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Originally Posted by howard555
Roselvr will be along soon with numerous adoption links for you to pursue.
Hopefully Shivick is a not so common name.
Have you considered DNA testing?
The year you were adopted, the street address, city, state?
Name of the agency? Names of others in that neighborhood.
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Thanks Howard
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Originally Posted by Valsxy12
Given up for adoption...my last name was shivick..in Pennsylvania
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Have you ordered records from PA?
PENNSYLVANIA - ACCESS WITH RESTRICTIONS
Per
https://adopteerightslaw.com/pennsylvania-obc/
Pennsylvania law denies adult adoptees unrestricted access to their original birth certificates.The state allows birthparents to request redaction of their names from the original birth certificate.
A new Pennsylvania law, effective November 3, 2017, allows adoptees who are at least 18 years of age—and who must be high school graduates, possess a GED, or are withdrawn legally from school— to request their original birth record. Birth parents may redact identifying information on the OBC by filing a “name redaction request.” Redaction requests may be filed or withdrawn at any time and do not extend beyond a filing parent’s death.
Forms and information related to the new law are available on the Pennsylvania Department of Health website.
Have you done DNA? I have a tutorial on how to take your DNA from ancestry or 23 and me then upload your to My Heritage and GEDmatch for free ethnicity and family matches and FTDNA for free family matching. I suggest Ancestry because they're the easiest to connect DNA to a tree which is in my tutorial.
Family tree and DNA general instructions
Have you registered on adoption reunion? That's where I found my brother. I have a tutorial for that too. My brother couldn't be found using the state, just his DOB and male because he didn't fill out the form correctly which cost us a few years.
Info from a blog I wrote. Please post back to let us know what you've tried and what you haven't.
The most important site to register on is
Adoption Reunion Registry. Make sure you do not lose your log in info & be sure to keep your info current.
Do a search on
Adoption reunion registry. Try your search different ways;
1st would be gender; DOB; birth place. Do not select *searching for
If there are no matches; start by removal of gender; then removal of birth place
Adoption Reunion also has a
message board. The main board is
Search & Reunion. There are various ways to search there. By
state; by
Agency or Maternity Home;
by year; also
International Search & Reunion
ADOPTION REUNION WEB SITES-
ISSR - International Soundex Reunion Registry - is the oldest registry; started way back in the days before there was an Internet, so it has a lot of entries. Download the form; send via snail mail to register. ISRR allows any family member to register including aunts, uncles, cousins.. Other registries are pretty limiting to parents and siblings.
G'S Adoption Registry
Troys List
FARR - Florida Adoption Reunion Registry - Fees: one time fee of $35 unless proof of financial hardship (i.e. eligibility for unemployment, SSI, public assistance, etc.) In these cases
fees may be waived. $10 fee to update information
adopting back web site
You can also try a
Family Search. See
sample search results for Event: Birth, Place: Miami Florida, Event Range: 1950-1950, Country:United States
Facebook related - There are many adoption related pages and groups on FB, here are a few to start you off
DNA Detectives if doing DNA.
FIND ME I AM ADOPTED
Adopting back our children / Adoptees Terminating Our Adoptions
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