Help and Advice appreciated

It is definitely worth it for you to search. I am an international adoptee from South America and I found my birth parents. My brother who is also adopted also found his just recently and he had very little information on them yet he found them. It just takes a lot of time and effort and a lot of gathering information. And you have to be committed to doing it or it won't happen. It took me 3 years to actually admit that I wanted to find my birth family and another year to actually do it... I kept putting up road blocks in front of me all the way through of course. But, I had a good friend of mine to keep me on track and to help me get threw the emotional road blocks I put in front of me. Just do the search if you feel you are ready. That's what matters most.

Hola, If it's something that you feel in your heart that you want and are ready to do, then go for it. It it worth, if finding out more information about where you can from can help your identity and such. I was adopted from Colombia and and have been involved in my own search on and off for about 10 years. If you know which agency you were adopted from, that may help, such as CASA, FANA, or CRAN. Also the ICBF website may help, if you know which part of Colombia your birth mother came from. :)

Hi, My name is alicia and I was adopted back in 1988 as an infant from Colombia. I'm also looking for my birth mother as well as my sisterIf you have any sucess with any sites or organizations please if you don't mind passing along the info. I would greatly appreciate it.Thanks and good luck, Alicia

If you want to know, then it's always worth searching. :-) The internet has made the world a much smaller place nowadays. Things that would've been impossible to do by snail mail can be done in seconds or minutes now. I know so many 'reunions' that have taken place because of Facebook, Myspace, etc. I spent about 10 years searching hard and was in Yahoo Groups and Facebook groups and posted my contact info on adoptee register websites and so many of my own searches came up dead end after dead end. Then one random day I got an email hit off one of those adds on an adoptee register, from my Aunt. From there I found both my parents on Facebook. Don't ever give up. There's always that random day that can come out of the blue, but only if you search. [url=http://cousinconnect.com/]Genealogy Query and Surname Database[/url] (Don't let the name fool you, it's for more than just 'cousins' and this is where I got my hit. It's free to post and global.) You might also want to try: [url=http://www.adopteeconnect.com/]Birth Parent Search[/url] There's also a Yahoo Group for Colombian adoptees here: [url=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColombianAdopteeSearchAndSupport/]ColombianAdopteeSearchAndSupport : This list is for Colombian Adoptees and those connected to Colombian adoption[/url] with thousands of back messages (you can search them once you join, so you don't have to go through one by one). A couple of Colombian links at the bottom of this page: [url=http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/birthfamilysearch]Adoption Information from Adoptive Families Magazine: Domestic, International, Foster and Embryo Adoption Resources[/url] Hope this helps and good luck on your search! :)