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  • Jan 2001 - Approaching 50,000 registrations in the online public database.

  • Jul 2000 - Working on large people databases.

  • May 1999 - Online search engine added.

I wrote an online search engine for maintaining the public component of the registry on the net.

  • Feb 1998 - Run-off-the-net

We were shut-out of the net amidst accusations that we were giving-it-away free and hogging too much bandwith (guilty on both counts).

So, here's the deal. If you make the newsgroup posting, it's ok. If I do-it for you, it's considered to be unwanted stuff (spam) - you figure it out.

  • Jul 1997 - Great Site Award

You have received the Adoption.com Great Site Award. This award is presented each day to a different adoption-related site that demonstrates quality of content and/or design. Thank you for the fabulous service that you and your site are providing to the online adoption community. Your creativity and long hours are making a difference.

  • Dec 1996 - Internet World Magazine - Best of the Net

[Quoted from People Power, by Linda J. Engelman; January 1997 issue of Internet World Magazine, page 45. Part of a series entitled "Best and Worst of the Net 1996"]

"BEST People Locators Online From out of the quagmire of the Internet this year have come lots of new and improved methods for finding lost family and friends, including:

Archives of adoptees and birth families who are using the Internet to find each other. Two of the best are World Wide Registry and ...

  • Sep 1995 - I created our alt.adoption.searching newsgroup in Usenet.
  • Received Honorable Mention in:

    July '96 - People Magazine
    Dec. '96 - Self Magazine
    Jan. '97 - National Enquirer
    May '97 - Health and Fitness Magazine
    July '97 - The Seeker Magazine