WASHINGTON, Mo. (AP) — After 18 years of searching for lost relatives, a Missouri man has found his half-brother, who turned out to be just 80 miles away.

Late last year about Don Schroeder’s search for his birth father, James White. With help from an analyst at the National Personnel Records Center, he learned that James Carl White died of a heart attack at age 54 in 1989, in Colorado.

He also found that White had a surviving son. James Guy White lived near Washington, Mo., about 80 miles from Schroeder’s home near Jefferson City, Mo.

The men met late last year and are planning a trip to Colorado so Schroeder can meet James Guy White’s family and visit the family burial plot.