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“This is how you get a baby…!”

by Ann House

My brother’s 60th birthday is coming! Most folks remember their siblings being born. But I remember going to get him. Notice that he was here and “available” came through Western Union.  Preparation for his arrival meant I had to give up my cat and my dog, which made me quite sad.  But since I was […]

Erased

by Ann House

She knew her birth mother would say “no” to a reunion. She knew her birth mother was from a small, conservative town in Missouri. She knew her birth mother returned to that town. She knew her birth mother would say “no” because the adoptee is bi-racial. She thought, however, that her birth mother would say […]

The life of a searcher – in remembrance of Sally

by Ann House

Today was a brutal day of searching – my back aches, my neck screams. It was also quite fulfilling when I finally reunited two siblings who never knew the other existed; whose mother had a tumultuous life and kept one, giving the other up for adoption. French Canadian…not much of that here. All this from […]

The Process, the assumptions, and the end results…

by Ann House

I want to spend a little time talking about the process of search. And it is a process. But first and foremost before a search can commence,  there must be searchable information. People come by their information in a variety of ways. Hopefully there is a file that your adoptive parents kept containing documentation; or […]

Faulty memories…

by Ann House

Thanksgiving morning I received an email from an attorney in New Brunswick, Canada requesting help for a 92 year old birth mother. In essence, she stated the woman had given birth here in 1946, had returned to New Brunswick to make a home – leaving the two month old baby with a woman she trusted. […]

Serelda

by Ann House

Sometimes I just can’t find them. It is rare, but sometimes I feel as if I’m trying to search through a gray fog for something just slightly out of my sight on the other side. Usually it is because a name is too common: Elizabeth Chavez, Maria or Mary Martinez, Dorothy Sanchez, Dianne Jones – […]

Unique finds & photographs

by Ann House

A couple of years ago I received an email from a man in England. He stated he was doing genealogy research and had received a copy of his mother’s divorce decree from New Mexico. Imagine his surprise to find that in that decree, a judge had ordered his mother to give up a child she […]