WIKITREE.COM..And A Possible Lead On My Dad

so, because im starting back up into family history and family tree geneaology stuff, i looked online for all the free sites (very few out there anymore) that i could go to, and either put my family tree (as i know it) or add to it (if i already have an account there).

while i was looking, i found a NEW site...WIKITREE.com

and its kind of like a WIKIPEDIA site for your family tree. and ALLOT like the WIKIFAMILYTREE idea i had myself.

anyway, its completely free and i opened an account, and added my family as much as i can remember:

me, my mom (GAY JOANNE SUITER MANNING)
my dad (ROBERT ALAN MANNING)

my grandparents (mothers) (GERTRUDE LOUISA SUITER/WILBUR RAYMOND SUITER)
my aunt (LYNN GOMORA/DAHL)
my uncles (LEE SUITER/MICHEAL SUITER)
and as many extra relatives off of these individuals as i can place with names and dates.

and, of course i hope that someone would want to lend me some info about my dad.
ive never had a hit on him, on any other website. i never in a million years ever expected to have a hit on this one either.

but tonight. i did!
i came home from picking up my son from a weekend camping trip, and looked in my email to find a COLBY MANNING had left me a message on WIKITREE.com

"Looking for information on my grandfather,

MANNING, ROBERT ALAN (birth)23 Jan 1931 (Death)21 Jun 2008 (P) 77 96720 (Hilo, Hawaii, HI)

Wondering if this might be the same one.

Thanks

Colby"

now, whats really weird, is a few days ago i sent an email off to an individual who has an email address on the LDS site FAMILYSEARCH.ORG about this same individual. waiting a reply back.
and THIS kid comes along, asking me about the very same man im inquiring about.

and...yes theres more.

if you noted the birthdate...january 23 1930, i have suspected , because i saw a calandar a long time ago i used to have but have since lost that had a notation IN january for the name "BOB" (my dad) Birthday. i thought it was noted on the 16th. and....hes older than my mother, i never knew HOW MUCH...but my mom was born in 35, so anytime before that would make him older. EVEN 1930.

the records on FAMILYSEARCH.org say he wasnt married.
but aparently he had children, because this individual who is inquiring says hes his grandson.

could this be my half nephew?
could be.
ive asked him to share with me ANY info he has about his grandfather...so we can trade info and see if theres some kind of connection.

maybe, MAYBE...ive finally found my missing link.

out of ALL the family histories for the MANNING clan, the ONLY name i can find for anywhere within the 1930s is this man ROBERT ALLEN/ALAN MANNING who passed away in 2008 in HILO HAWAII.

if this is the link, i can finally start this side of my tree.
heres to hoping!

MICHELLE

NOTHING VENTURED-NOTHING GAINED

i have searched and searched and searched and searched for ANYTHING on my father online.

in a day and age when EVERYTHING is online weather we want it to be or not...youd think this name would show up on someones family tree. yet, with all my searches i can never find the name as his records state his name is spelled.

i do, however, find another ROBERT MANNING with the middle name not spelled : Alan, but ALLEN. on almost every search i hit.

online in FAMILYSEARCH.org THIS robert happens to be listed AND it has a name fr me to email for more info..

so..i did:

"hi, my name is Michelle Alane Manning Williamson. I was born in california in 1967, to my mother Gay Joanne Suiter, and a man I have never known by the name of Robert Alan Manning.

I don’t know if this will lead me anywhere. I have searched online, in every single site for my fathers name, and every time I do, im lead to the closest match which happens to be your Robert Allen (different spelling) Manning.

my father was born sometime in the 30s, he was a bit older than my mother who was born in 35.
he was blond, and blue eyed.
on my birth certificate it states he claimed he was born in Hong Kong, my mother said that was false and he was born in San Francisco.

he and my mother were together about 2 years before he either left us, or my mom took me away.
we lived in Van Nuys California.
I was given the middle name Alane as a homage for my fathers middle name Alan. could have been Allen. id probably still be Alane. just with 2 “L”s instead.

after 1969 I have no idea what ever became of him, or who he was with, or if there are any other children after me.

my mother told me, and this doesn’t mean its true, that his mother was married several times, and his father was military and supposedly killed himself in texas(?).
he supposedly has a half brother named Jessie/Jessy/ Jesse.

you’re the ONLY name I can resource as being the one to ask about this man. he comes up on no other family tree anywhere else, unless the same tree is on other sites, but this man you have listed is the ONLY name I find even remotely close to being MY dad.

id SO love to able to fill my family tree out with names, of my relatives on his side of the tree, looks pretty blank when theres just one lowly leaf there

MICHELLE MANNING WILLIAMSON"

sent it of, now well just wait for some reply (if any)

MICHELLE