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• Find Adoption Sources & Help through our FamilySearch Wiki! (Link added to content below).

  We hope that new content we will be adding, will help all of you with your family research! I have…

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• Please Welcome the Newest March & April Members to our Adoption Research Group!

  Please welcome the 21 newest members to the ADOPTION RESEARCH group who joined in March & April…

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• Rootstech Video: "Double Trouble" Using DNA to Solve Two Generations of Adoptions"

  This class given at Rootstech, may give ideas that will help you with finding more information on y…

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• End of the Line: Using DNA to Trace Orphan Train Origins

  See link and "Introduction" to Syllabus of an In Person presentation by Kate Penney Howar…

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• RootsTech: How to Add Adoptive and Birth Parents to your Tree-Beginners. (Sponsored by My Heritage)

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• Adoptee In search of biological mom

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• Adoption Research Strategies from FamilySearch Wiki (Links)

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• This Mom Looking for Her 3 Children that Were Adopted Out in Michigan

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• How do I find my grandfather's biological father?

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• Looking for my Dad's BIO Parents from NC adopted in NorFolk Virginia 1949

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• How to find records?

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• Homes for Unwed Mothers

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• Finding my Grandmother adoption info

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