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any tips or any advice. spent two years searching for partners family after social services said they could find no trace, i found everyone bar one sister who was adopted, cannot get any further even though gro have told us she is alive, any ideas.

stick her name and date of birth etc on here...someone may know something and wot ever u do...dont give up...good luck with ur search tho ok xx

have you tried to advertise in magazines and papers ! or look in phone books ! I found my natural Mum by looking up her maiden name in U.K phone directory online and rang all 11 I found a aunt who lived in same town... all been together for 7 years ( well I'm in Oz they all in U.K )good Luck and dont give up !!!

Debs? How do GRO know she is alive? Do they know her new name?.....

SS's are not much cop at tracing adopted persons sadly, they don't have the right tools to do the job.

thanks for replys. have tried everything except magazines as dont know what area she went to. gro know she is alive from her medical records and yes they know her new name. wont tell us though. she has had two name changes since she was adopted and has either kept ann as her name or named mitchell as they say she has kept part of her name. social services paper work on the other child told us there was two sisters, the eldest one went with the father and youngest one stayed with mother.
eldest one i found who had lived with mother and did not even know there was a girl involved, she always knew about her brother who had been adopted. the father of the adopted male. i found from what sister told us denys been father, but we met him and all his other kids. we dont know if social services paper work is muddled up or if just mistake and if ann did go with her father who looks like to be a different father. the named father on the social services paper work is named as different man who also had a boy adopted as well apart from my so called partner. all very complicated. i traced the family of the man named on paper work as been father , he died few years ago. so i did not take things any further . i got all records from gro about named father on paper work and his family and paper work is in the attic now. i am now wondering??? all very confusing.

if ann went with her father to scotland . other daughter used to visit and can remember a smaller child there female but does not know if it was his new wifes child.

original father to eldest sister joseph mitchell born edinborough. around 1919. is it normal for father to adopt child when he gets re married if at all she did go with him. i am ringing eldest sister up as not heard from her for over a year.

I may be wrong, and I stand corrected if I am, isnt there a change in the law recently regarding the right of siblings to trace other siblings.
cant they at least ask her if she wants contact without giving you her details.

am having the same problem hun ic ant trace my grandmas family she was patience coles but birth name was summers driving me potty

Hi Debs,
If you've already been in contact with GRO I presume you know about the Adoption Contact Register? You can get a red booklet from your local Register Office about the scheme or ring Adoptions section of GRO on 0151 471 4830
Good Luck,
Dawn

i have 2 names to go by which is good but i still cnat find a birth place just date etc

yes know all the ins and outs of it all.
its just a case of finding her. it has to be through social services. and they cannot find her. i knew more information than they did and they was amazed at what was found out. i am digging paper work out in next few days and making few phone calls . many thanks for your help. we dont think she went with her father and from what i can remember i think gro told us she did not get adopted by father. i will get back in touch with the lady that was helping me from gro and see how to get on. wil keep u posted.
i dont think ann maybe knows she was adopted or is just not intrested. the other sister i found was overwhelmed and even more so that she had another sister out there some where. its hard work trying to find a adopted person. i accuired a adoption cert with some help from someone, it was the wrong one.
i found the lady in salford manchester and she could not believe the information i had , even down to the what the locals called her house. it was called the egg house. found so much out about her and homed the adoption certificate . busy painting all day . bye for now

hi just saw ur messege i was fosterd iv come acrross the same stuff they had now recordof me im from scotland iv been looking for 25 years and just found some of my family in the last 6 weks still looking for a magret and robert and a adam mitchell got their birth set all but adam allborn in perthshire

hi my name is janet i to been looking for my half sister was born in 1944 in lichfield the strangest thing is she was called janet to we share the same mother different dad but although family members no what the circumstances are no one will say she was adopted when she was months old but cant move on some members of the family say its all lies what i no but i have found her birth regestration the surname of mother is mitchell fathers name is mold any info most welcome

Debs,
you say you have been in touch with GRO so presumably your partner is on the Adoption Contact Register, as Dawn suggested?
Have you also tried NORCAP? They specialise in trying to reunite adopted people with their birth families and can do further searches than we can. (I'm searching for my adopted half-brother born 1961).
I know this was posted nearly 2 years ago but did you have any luck with your search?
Good luck anyway.