Finding out who she is

[RUBYROO666]

Could someone please tell me the very first place to start researching someone who is adopted. My friend would like to do this but she does not know the first thing to do?

[Pels.]

     




Hi Ruby, 

Welcome to RootsChat ! 

The Salvation Army is a good place to start :

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0cbl/

Also, there is further advice on the link below :

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,142443.0.html

Best wishes and good luck,

Pels.

[RUBYROO666]

Great Thank you x

[Ermintrude46]

Your friend should contact her local branch of Children's Social Services who have a legal duty to help her find out about her adoption (or Social Services in the area where she was adopted if she knows this information).  If she was adopted before 1976 she will have to have a 'counselling' session before she can access her original birth certificate/adoption file but this is just to ensure that she understands the situation for adoptive parents in those days i.e. that they expected never to know anything more about the child they gave up and the possible implications for a family 'reunion'
Ermy

[RUBYROO666]

Thank you, this was very useful. x