Tag: "Birth Family"

<../advice-for-adoptees-starting-an-adoption-search> 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 State that issued it, the certificate may list your time of birth, the hospital, the delivering doctor's name and other things you can use in your search. If you have an amended 'short form' birth certificate, try to obtain what is called a 'long form' birth certificate. It may tell you more than what you currently have.

If ... Read More

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 backwards, but... it must be lived forwards". When you are adopted and you do not know the beginning of your personal story, nothing that comes afterward makes any sense, and until you find out your own answers you never understand why.

An adoptee once explained his feelings this way. "Imagine that you are ... Read More

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 also learned that there is a whole community of adoptee and birth family members who wish to reconnect.

In 1990 I obtained my first Private Investigator license in Idaho before relocating to Loveland, Colorado. For several years I was also a Senior Adoption Forum Host on America Online (Family Forum) where we guided adoption triad members through the ... Read More