"Good cause" is a very broad term.  In order to have my father's adoption record unsealed, we would have to show "good cause."  An example we were given is "you will face imminent death due to medical concerns if the file is not unsealed."  Well.....that wasn't exactly our issue.  We do have our share of health issues, as well as physical and intellectual disabilities in our family, but that was not the reason we wanted the file.  Obtaining that file would acknowledge that my father had an…

My grandfather was from Plymouth, Indiana.  It said so on his death certificate and on Iowa census records.  My dad's brothers said their father was from Indiana and had a sister that had stayed there.  The adoption file office in Des Moines stated that my grandfather was from Plymouth, Indiana.  When we searched, we searched in Indiana.  We found nothing.  This didn't surprise us, after all, Charles Brown is a very common name.  We contacted a woman at the Marshall County Indiana…

NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

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When I decided to start hard core research, I was lucky enough that my dad's half sister had quite a bit of information on their mom's side of the family.  Within just several weeks, I was able to trace my grandmother's maternal side back to the late 1600's - Van Houten and Duselder.  Everything was well documented and pretty much just laid out in front of us.  Her paternal side posed a bit of a problem.  Her father died when she was 14 and his mother had married several times and had…

PBS’ “GENEALOGY ROADSHOW” SEASON TWO

UNCOVERS FAMILY SECRETS ACROSS THE U.S.

Premieres January 13 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS

Unlock the Past Cruises schedule 2015–16

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What's on my mind? So much...ancestry DNA led some search angels and I to my biological father...pure elbow grease and dogged determination led to the identity of my birthmother. I now know where my genetic roots lay. A lovely search angel spoke with my birthmother a little while ago, apparently she's kept up with medical info for me , and asked for my name and number. I'm hoping she does reach out to my little family at some point, if for no other reason than to…

This  morning I got a post from Audrey Stetson from InDepth.  Linkedin.com area for responding.

Audrey posted about Free On line Courses offered by  BYU Independent Study.

Where has this information been?  At least it has been found and exposed.  So I am saying to you all

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Check this out and take advantage of it.  Some very…

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Phone 703-525-0050 or 800-473-0060

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