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
Facebook groups
A COLLECTION OF FACEBOOK GROUPS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SEARCHING
There are numerous Facebook groups that provide information about birth parent searching. However, most are not comprehensive, only focus on a single dimension of searching, are not organized, and may be inactive. Below are several websites that provide comprehensive and useful information, and are very active and provide the latest developments about birth family searching.
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Since anyone can post information on these groups, you must realize that information is not uniformly reliable or of value. It is best to review the information posted by those administrators who created and manage the group. It is also very helpful to click on the "Files" link on the left side of each of the homepages of these Facebook groups. This is where the administrators have stored useful documents about family searching.
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We recommend you click on the links in the order they are presented below to review the most helpful Facebook groups.
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Facebook GROUPS