Adoptees around the world mourn the loss of a dear friend and leader in the adoption reform movement, Jean Paton.

Jean was the founder of the adoption reform movement, and

Orphan Voyage. She passed away March 27 after a short illness.

You may post a memorial to her in the guestbook of this website:

http://www.geocities.com/orphanvoyage1953/

Please send condolences to her close friend:

June Schwantes

601 S. Birch

Harrison, AR 72601,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Welcome to adoptees.org, on the net.

This site is provided as a place for adoptees to present themselves to the world as adoptees.

This site is currently being rebuilt from it's original configuration to better fit the needs of today's adoptees. Some quick e-mail contacts for those who are searching, or thinking of searching for lost relatives due to an adoption circumstance.

Adoptees:

Feel free to use this site and it's resources to the fullest extent that you wish. If you wish to contribute your time, energy, or financial support for other adoptees, please don't hesitate to offer your skills and resources. Address your questions to: I-AmAdoptee@adoptees.org

Search Angels:

Please address your concerns to Angels@adoptees.org and inform us of the State in which you have contacts or can work in.

Birth parents:

Please feel free to submit your information to websearchers@adoptees.org

We will place that information in our search database.

Adoptive parents:

Please address your specific requests/concerns to adoptees-admin@adoptees.org

Paid Searchers:

Please address your requests / concerns to I-AmScum@adoptees.org,

we will skim through them at our leisure.

NEWS / EVENTS

Information

Reservations in DC.

Make sure you reserve your hotel rooms here for that D.C. March.

Broadcast Footage of the July 15, 2000 March/Rally in Washington, D.C. is available.

We have about 1.5 hrs. of broadcast footage of the July 2000 rally in D.C.. If you wish to acquire some of that footage for making PSA's in your State or local community, please contact adoptees.org or the production/media company listed below with your footage needs. We will try to get you the footage that will help make your quest for open records visible in your area.

Contacts for Footage of the rally

Circle of Life Foundation: adoptees-admin@adoptees.org

Production company: rally2k@vidtek.net

Is there really a Secrecy clause in relinquishment papers?

Did someone really promise anonymity?

	You think that there are contracts of secrecy that keep you from finding out your genealogy?
	You've been told that an agency, or social worker can't give you information because they have a contract with your birth mother to remain anonymous?
	You've been told that you'll be better off not knowing what lies on the other side

FOR YOUR READING ENJOYMENT WE'VE POSTED A BIRTH MOTHERS Actual Relinquishment Papers from a Catholick Charities adoption.

*your mission... is to find the confidentiality clause!

Don't forget to email us with your findings!

(This has been posted here for nearly 3 years . . . to date, no one has sent us an e-mail with the words "I wish to remain . . . " or "we will provide you with . . ." or anything even remotely indicating a veil or promise of secrecy.)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Seek and you shall learn. Ask the learned, and you shall find a new path to seek".

...jlillis, adoptee