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.
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A COLLECTION OF WEBSITES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SEARCHING
There are numerous websites that provide information about searching for birth family members. However, most are not comprehensive, may be confusing, and do not provide a process or roadmap to follow. Below are several websites that are comprehensive, easy to understand, and provide useful information to those who have decided to search.
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We recommend you click on the links in the order they are presented below to review the most helpful websites.
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