Finding German birth father who emigrated to Canada? I was adopted in 1961. I think that my birth father was born in Germany and was around 19-20 years old when he emigrated to Canada and met my birth mother. They didn't marry and she later returned to the UK. I have been reunited with her but my birth father is a complete mystery. He was in Cambridge, Ontario at the time of my conception and I was told he had emigrated to Canada. A recent search of marriage records in Ontario shows no marriage has taken place there. I'm going to try a search to find evidence of his birth in Germany. Can anyone suggest where to search for evidence of his birth with the very scanty information I have or are emigration records a possibility and if so where would I start?

Given the timeframe (circa 1960), a lot of Canadian records will still be closed. And directories and newspapers are just beginning to be digitized. You may need to contact the Waterloo County archives or a private researcher to search for you. The one Ancestry database that might help is Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980, **assuming** your father naturalized.

German records also have long privacy periods. That has been addressed by other questions here.