| I am the director of a search and support group in Battle Creek Michigan. We work with
birthparents and adoptee's. Over the past 10 years, we have compiled a registry of
Michigan adoptee's and birthparents. The database has information from other support
groups in Michigan, and entries from AOL, Prodigy, and the internet. At this point they
have close to 5000 entries. I am an adoptee, found birthmom 4 years ago, and she
chooses not to have contact. I went on and found my siblings since I had four older than
me that she kept. I have been director of Adoption Connections of Battle Creek for over 3
years now, I am a certified confidential intermediary for the state of Michigan, in fact
had to do the training on search via computer <G> (just not the internet!) I do
searches for 15 different counties in Michigan, and also help those who want to search on
the outside.
I have done about 225 intermediary searches, and would say put at least 500 families
together, if not more that I don't know about. (some people never get back in touch with
us on the results.)
I have mutual release forms, and would have both parties sign them before a release was
made.
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