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A 79-year-old mother from the United States has launched a desperate search for her son she gave up for adoption in Scotland in the 1960s and has highlighted the plight of the...

First, when a child leaves their birth family for an adoptive family, their name is changed and original birth certificate (Original Birth Entry - OBE) is annotated “adopted”.

Here's the Autumn issue of our Bulletin. It is mostly taken up with an article on adoption papers, in particular Court Process and contains an account of accessing these at the...

I met my grandfather for the firsttime last summer. He got out of thecar, trembling slightly under theweight of five lost decades. A nervousgrin lit up his face as he embraced...

Legal Adoption in its current form is relatively new. But every society at every time in history has children who are separated, willingly or otherwise, from their immediate...

Have you considered using DNA testing to assist with identifying family? There are now a host of commercial companies offering ‘genealogy’ DNA test kits which can connect you to...