Search A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents
3rd Edition

Subjects:

• Family Resources » Adoption

Reviews:

• Recommended for public libraries and social science collections.
  —Library Journal
• An Impressively well-researched, fully informational guide.
  —Publisher's Weekly
• Whether medical, genetic, genealogical, or personal, the need to know one's family history can be especially strong for those adopted as children....Search provides a detailed, step-by-step process for unearthing adoptions information.
  —Adoptees In Search Letter
• ...crammed with helpful strategies....this guide is likely to diminish the amount of time searchers spend looking for sources, and will surely provide support throughout the process.
  —Kirkus Reviews
• This book is a must in any organization's library. If you are involved in a search, you should have one of your own.
  —June Tanner, Research Director, The Kansas City Adoptologist
• We all leave a paper trail and Jayne Askin knows how to follow it.
  —FGS

Table of Contents:

• Sample Letters and Forms
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Deciding to Search
• Getting Moral Support
• What Will It Cost Me?
• Reference Resources
• Beginning to Search: Primary Sources of Data
• As the Search Progresses: Alternate Sources of Data
• Search and Support Groups, Researchers/Searchers, Consultants, Intermediaries, and the Courts
• Reunion Registries
• Searching on the Computer
• Search Resources and Services
• Ending Your Search
• Appendixes
• Index