Illinois adoptees born before January 1, 1946 may now get copies of their original unaltered birth certificates. Those born after that date must wait until November 15, 2011. The following excerpts are from an interesting article about the first person to get access - just a couple days ago. The article, at the Examiner website, [...]
The following is a teaser from a great adoption-reunion story. It brought tears to my eyes…
For months, the woman had been watching Joanne Eckert.
Listening for the inflections in her voice when she spoke with customers or laughed.
Observing her frustrated reaction when she couldn’t dislodge a container stuck under the counter.
Looking for similarities.
Joanne never noticed. [...]
The following teaser is from an article dealing adoption reunion issues, found at the wcsh6.com website. Not only is the article interesting, but the comments also add a lot of insight into what adoptees go through in attempting to locate and reunite with their birth parents. It’s not always pretty…
LEWISTON (NEWS CENTER) - A [...]
Adoptees in South Dakota are once again pushing to get a bill passed allowing them access to their birth records. They almost accomplished it in 2009, but fell short. Following is an excerpt for a lengthy and interesting AP article in the October 4, 2009 Rapid City Journal.
Even though Oaks, who was adopted as an [...]
Diana Lynn Tibert wrote a very interesting and informative column for the October 3, 2009 Times & Transcript in which she gives information on doing adoption research in Canada. She includes some online links that will be helpful to anyone searching for Canadian Adoption Records. Following is a teaser:
Laws keeping records sealed indefinitely are slowly [...]
Like many children, Arnold Nikolaisen was not happy to learn he wasn’t going to remain an only child. However, the shock for him was worse than most — he found out at 75.
Nikolaisen was raised as an only child, never knowing he had an older sister adopted away before he was born.
It was quite a [...]
On the first of June, Ontario will join the other Canadian Provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, and Newfoundland in opening their adoption records. Although the government has given adoptees as well as birth parents the ability to opt-out of having their records disclosed, thus far only about 2500 (equally split between birth parents [...]
New Jersey is going through the struggle of debating and deciding whether to give adoptees rights to their birth information, or to continue to let things lie as they are. The New Jersey State Senate passed an adoptees’ rights bill in in March. Now it’s up to the House. It’s a tough one. I [...]
Adoption reunions don’t always turn out well, and they can have unintended consequences. The following is a teaser from an article in the April 7, 2009 edition of the Mirror, titled “My adopted son came home… and nearly ended my marriage.”
A reunion with a long-lost family member may seem like a cause for joy – [...]
The New York Foundling, one of New York City’s oldest and largest child welfare agencies, is planning a reunion for those children - now grown - who have been adopted through their services over the years. The following is excerpted from a much-longer article by Jennifer Peltz, published in the February 16, 2009 edition of [...]
David Stevenson would like to know who his mother is. It seems that he was left in a second-floor hallway at West Heath Court, North End Road, Golders Green, England as an infant in December of 1960. Scotland Yard conducted a search in a futile attempt to locate his mother, but it all came to [...]
New Book Review:
Back to the Beginning – Remarkable True Stories of Adoption Searches & Reunions
Adoption Searches are unique to each person involved. Some clients simply want medical histories. For others the stakes are much higher: a daughter seeking to understand the trauma her birthmother went through at the time of relinquishment; a son wanting to [...]
Last Friday (January 2, 2009), a new law passed in Maine went into effect. The new law allows adoptees the right to copies of their original birth records - complete with the names of their parents. Maine’s new law includes a protection for birth parents by allowing them to state that they do not wish [...]
