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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #9 on: Monday 20 May 19 05:21 BST (UK) »
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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #10 on: Monday 20 May 19 05:35 BST (UK) »
I was just looking at the bottom link supplied by AntonyMMM and they have documents to fill out for those living in the UK, and those out of country. 
It does say this on the forms:

Section 2-Adopted before12 November 1975                                                                                         
If you were adopted before 12 November 1975 you must attend a meeting with an approved adoption advisor.
2.1 Please email adoptions @gro.gsi.gov.uk or telephone +44(0) 300 123 1837 (option 8 ) for information on your nearest organisation or other options available to you.

Don't let that dissuade you, but why not email and ask where the nearest organization is as they may have some they would prefer working with, and hopefully be more lenient?

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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #11 on: Monday 20 May 19 05:45 BST (UK) »
Yes,  Jigsaw can provide that interview service, they are an approved organisation.   It is on the link here:

Quote from: majm on Monday 20 May 19 05:21 BST (UK)
http://www.jigsaw.org.au/how-do-i-begin/uk/

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You will be required to attend an interview with a licensed counsellor. If you wish to use our services, return the completed application form to the UK with Adoption Jigsaw nominated as the counselling agency here in Perth. The documents will be sent to us and you will be notified by them, you can then phone for an appointment with our counsellor to receive your information. Jigsaw can provide search and contact for adoptees born in England and Wales.

Perth is their head office.  I am fairly sure that you do not need to go to Perth (capital city of Western Australia).  I am fairly sure their counsellors can organise alternative locations. 

ADD,  I am happy to nominate other Australian based services to help with adoptions, but just like I would nominate RootsChat for someone wanting real help with their family history,  I chose to nominate Jigsaw for real help with someone in Australia but with UK adoption help being sought.

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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #12 on: Monday 20 May 19 05:52 BST (UK) »
Perfect, JM!  Now Traci has a plan of action to follow!
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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #13 on: Monday 20 May 19 06:04 BST (UK) »
Thanks. I think I will have to get professional help. I have been on the NNA website and tried the whole range of different ways to search but we don’t appear to exist. I even tried my grandmother who came with us and had a different surname (in case there was some kind of typo with ours), and she doesn’t appear there anywhere either. It’s so frustrating. I appreciate everyone’s help and suggestions.

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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #14 on: Monday 20 May 19 07:10 BST (UK) »
Long way around it:
Go to Search the collection here: http://naa.gov.au/collection/search/ 
 
Then to Record Search there  DO NOT ENTER ANYTHING YET  But across the top, light blue background is Passenger arrivals.

Click on Passenger arrivals

And NOW USE LESS IS MORE thinking…  :D

Put FAMILY NAME in but not too much info in any of the other options…

You know the year of arrival, so perhaps put year of arrival, but only if you have a very popular surname (SMITH, BROWN, JONES, WILSON, TAYLOR etc)

Hit Search (blue option lower left)

Wait for a very short while and then the Passenger arrivals index pops up for all the arrivals in that surname… 

Each heading can be re-sorted …. Eg Date of arrival … click on that heading as an example, and scroll through, perhaps several pages to scroll through.

On the right hand side is the barcode.   When you have found even just one member of your family, click on that barcode entry…   You will hopefully have the arrival details - keep a copy of that info, it can be important when following up with the actual IMMI papers … if not, it will be simply that my instructions are not good enough or your arrival to Australia in the 1970s has not yet been indexed (very very unusual, but an email to naa.gov.au asking them will help you know what to do next)…

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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #15 on: Monday 20 May 19 08:05 BST (UK) »
Blimey, Thanks so much JM. We exist! I found our incoming passenger cards. This is exciting. Wo grateful to you for your help. I will now retrace my steps and see what else I can find using the minimal search terms idea.
Thank you again.

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« Reply #16 on: Monday 20 May 19 08:15 BST (UK) »
There's info on those papers that will help the officials.  Download and do not crop the images,  and keep the barcode numbers too.

I am very very pleased for you.

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Re: Help finding mother’s adoption records from 1945
« Reply #17 on: Monday 20 May 19 11:09 BST (UK) »


When, and by what means, did your mother find out that she was adopted?

Grandmother died 20 years ago in.......Australia?
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