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Jessye,
You may want to begin by registering with the ISRR at [url]www.isrr.net[/url] .
You may also try going to the adoption agency which handled your adoption.
Some other suggestions put out by the adoptioncafe of yahoo groups are:
1) Create a Search Journal
2) Discuss the search with your parents.
3) Locate your amended birth certificate
4) Retrieve a copy of your final adoption decree.
5) Retrieve your petition to addopt
6) Contact the adoption agency
7) Contact the law firm or attorney who assisted in your adoption
8) Contact your delivery physician
9) File a waiver of confidentiality with the adoption agency, law firm, and
the courts.
10) Attempt to retreive your original birth certificate.
11) Apply for medical records from the hospital where you were born.
12) Contact the judge about opening your adoption records.
13) Formally petition the court to open your adoption records.
14)Register with the International Soundex Reunion Registry-(ISRR)
PO box 2312
Carson City, Nv 89701-2312
( Include a self addressed stamper enevelope)
15) Check both county and state records for marriage and/or devorce
records for either of the birth parents.
16) Learn about the adoption laws for your state.
17) Check county and state death records for birth parents and birth
grandparents.
18) Write to the Adoption Regulation Unit in your state to access your
adoption records.
19) Send for a copy of where to write for birth, marriage, devorce, and
death records. Superintendent of documents, US Government Printing
Office, Washington, DC 20402
20) Order a copy of the Guide to Genealogical Records in the National
Archives The National Archives, Washington, DC 20408
21) Find maps for the area you are searching.
22) Create a profile or the hometown or region where each of your
birthparents was said to have been from.
23) Create a list of all the libraries in your area and in the
localities where you are focusing your search.
24) Check local newspapers from the area where you were born for birth
announcements.
25) Check local nespapers rom the area where your birthparents were born
for their birth announcements.
26) Check local newspapers for wedding and engagement announcements for
your parents.
27) Check obituaries in local papers where you believe birth relatives
may have died.
28) Check in old city directories to try to locate your birthparents or
other relatives.
.29) Check city directories to match an occupation to a name.
30) Check in city directories to locate former or current employers of
your birthparents.
31) Cross referance city directoty information year by year.
32) Check in city directories to locate old addresses of birthparents or
relatives.
33) Check phone books and national phone directory discs for birth
parents.
34) List your self in the phone directory of the area where you were
born or in the area where you relinquished your birth child.
35) Locate all churches of the faith of your birthparents in the area
where they were living at the time of your birth -
and now.
36) Check any possible surnames against a book of possible name
deviations.
37) Check local churches in the area near where you were born for
baptismal records.
38) Check local churches in areas where you believe your birthparents
may have resided for their own baptismal, marriage, or death records.
39) Join a local or national search and support organzation, and sign up
in their registry if they maintain one.
40) Create your own library of search and reunion books.
41) Advertise in adoption search magazines.
42) Advetise in newspapers where you believe your birthparent might
reside.
43) Order a copy of How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the
Military 1 800 937 2133.
44) Contact old landlords for forwarding addresses.
45) Contact old neighbors for forwarding addresses and other
information.
46) Visit old neighborhoods in person to locate past acquintances of
birthparents.
47)Check with former employers about possible forwarding addresses of
birthparents.
48) Check old high school and college yearbooks.
49) Check with a high school or college chairman about the current
address of a birthparent or request a list of entire class.
50) Contact a private investigator or consultant.
Best wishes in your search,
Barbara
ISO bdaughter 6-6-71
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