Am i adopted
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Monika,
Thank you for using this forum for your question: " am I adopted "
This question does take some research, not knowing if you have done any research regarding your own family it takes time and effort.
The search to find the biological parent of an adopted child has long be fraught with one challenge after another. In many cases, young single mothers who gave up a child for adoption are married now and have families of their own. They often don’t want to be found for fear that their secret may be discovered or because they worry it could cause problems with their spouse and their other children.
In the past, the court system has not been very helpful in helping adopted children find their birth mothers who gave them up for adoption. Adoption files are often sealed with strict legally binding instructions not to make these files available to the public; not even to those directly involved in the adoption.
However, today we are finding that gaining access to adoption records, while still difficult, is not nearly as hopeless as it once seemed. The
More than 127,000 children are adopted each year within the United States. Altogether, more than 1.5 million children (more than 2% of all total U.S. child population) have been adopted. Many of these adopted children, at some time in their lives, try to find their biological birth parents.FamilySearch Wiki has a helpful page on resources that anyone can use that might help them crack the walls of secrecy involved in gaining access to adoption records. The wiki page is titled, United States Adoption Research and provides some basic guidelines on how to move forward in their search, along with many excellent links to webpages where additional help can be found.
- For most adoptees, finding one’s birth parents is still a big challenge. But with so many excellent web sources and support organizations willing to lend a hand, the task has become much more hopeful.
- Start your onw Family Tree in FamilySearch. enter as much information that you know about yourself.
- Add known grandparents, great grandparents information.
- Let us assist you by asking this forum additional questions and let us be a source of assistance to you.
- Use the Help Center which is available by clicking on the circle with the question mark in it. We wish you much success with your own research and the use of Your Family Tree and the help from volunteers that are willing to assist you.
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Hello @MonikaEhimhanre
The To-do List feature on the Home Page is a tool to help you keep track of any family history assignments or goals you want to complete. It is a self-generated field -- in other words, you are the one who adds items to the list, not FamilySearch or any computer software. If the item should not be on your list, then simply delete it.
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