Document - Based Search
When a child is adopted from China, the orphanage, or agency responsible for facilitating such adoptions provides the adoptive parents with numerous documents to finalize the adoption including a Certificate of Abandonment, health reports, immunization records, a finding ad, and sometimes a birth certificate. In addition, the child’s orphanage file contains additional documents such as the Finder’s Report, and sometimes a Police Report. The file may also contain hospital records if the child was ill shortly before or after arriving at the orphanage. Adoptive parents typically have the original documents translated into English, by one or more individuals, and then look for clues in the documents that could point to the identity of the child’s biological parents. This type of search is called a document-based search since it is driven by the legal documents provided to the adoptive family during the adoption process.
Chinese Birth Family
Search Network
About
ALL ABOUT THE MISSION AND VISION OF THE CHINESE BIRTH FAMILY SEARCH NETWORK (CBFSN)
Our Mission
The Chinese Birth Family Search Network (CBFSN) exists to assist Chinese adoptees, and their adoptive families, whose adoptions were facilitated by the China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) or the China Center for Children’s Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA), with searches to locate members of the adoptee’s birth family thereby increasing the likelihood that those searches will be successful.
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The CBFSN also exists to facilitate the distribution of information about Chinese birth family members who are looking to reconnect with Chinese adoptees who were relinquished and adopted internationally.
The Vision
The CBFSN envisions the day when any Chinese adoptee who was adopted through China’s international adoption program will be able to identify their biological parents and other members of their birth family and reconnect, if the birth family desires to do so.
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The CBFSN also envisions the day when any Chinese birth family can obtain information about the welfare of the child they relinquished for adoption and reconnect, if the adoptee so desires.