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Looking for my brother Stephen Evans who was adopted in Birkenhead in 1952/3, getting help from After Adoption Team, WAITING. Have been looking for over 40yrs :-( so saw this site need lots of help, <3 :-) Linda. <3

Welcome to the Boards David and Madeline

Rather than tack on to this 'Advice' thread, start ones of your own on this Board. if people can help, they will.

In the meantime, read up on the links posted above.

Good luck

am looking for birth family from glasgow. Elizabeth Mcdonald is my mother. I was born 1958 :-\

Looking for my birth parents Ismalia Mary Smith married to patrick kelly living in rochdale my fathers names is alan jackson i have 2 brothers and a sister i was born in 1962 in littleborough

These 2 links may also help

http://www.videojug.com/interview/finding-your-birth-records-2

ADMIN UPDATE: Sorry I needed to split this URL into two so that it did not affect the display on the screen. Take all of the following text, and remove the space after Registeringlifeevents. The paste into your browser.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents /Birthandadoptionrecords/Adoptionrecords/DG_175567

Anne-Marie - It might have been best to have started a thread of your own. This one was intended to give general advice.

1) follow the links given on Joy's opening post and register your interest
2) If mum will tell you, contact the SS who handled his adoption/care. They might be willing to put your details on his file.
3) Make sure you have him on your tree on here under his birth name.
4) If you change your email address, make sure you update your contact details on this site, even if you no longer subscribe. If he should come looking for birth family, he will still be able to send you a message.
5) Search using his birth name of FB and other social networking sites - if he is looking for his birth family, he may have ceated an account in that name.

i would love to meet my older brother i haven't seen him since i was about 1 years old and i an now 23 years old i know his birth name and have found hie birth citifcat but mum has always told us that he was adopted and dont no were to go from here pleas can some one help me his birth name was Dominic Mark Davis but don't think it will be the same now he was born june 1984 would love to meet him

I think People should be aware that, despite sponsoring the TV show , which appears to magically have answers, that Genes Reunited ( as an organisation/website/whatever) are NOT able to tell people what someones name became following adoption.

How about that then.. :-)

I agree with Roy.. . I just saw where it had been stickied on genealogy chat...

well surprise surprise..people don't go to genealogy chat all that often to search for siblings or birth parents etc

They come on this one and ask some very "sticky" questions that most of us are not qualified to answer.. but some do and dish out addresses by pm etc like they're lollies.

:-0 :-| :-|

Nudge :-D

I think it should also be Stickied to the top of this (Find Living Relatives board ) because its also very relevant to the posts on hear and most people searching tend to head to this board as a frist option

Roy

Tip of the day...Adoption records

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1188821


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