Overview

Adoption family searching made easier with self-help information including pro se (doing it yourself) legal forms, search tips both conventional and unconventional, search angels, court records resources, registries, and so much more. Also includes church records searches, passport information, letter templates, state birth indexes, maternity homes, library researches available, state statutes, waiver of confidentiality form and non-id request form. This is just part of the vast resourses the book has to offer. There are tips that are unheard of and many that are out there already, all found in this book.

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As a search tool, this handbook is indispensable. --Foreword Magazine The Adoption Records Handbook is an important -- even invaluable -- resource for everyone setting out to solve the mystery of their past, so they can move on to a better-informed and less-secretive future. --Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of Adoption Nation.Simply stated, Adoption Records Handbook should be a part of the reference collections of every community library in the country. --Midwest Reviews Small Press Bookwatch, Reviewers Choice The search for a birth family can be daunting, but Brown believes that no one should be denied the right to his birth information because it may inconvenience someone else. As she says, Whether good or bad, let them find their answers. --Foreword Magazine The Adoption Records Handbook represents that long awaited light at the end of the darkened tunnel where hope and reality finally meet. An essential roadmap to a successful search --Richard Fischer, Editor / Publisher of Adoption TODAY & Fostering Families TODAY Magazines The Adoption Records Handbook by Teresa Brown is essential for anyone looking to find their birth family. Well written and clearly presented to help cut through the maze of stumbling blocks, this book is a must. --Joe Soll, LCSW, psychotherapist and author of Evil Exchange and Adoption Healing... a path to recovery.

As a search tool, this handbook is indispensable. --Foreword Magazine The Adoption Records Handbook is an important -- even invaluable -- resource for everyone setting out to solve the mystery of their past, so they can move on to a better-informed and less-secretive future. --Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of Adoption Nation. Simply stated, Adoption Records Handbook should be a part of the reference collections of every community library in the country. --Midwest Reviews Small Press Bookwatch, Reviewers Choice The search for a birth family can be daunting, but Brown believes that no one should be denied the right to his birth information because it may inconvenience someone else. As she says, Whether good or bad, let them find their answers. --Foreword Magazine The Adoption Records Handbook represents that long awaited light at the end of the darkened tunnel where hope and reality finally meet. An essential roadmap to a successful search --Richard Fischer, Editor / Publisher of Adoption TODAY & Fostering Families TODAY Magazines The Adoption Records Handbook by Teresa Brown is essential for anyone looking to find their birth family. Well written and clearly presented to help cut through the maze of stumbling blocks, this book is a must. --Joe Soll, LCSW, psychotherapist and author of Evil Exchange and Adoption Healing... a path to recovery.

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Teresa Brown is a retired Paralegal, a reunited birth mother, and the sister to an adoptee. She has been around adoption most of her life and is familiar with all sides of the adoption triad. She located her birth daughter when her daughter was 21, and several years later when Teresa's sister asked her to locate her birth family, she was able to do so as well. She believes that all birth family members have a right to discover their answers, regardless of the final outcome. It gives a birth family member closure and peace in knowing. It can either close one door or open another, but either way, answers can finally be found.

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