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- From: cschuldt@library.calpoly.edu (Carol Schuldt)
- Newsgroups: alt.adoption,talk.abortion
- Subject: How to search?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.234430.163223@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:44:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.031420.13061@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <1992Nov17.162934.9510@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov17.184533.29175@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: cschuldt@library.calpoly.edu
- Organization: Kennedy Library, Cal Poly, SLO
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- This is the first time I've ever posted to a newsgroup, so please forgive
- any errors I might make.
-
- I've been waiting for a group like this to appear. I've been trying to decide
- whether and/or how to try to find out about my birthparents for many years.
- I have medical problems that are probably inherited, and my doctors would very
- much like me to tell them my family history, which I can't do.
-
- There is so little I know about my birth. My adoptive parents didn't go through
- an adoption agency back in 1949, they just went to court with a lawyer. They
- don't even have any adoption papers, because the law office kept them in their
- files.
-
- I was born in Pasadena, Calif. in a hospital that has since burned down. The
- doctor who delivered me worked in Tujunga, CA and when I asked him for info
- he said that he didn't really remember anything (he is very elderly).
-
- My adoptive mother says that she thinks my birth mother's name was Adeleide
- (maybe) Tweedt (not sure of the spelling) and that she was in her 30's and
- had other children. That would make her in her 70's today, if she is still
- living.
-
- In California, birth records for adoptees are sealed and rarely reopened, as
- far as I know.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas that would help me get information? I have to
- mention that I don't have a lot of money to spend to hire an investigator.
-
- Thanks to anyone who might help. If my birthdate would help, its 4-24-49.
-
- My husband and I adopted our son in 1983, and his birth mother was kind
- enough to write him a letter with a lot of information in it while she
- was in labor. Although we never met, I feel very close to her and know
- how much love it took to give up her beautiful baby boy. I wish I could
- thank her!
-
- Well, I hope it didn't write too much.
-
- Carol Schuldt
- cschuldt@library.calpoly.edu
-