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Please can anyone help me furthur with adoption in
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Judy | Report | 8 Dec 2003 19:05 |
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Ruth: I'm not up on websites on adoption but I can give some of advice that may help. I have a family website, www(.)coskey(.)net (remove the brackets.) Every genealogy site I visit, I leave a message with the web address. We have a guestbook at the site where family, friends, and strangers can leave messages. People often inquire there about whether or not they are related or not and some leave messages for others searching the same surname. Approximately a year or so a go there was a message left on our site from a woman who was searching for her mother's birth mom.....she left a message with what little information she had....including the surnmame she was searching (it was one in our tree) and she asked if we knew of anyone in the family that had given a child up for adoption. At the time, we were not aware of anyone giving a child up for adoption. My aunt, also a family historian, came across one of my postings as well as one of the postings from the woman who left a message at our site, at I think, Ancestry.com.....something clicked, seeing the two messages together and we inquired within the family about anyone giving up a child back in 1943. Lo and behold, we indeed had a cousin who had given up a child for adoption and the information left at our site matched the information left in our website guestbook. Back in 1943 out of wedlock pregnancies were not discussed and my cousin had given up the baby without telling anyone but one sister for fear of what her father would do to her. Needless to say, we have a new branch to add to our large extended family. So, my advise to you would be to leave messages at every genealogy site you visit. Do a Google search, entering the surname you are searching for and visit any site where that surname is listed.....leave messages in every guestbook you come across that relates to your surname....ya just never know! Good luck in your search for family! Judy |
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Janet | Report | 28 Nov 2003 16:53 |
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See your previous thread now moved to the top |
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Ruth | Report | 28 Nov 2003 14:47 |
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To anyone who is kind enough to help, My mum was adopted and I am trying to find her birth mum I know: Where are when she was born Her mothers name at the time of birth How old her mum is now What do I do next???? Please help R xx |
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