Welcome to Adoption Search Tips

Thank  you for your courage in starting a search! If you are a birth or original mother in search of an adoptee and are just starting your search, or if you have been searching for many years and are frustrated at your lack of success, you s...

One of the hardest and most emotional requests that we receive are from men and women who are looking for absentee fathers and have spent hundred if not thousands of hours checking online databases and telephone numbers they find for people with...

If you are an adoptee contemplating a search for your birth or biological family, the very first place to start is at the beginning, on the day you were born. Check your birth certificate. It may list more than you think. Depending on the S...

We are often asked 'why' adoptees come to a point in their lives that they start a search for biological family.  The best answer to that question is that they are in search of 'self'.  Soren Kierkegaard said this, "Life must be understood back...

Welcome to Adoption Search Tips! My name is Susan Friel-Williams and I am an adult adoptee who spent several long and very frustrating years in search of my biological family.  Throughout that journey, I learned not only how to search, but al...