Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents, 3rd Edition

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

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Now in its third edition, this resource provides a detailed guide for adoptees and their birthparents. It offers a wealth of ideas, advice, resources, and encouragement to those considering embarking on their own journey of discovery. Drawing from personal experiences as well as extensive research, author Jane Askin presents creative ways to overcome obstacles and attack problems that occur during the search process. She presents realistic choices and alternatives, and their consequences for both parties. New to this edition is coverage of the advances that have been made in the area of electronic search methods for adoptees and birthparents, and how even the most novice computer users can assess them. State-by-state listings of adoption laws have also been updated, as have the addresses and contact information for the various groups, organizations and other resources featured in the book.

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.,."crammed with helpful strategies....this guide is likely to diminish the amount of time searchers spend looking for sources, and will surely provide support throughout the process."-Kirkus Reviews
...crammed with helpful strategies....this guide is likely to diminish the amount of time searchers spend looking for sources, and will surely provide support throughout the process.-Kirkus Reviews
An Impressively well-researched, fully informational guide.-Publisher's Weekly
Recommended for public libraries and social science collections.-Library Journal
This book is a must in any organization's library. If you are involved in a search, you should have one of your own.-June Tanner, Research Director, The Kansas City Adoptologist
We all leave a paper trail and Jayne Askin knows how to follow it.-FGS
Whether medical, genetic, genealogical, or personal, the need to know one's family history can be especially strong for those adopted as children....Search provides a detailed, step-by-step process for unearthing adoptions information.-Adoptees In Search Letter
..."crammed with helpful strategies....this guide is likely to diminish the amount of time searchers spend looking for sources, and will surely provide support throughout the process."-Kirkus Reviews
"An Impressively well-researched, fully informational guide."-Publisher's Weekly
"Recommended for public libraries and social science collections."-Library Journal
"This book is a must in any organization's library. If you are involved in a search, you should have one of your own."-June Tanner, Research Director, The Kansas City Adoptologist
"We all leave a paper trail and Jayne Askin knows how to follow it."-FGS
"Whether medical, genetic, genealogical, or personal, the need to know one's family history can be especially strong for those adopted as children....Search provides a detailed, step-by-step process for unearthing adoptions information."-Adoptees In Search Letter

Author Bio

JAYNE ASKINs arduous search for the identity of her own birthparents led her to write Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents. In 1997, a court ruling opened birth and adoption records in Tennessee for the first time, and she received copies of all her records. Askin now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was a contributing author to the Seattle Survival Guide.