Search: A Handbook For Adoptees And Birthparents

Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents

Now in its third edition, this widely acclaimed resource provides an honest and detailed guide for adoptees and their birthparents. It offers a wealth of ideas, advice, resources, and encouragement to anyone considering embarking on his or her own journey of discovery. Drawing from personal experience as well as from extensive research, author Jayne Askin presents creative ways to overcome obstacles and attack problems that occur during the search process. Review .,."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 About the Author 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.