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trying to find my friends birth mother

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Karen

Karen Report 20 Aug 2004 17:46

HI HOPE SOME1 CAN HELP US IN OUR SEARCH WE ARE LOOKING FOR MY FRIENDS BIRTH FAMILY .MY FRIEND WAS BORN ON THE 16TH SEPTEMBER 1962 TO CATHERINE TENNANT &JOHN SMITH IN BLACKPOOL HIS BIRTH MOTHER WAS FROM POLLACK IN SCOTLAND NOT SURE ABOUT HIS DAD THOUGH MY FRIEND WAS NAMED DAVID TENNANT ANY INFO ANYBODY CAN GIVE US WOULD BE GREAT .DAVID IS NOW CALLED ALLEN 7ALTHOUGH HE HAD A HAPPY CHILDHOOD WITH HIS ADOPTED FAMILY HE WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT HIS BIRTH FAMILY SO IF ANY1 CAN HELP CONTACT ME THROUGH THIS SITE PLEASE KAREN BISHOP (FAMILY FRIEND OF ALLEN WILLIAMS)

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Unknown Report 20 Aug 2004 18:10

Please put this on the Trying to Find board - click on the top of this message board where it says click here under Add Message. Also, you will need to contact Social Services. Info from this site: "Adoption Before formal adoption came into existence 1927 it can be very difficult to discover the original name of an adopted child. Thereafter, the adopted person (or their next-of-kin if they are deceased) can apply for the original birth certificate to the Registrar General's office at the Office for National Statistics, General Register Office (Adoption Section), Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Southport, Merseyside, PR2 2HH, who will issue an application form. People adopted before 12 November 1975 you will need to attend a 'Birth Records Counselling Interview'. Smedley Hydro also maintain a National Adoption Contact Register for England and Wales, where adopted people and relations of people who were adopted can register their interest in being reunited, a function now mirrored, unofficially, by Genes Reunited. Clearly, adoption is a very sensitive issue and all first contact between adopted children and their original families should be handled as sensitively as possible by all parties concerned." Nell