Have You Established Contact? Do You Want to?
There are many of you out there who want to begin your search for reconnection—or at least have thought about it. It can be a scary thing to think about. It is full of unknowns and mystery. And because...
View ArticleAdoption.com’s Reunion Registry Hits 400,000!
Adoption.com’s Search and Reunion Registry has hit 400,000 individual profiles! Across the United States, profiles of those looking for long-lost family members are consistently created, making the...
View ArticleMoving Forward as an Adult Adoptee
Adoption can be difficult for both adoptive and biological parents. The same is true for adult adoptees, especially those who have reached out and haven’t had successful reunion experiences. If you’re...
View ArticleMoments of Change
There are moments in life that can change all that you thought to be true. It happens in the blink of an eye and often, without any warning. It may be a choice you make, a thought you have, a new...
View ArticleBeing Adopted
Wow, I think back on when I was placed with my family and it just makes me smile. My first several years my mom was so afraid that if she didn’t tell me about how they got me, that I’d learn it from...
View ArticleThe Love of Two Mothers
With Mother’s Day coming up, I can’t help but think of my birth mother and my adopted mother. One carried me in her stomach and the other in her heart till the day she died four years ago. I can’t...
View ArticleReconnection Is Possible!
No matter where you are in the search and reunion process, it can be difficult to keep your head up and your thoughts positive. The reunion search can be a tiring journey, physically, emotionally, and...
View ArticleSearch
I have known for as long as I can remember that I was adopted. I don’t remember the specifics of my adoptive parents telling me, I just know they were always open with me about it and supportive of my...
View ArticleTo Search or Not To Search
I wrestled with the notion of searching for my birth family throughout much of my formative years. My adoptive parents always told me they would support a desire to search and do whatever would be...
View ArticleMy Biological Mother
Mother’s Day was always a time of year I would wonder about my biological mother. When I was younger I knew I was adopted but didn’t know details, like my parents’ names or birthdays, so Hallmark...
View ArticleA Selfless Decision
The week of May 28, 2013, I received the estate file of my birth mother. I decided to try to locate the executor of the estate, thinking she could give me insight as to who my birth mother was as a...
View ArticleHEALING HAPPENS!
The ridiculed little girl spoken of in my first article for Adoption.com began the inevitable course of growing up. Her emotions had told her, and sadly she had listened, that she was a ‘duty-child’,...
View ArticleGot REGISTRATION?
Ah, Readers! Bear with me, please, as I get my feet beneath me navigating the Adoption.com site! Having been given permissions to blog in several categories here, I found in retrospect that I had...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve
Having completed registration here and nationally, I began ‘The Learning Curve Era’. Consuming information in great gulps helped speed the time a bit, yet just as a curved road requires slower, more...
View ArticleOf Pit Stops and Lessons Learned
No one likes pit stops. They slow us down in the race; make us feel like we’re losing ground. Stopping was never part of my agenda. But pit stops are necessary. They give us gas to keep going,...
View ArticleThe Finding of a Name
I had made two ‘wrong turns’ up to this point, but I’m not much of a believer in coincidence. I tend to lean in the direction of all things having a reason. I learned lessons about myself and others...
View ArticleAfter Finding the Name
In the days before computers, all non-identifying information was typewritten. Identifying information was blacked out with marker and for extra measure, a layer of ‘white-out’, used to correct...
View ArticleOne Name Saves the Day: Making Contact
There was no doubt that finding my birthmother’s name was a miracle. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to link to ‘catch-up’ posts.) Now it was time to start making calls. We had a good list based...
View ArticleMoving from a Name to a Voice
With me sitting alongside him, my husband called every male name on the list. Every time he dialed, I held my breath until someone answered. Every time no one answered or the voice on the other end...
View ArticleAn Uncle Found
Hazel had given us Marty’s name. (See that story HERE.) It was sudden and unexpected. At first, she had nothing to offer, but after a bit of time on the phone with my husband, Hazel came through....
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