Other Seekers
from my search group, with their permission
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These are some of the people in my monthly group. Some are adoptees like me, looking for a birth mother or father. Two are birth mothers, looking for the children they gave up. Each one asked me to put their notice here, and each one read it over before I did.
If anything here rings a bell (a birth date, a town, a detail somebody's aunt once mentioned), please write to me at [email protected] and I will pass your letter along that same day. I will never give out anyone's address or last name without asking them first, on either side.
Most of us are also signed up with the State's voluntary registry. If you think you might be someone's birth parent or someone's child, please sign up there too. It only works when both people do.
MARJORIE adoptee
Born: October 2, 1934, Portland, Oregon
Lived in a children's home in Portland until she was nearly three, then adopted by a couple in Albany. She remembers a lady in a green coat who visited the home and cried, and has always wondered. Her adoptive mother told her once that her birth mother was "a farm girl from the valley."
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PAUL adoptee
Born: August 21, 1934, The Dalles, Oregon
Adopted at birth by a wheat-farming family in Sherman County. His non-identifying papers say he had a sister, two years older, who stayed with the birth mother. Paul would very much like to meet his big sister. She would be sixty-seven.
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KATHERINE birth mother
Searching for a son born: December 11, 1965, Portland, Oregon
Katherine was eighteen and living in a maternity home in Portland. She held her son once, for about ten minutes, and named him Joel in her heart. He was placed through an agency when he was a few days old. She says: "I don't want to interrupt your life. I want you to know I never stopped thinking about you, and I have a family medical history to give you if you want it."
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LEAH adoptee
Born: March 30, 1949, Medford, Oregon
Adopted at six weeks and raised in Grants Pass. She has red hair and has never known anyone else in her family who did. Her papers say her birth father was "in the service" and her birth mother was twenty-two and a telephone operator.
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EARL adoptee
Born: June 7, 1951, Pendleton, Oregon
Raised on a cattle ranch in eastern Oregon by the best folks you could ask for, he says. He started looking after his own son was born with a heart condition and the doctors kept asking about family history. His birth mother may have been from Idaho.
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ANTHONY adoptee
Born: November 19, 1956, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Adopted at birth by a family who moved to Portland when he was four. He was told his birth parents were "very young and very Catholic." He is a high school band teacher and would love to know where the music came from.
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DIANA birth mother
Searching for a daughter born: May 24, 1977, Eugene, Oregon
Diana was a high school senior. Her daughter was born a week before graduation and placed through an agency in Eugene. Diana has been on the State registry for years. "If you're out there, honey, I signed up a long time ago, and I keep my address current. The door's open whenever you're ready."
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CYNTHIA adoptee
Born: January 15, 1964, Astoria, Oregon
Adopted at two months and raised in Beaverton. She is expecting her first baby this winter and would like to give her child a little more of the family tree than she ever had.
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SEAN adoptee
Born: July 3, 1966, Salem, Oregon
Born right here in Salem and adopted by a family in Corvallis. He has an adoption decree, a birthday cake every July 3, and nothing else. "I'm not angry at anybody. I'd just like to see a face that looks like mine."
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MICHAEL adoptee
Born: September 12, 1974, Bend, Oregon
The youngest in our group. Michael's papers say he was the third child of a married couple who couldn't keep him, which means he may have two older brothers or sisters somewhere in central Oregon. He would be glad to hear from any of them.
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Not from Oregon?
Measure 58 only helps those of us born in Oregon, and only adoptees, not birth parents. If you were born somewhere else, the rules are different in every state, and most of them are closed. Look for a search group near you. You don't have to do this alone.
A birth mother in Wichita named Janice has a page called Searching for My Son. She is looking for the baby boy she had in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 9, 1973. If you were born in Kansas City that spring, please go read it. She wrote it the same way I'd want my own mother to.
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Notices updated Monday, September 20, 1999. Group members, call me if anything changes.
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