.  I wrote you a letter at the end of January.  I was looking for my father.  I just wanted to thank you so much for finding my father.  I was on the Maury Povich show and my father was there.  Finally after 31 years, I have a dad.  I can never thank you enough.  I am just so happy.  Not only now do I have my dad, I also have one sister and two brothers.  I hope this summer we can all get together for a family reunion.  God Bless You.  Now my life is complete. CL

 

Letter #6 Dear Mr. Culligan, I am writing you to give thanks for your book: "You Too Can Find Anybody." I heard about your book through the Maury Povich show and ordered it.  On my first try I was able to locate my biological father after 35 years.  I have only been trying the last 10 or 15 years.  The last really big try was a few years ago with a detective agency.  Because the fee would have been more than $500 to $1,000, I stopped.  Thanks to your book, I didn't have to spend an awful lot of money, but got good quick results for less than $40.  My father contacted me the same day that he got the letter. (I sent a letter to the Army Reserve Center (retired) and they forwarded my letter and their form on to him and myself). He has sent me some pictures and I have also sent him some.  The nice thing about the whole thing is that he's always been thinking about me.  I hope and pray that everyone who gets your book has the same success that I had.  He is planning a family reunion next year.  So hopefully I'll get to meet my extended family.  Plus in addition to me, he gets a granddaughter. God Bless You. VH Virginia

 

Letter #7 Dear Mr. Culligan, I wanted to write this letter and let you know that because of your book "You, Too, Can Find Anybody," you have helped me find my step-sister that I have not seen for 31 years and also reunited my sister and her father that she has not seen for 20 years.  I started working on this about 3 months ago, starting with her Birth Certificate, then I started looking for other family members, getting their phone numbers and addresses and then started calling.  Well, I found her living in Virginia.  I called her father (which is my step-father) to let him know that I had found her and made the call to her.  What a day that was.  I don't think any of us will ever forget May 1st.  This is just part of the story.  It would take 4 more pages just to let you what all your book has done.  I also purchased your book "When In Doubt Check Him Out" and finding out that I am enjoying it just as much.  Thank you for your book and I hope it works just as well for other people as it did for me. Sincerely yours, CK

 

Letter #8 Dear Mr. Culligan, I would like to sincerely thank you for your assistance in locating my uncle who had been missing for 30 years. Without your help, the search would have continued for quite some time.  He has again made contact with his family and he informed me that my intervention most likely saved his life.  Again, I truly thank you. Sincerely, MW California

 

Letter #9 Dear Mr. Culligan, I do not have a story dramatic enough for television.  So this is a simple letter of thanks.  Your book, "You, Too, Can Find Anybody" helped me locate in two weeks someone I had been trying to find for two years.  Finding them saved me a bunch of time and money.  A couple of years ago, when interest rates were down, I refinanced my home which I had bought in 1975.  The lawyer handling the transaction discovered that a second mortgage, given to me by the seller and paid off in 1978, was still on the books in the county court house.  This would have to be cleared up by the person who gave me the loan.  She had lived in Alabama at the time of my last contact, but was no longer there this many years later.  The lawyer said it would cost me $1000 to $2000 to get a private detective to find her or for the court procedures to declare the debt clear if she could not be found.  The original loan was only $2500, so I began to look for an alternative.  I called Books-a-Million in Alabama and they recommended your book.  Since the only information I had was her name and her ex-husband's name, I was not at all sure this search would be successful. I began my search on July 10th.  Thanks to your clear and accurate information, I talked to the woman I was looking for on July 29th, in spite of the fact that she had a different last name and lived in a different city.  She is sending the documentation I need to clear up the debt.  If you want to know the process I followed, read on. If not, skip to the next paragraph.  I did have a little assistance from luck and from the fact that we southerners move around less than other people.  In addition to the names, I thought they had been divorced shortly before she sold the house.  Following your information, I checked this county in the hope the divorce was local.  It was.  In that record, I found they were also married in this county, so I looked up the marriage record.  And there were both of their birthdates.  On to the Department of Motor Vehicles.  They had a recent address on him, but nothing on her under her former name.  I could find no telephone listing for him, so I sent a letter explaining what I needed and asking if he could help me get in touch with her.  I enclosed a self-addressed envelope in the hope it would encourage a response.  In less than a week I got an answer with her new name, last known address and phone number.  And there she was!! I must admit that, even though you are the one that gave me the needed formula, I feel terribly clever solving this one without the lawyers.  There has always been a frustrated private detective inside me, and the whole procedure was great fun.  Let's see.  Who can I look for next? So that's the story.  Not as dramatic as a long-lost child, or parent, or love, but certainly an important find for me, my wallet and my peace of mind. Thanks again for this extremely helpful book.  Without it I would have had to just pay the lawyers and the court to get the title clear.  Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sincerely, DM Alabama

 

Letter #10 Dear Mr. Culligan, I recently bought your book, "You, Too, Can Find Anybody."  I saw you on the Gordon Elliot show.  Well, I found my birth mother and my younger brother. The reason I am writing is, I wanted to thank you for making it possible to locate my family. Sincerely, VB California

 

Letter #11 Dear Joseph Culligan, I have been searching for my lost sister and natural parents all my life.  I was adopted in 1969.  I saw you on a T.V. show telling about your book "You, Too, Can Find Anyone."  My wife and I decided to order the book.  We received it and that day we sent my natural father's name to a company in Florida.  This past Friday we received 6 names, and the first one we called was my father.  The next day we located my sister and natural mother.  I wish I could thank you in person for your book and what you have done.  Thank you so much. Sincerely yours, TW P.S. The total cost was $40.

 

Letter #12 Dear Mr. Culligan, I am writing at this time to thank you very much for all your help.  I saw you one day on a talk show.  It was about finding lost family members due to adoption.  I wrote you asking for your help, and you offered your book, "You, Too, Can Find Anybody."  I am very happy to tell you, it worked! Using "your" book, I was able to locate my birth mother whom I had no clue who she was prior to reading your book.  I can't begin to thank you enough.  I must say I was a little apprehensive at first.  I thought this wouldn't work for me due to my being incarcerated.  I was wrong.  I am now in the process of building a new relationship with my mother and a brother! Thank you again for all your help. Sincerely, MC Correctional Facility

 

Letter #13 Dear Mr. Culligan, I just wanted to be able to "Thank You" for your wonderful book which after reading I found my father who had been missing for more than 45 years. He disappeared in the middle of one of our worst snowstorms of the season, leaving my mother with me and 8 1/2 months pregnant.  She had a warrant out for his arrest for nearly 20 years and he was never found through the F.B.I. Following your instructions, I found him in a Veterans Medical Center at 73 years old, and after having had both legs removed due to radiation exposure during WWII.  We have many similar interests and could be twins if he were younger or I was older.  I have terminal cancer and really needed to find him before I died. Thank you, Mr. Culligan, for your book without which I would have never fulfilled one of my dreams. Yours truly, JG Michigan

 

Letter #14 Dear Mr. Culligan, I never believed serendipity would be a part of my life until it actually happened. The story starts with . . . the "lunch hour." I usually take a mid-day break for lunch, errands, etc. around 11:30 a.m. each day.  Rarely do I go home and watch the television while munching on a "quick-wich."  However, one day, about two weeks ago, I left work much later than usual, went home and prepared a quick something to eat, turned on the television and readied myself for a short but relaxing lunch hour while being entertained by one of those "Talk Shows." I was watching the Donahue show and you were on.  I had not seen, nor spoken with my sister, whom is my elder by 10 months, since September of 1978.  You said on the show that "I, too, could find anybody."  Well, I believed it to be God's intervention that the coincidences of the day were too obvious for me to do anything but act on finding my sister, and I meant right now.  I finished my quick-wich, turned off the T.V., gave my precious dog a doggie treat and left for the book store.  On March 22nd I bought the book.  I read the first part and put the book down wondering, how much, how long, and what is the catch to the amount of effort I must put out to accomplish such a difficult task of which I've had no luck before.  On March 29th I wrote 3 letters.  One to the county records department, another to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and the third to the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.  Much to my surprise, on April 6th I received a letter from the county clerk showing record of a name change way back in 1987, and some sort of legal release form, etc.  At 5:30 p.m. CST, I called the custody referee identified on the circuit court document and left a message for the attorney identified on the name change document.  I received a return call from the lawyer on April 7th.  He said he remembered my sister and would get "word out on the street" that I was looking for her.  "Word out on the street?"  Whoa!  What in the world does that mean? On the same day I received information from the second letter written to the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator, RM 354.  My sister was released from the Community Corrections Center on 1/15/88.  I also received information from the Motor Vehicle Department that she had no record of having a driver's license. Hmmm. On April the 8th I received a call from the lawyer at 4:30 p.m. my time.  Now my heart is going about a hundred miles an hour.  Believe it or not, in less than 48 hours from then I was given information on how to directly call my long-lost sister and make whole a part of my life I never, never intended to be together again. Moments later, after gaining a little composure I sat down in the same chair this whole thing started with and called my sister via a phone from, now get this, her next door neighbor . . . Just think of it, I sat down in the very same chair this whole crazy thing started with and talked with my sister . . . my older sister . . . the one everyone thought was lost . . . but now is found.  Thank you! . . . Thank God. Whew ! ! ! Yes, I will be visiting my sister in the very near future.  Yes, our mother thought she'd died and gone to heaven.  And yes, my sister's favorite uncle is now aware of where and how his favorite niece is.  The rest of the story is yet to be written. What makes things come together?  Why does it happen when it does?  Are people just now finding those they'd thought are un-find-able?  Who cares!  All I know is that if you do all or at least some of the things the motivationalists say . . . things happen! Serendipity, according to Noah Webster, means "The faculty of discovering desirable or valuable things accidentally or unexpectedly."  Thank you very much for being so successful that what you do qualifies for the Talk Show industry and even gets through to people like me, the kind that do many things during ... the "lunch hour." Sincerely, RB Texas

 

Letter #15 Dear Mr. Culligan, This letter is to inform you that I have just purchased your book "When In Doubt Check Him Out" and I find it extremely useful.  After 20 years of law enforcement, I have decided to go into my own private investigative business. Which leads me to ask you one question.  I would like to know if you could provide me with the address of the National Association of Investigative Specialists so that I might obtain membership.  Keep writing those books, they are very helpful in my new career.  Thank you again for any help you may have to offer. Sincerely, MM Florida

 

Letter #16 Dear Mr. Joseph Culligan, I am writing you this letter to inform you that we ordered the book "You, Too, Can Find Anybody" after my husband saw you on The Maury Povich show.  The book has been the best help we've had since his ex-wife disappeared with his daughter 25 years ago.  He has been looking for her all these years with no luck. We, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so very much, because we finally found his daughter after 25 years.  I've called her house and I first spoke to her husband and twice to her.  My only regret is that after all these years, she wrote me a very short letter telling me that she would rather keep things the way they've been.  She wants nothing to do with her father as well as her brother who is 34 years old.  I've seen talk shows on T.V. and read in the papers of family reunions after so many years.  The tears, the joy, the hugging, and when we found her, well, we hugged and cried because our thrill was seeing her again, until I got her letter.  My husband and my stepson are very sad and hurt for her rejecting them.  But we are not giving up, we will continue trying.  I would like to order your other book titled "Requirements To Become A P.I." and your video "You, Too, Can Find Anybody."  Please send information as to how I can order them. Again, on behalf of my husband and my stepson, we thank you. Sincerely, LR California

 

Letter #17 Dear Mr. Culligan, I purchased your book "You, Too, Can Find Anybody" about a year ago.  I would like to take a few minutes to thank you for putting together such a wonderful book.  I am employed as an investigator for the Public Defender's Office.  Your book has proved helpful on different cases that I have had.  I have been investigating felony cases for the past five years and learned early that you need every edge that you can get.  My personal experience has been that making contacts and leaving a good impression on someone will ensure success in the future, something that you stressed in your book.  Again, thank you for making my life just a little bit easier and keep up the good work. Sincerely, PD Massachusetts

 

Letter #18 Dear Mr. Culligan, I bought a copy of your book "You, Too, Can Find Anybody" after seeing you on a talk show.  I am happy to tell you that this book is great!  I found my dad after 26 years of not knowing him.  My dad is too shy to have been brought out on a talk show so I am glad that I put my love, time and effort into finding him myself.  We are now learning how to fill the 26 year gap. But it has been a great adventure.  Besides finding my dad, I have used your book for doing genealogy work too.  I, for the first time, have a blood family. Thank you fondly, MH Missouri