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Adoption Resources: This link, by Debbie Mieszala CG, is a springboard for those interested in post-adoption searches, no matter the location. Links to information on adoption history, records access, search registries, links, and suggested reading, it will allow visitors to quickly locate items that relate to their search.
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RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees:
Family historians who are adoptees themselves or encounter an adopted or an orphaned ancestor often require additional and special research skills in order to solve the puzzle. In the United States many states' adoption laws creating so-called modern sealed records date back to 1920-40, and were patterned after the Minnesota Act of 1917. This act was not intended to maintain anonymity between the participants in an adoption, but rather to protect adopted children from the stigma of illegitimacy by removing such information from open court records. Sealed records sounded good on paper, but the system had flaws.
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