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The inaugural issue introduces the newsletter’s search, support, and adoption-reform aims. William L. Gage recounts his search for his German birth family and learning of his mother’s death; practical features introduce Leonie Boehmer and contacting German adoption offices.
A profile of Britain’s NORCAP support organization accompanies discussion of intercountry adoption and identity. Personal search accounts and a profile of Jenny Jansen appear alongside guidance on requesting U.S. immigration records.
The issue describes International Social Services in Germany and the newsletter’s self-help approach, and prints corrections to earlier coverage. Search journals by Arthur LaMelle and Siglinda Splain accompany a German-language model letter for requesting adoption information.
The WOMB computer bulletin board brings adoption-reform discussion and search support online. The issue also reports on the American Adoption Congress conference, offers search guidance, and publishes readers’ accounts of finding family.
Leonie Boehmer discusses cultural duality and integration for German-born adoptees. Other features explain immigration-record requests, review the film Immediate Family, report reunions, and describe a German court decision concerning information about biological fathers.
Christa Hertgen describes visiting her daughter Kathy in the United States, with accounts in English and German. Editorial reflections connect family reunion with German reunification, while Kathy Hearne and readers discuss adoption, belonging, and reconnecting with birth family.
A report on New Zealand’s access-to-records system examines applications, contact vetoes, and the experience of adoptees and birth parents. Readers’ letters include a German reunion account, and the editor introduces the magazine Reunions.
William L. Gage explores dual nationality and the question of German or American identity. Search guidance discusses German social workers and reviewing adoption files; related features consider language, German culture, and Of German Ways.
Mother-and-son and sibling reunions anchor this issue, including Martin Wendnagel’s letter from Germany. Further coverage discusses adoption-record restrictions and a U.S. court settlement concerning children of American servicemen overseas.
Inga Schou’s account of relinquishment introduces the Danish search-and-support group Stamtræet. The first installment of Michael Taylor’s search journal explores German family connections and postwar hardship, while another feature offers support for Italian-born adoptees.
A feature considers whether and how to learn German for search and reunion. Michael Taylor’s journal concludes, alongside coverage of German society, adoption-related news, and a review of Germany: The Empire Within.
Leonie Boehmer discusses the experiences of biracial adoptees and possible reactions to reunion in Germany. The issue also includes travel advice, a birth mother’s search journal, a letter to a sister, and an account of reunion after decades of separation.
English-language influence on German is explored in Englisch über Alles. Newspaper accounts describe family reunions and long searches, including a German father’s search for his son, while a quoted passage discusses intercountry adoption.
John Cameron’s address, The End of the Beginning, critiques secrecy and closed adoption and argues for reform. A search journal describes tracing German birth relatives and reconnecting with siblings separated by adoption.
A featured reader’s letter and Sharon Harris’s search journal recount reconnecting with German birth family, including questions about race and acceptance. Additional letters and a Newsweek feature consider childhood and attitudes toward children in Germany.
Coverage follows adoption-information access reform in Australia and New Zealand and introduces a reunion registry. Stories of sisters reunited through their grandmother and other family searches accompany readers’ letters about the continuing adjustment after reunion.
The supplied file includes the hate-speech debate, Cyndi Miller’s search journal, and family-reunion reporting also found in issue 18. Its cover and footers carry conflicting issue and date labels; this summary describes the supplied file rather than establishing the contents of the intended issue 17.
The Urge to Outlaw Hate compares German and American approaches to hate speech. Cyndi Miller’s journal and other readers’ accounts describe finding German birth relatives; brief coverage also discusses proposed adoptions of Bosnian infants.
A family separated by the Nazis reunites after 51 years. Birth-mother and adoptee accounts examine relinquishment, racism, and reunion, including Donna Coltress’s search journal; additional coverage addresses German family-policy debates.
Kathleen Riley’s Search for the Past explores the emotional and practical steps in finding her birth mother. Mary Holtzman’s journal and a letter from her sister recount reconnecting with German relatives and learning the circumstances of her adoption.
A German-born Dutch woman traces family roots in Michigan, while Gabriela Fulcher describes a Mother’s Day breakthrough in her search. Kathleen Riley’s account continues, and a British mother-and-son reunion illustrates the complexities of sustaining contact.
Back to the Future reports a German-family reunion, and an Irish adoptee seeks access to his birth certificate through the courts. Jeff LaCure begins Remembering, reflecting on adoption and childhood, while another feature examines Germany’s rules for naming children.
Lissa Forbes-Knoche begins The USA Meets Germany: Too Many Years Apart, reflecting on identity and the start of her search. Darrin Schutt contributes a search journal, and Jeff LaCure’s Remembering continues through adolescence and early adulthood.
A woman in Oregon meets her German birth mother after 38 years, and Lissa Forbes-Knoche concludes her reunion account. Gary Freeman’s Who I Was Is Gone and readers’ letters explore identity, family knowledge, and the emotions surrounding search.
Mother-and-daughter and sibling reunions accompany the first installment of Martin Textor’s study of German adoption social workers. The issue contrasts search experiences and introduces the study’s findings on adoption services, policy, and professional attitudes.
Terri Snow begins her account of finding three siblings separated by adoption. Martin Textor’s study concludes with social workers’ attitudes toward birth mothers, adoptive applicants, searching adoptees, and international adoption.
Terri Snow’s sibling-search account concludes, with related newspaper coverage and a reunion update. A California woman reconnects with birth parents in Austria, and letters discuss searching, family history, and adoption-reform organizations.
Renewing Broken Bonds and Debbie Clary’s Two Searches, Two Reunions describe reconnecting with birth relatives after long separations. Readers’ letters add accounts of family discoveries, correspondence, and the anticipation of meeting siblings.
A feature on Liberation Children calls for cooperation in tracing fathers who served overseas. Melody Zielinski recounts a mother-and-daughter reunion, while German Life excerpts discuss English influences on German and spelling reform.
The Sister She Left Behind recounts a long-separated sibling relationship. A personal search journal, readers’ letters, and a feature on using the Internet to trace a mother explore identity, search assistance, and reconnecting across borders.
Olga and Lloyd Rains’s work tracing wartime families accompanies reporting on children seeking American servicemen fathers. The issue also examines Irish children sent to the United States for adoption and efforts to reunite Vietnam-era families.
A mother and son reunite after 34 years, and Catherine Watkins recounts her own search in It’s a Small World. Further reunion accounts and a feature on language learning explore the practical and emotional challenges of reconnecting with family.
An excerpt from Peter Dodds’s Outer Search/Inner Journey follows a search in Germany and the inner questions it raises. A Texas woman finds her mother after 41 years; readers’ letters and a research notice add perspectives on adult adoptee experience.
A Child With Three First Names follows an Irish-born adoptee’s search and the history of pressured relinquishment. Robert Tracy explains locating his adopted children’s relatives, while Co-Sons and Friends-in-Law reflects on language for family relationships.
A San Antonio woman finds new support through German relatives, and another adoptee describes a joyous contact with birth family. Further personal accounts and correspondence consider reunion, adoptive-family feelings, and the ongoing meaning of adoption.
Prescilla White and Christopher James describe the beginnings and complications of reunion. Peter Dodds’s conference workshop, The Case Against International Adoption, considers cultural loss, identity, and ethical concerns in overseas adoption.
An Internet-assisted search connects a South African woman with family in Germany. Other features cover German and Korean reunions, review Outer Search/Inner Journey, and correct an earlier listing of search-assistance resources.
A German-born adoptee describes support from Chosen Children’s Charities and the progress of her family search. A mother’s translated letter and other correspondence consider the circumstances of relinquishment, grief, and continuing family connections.
An Oklahoma minister prepares to meet his German father, with a follow-up report on their reunion. Teresa Dodd’s search journal and letters examine tracing relatives and differing views of international adoption and cultural belonging.
Several reports describe German-family searches aided by officials, researchers, and personal persistence. The issue also recounts a reunion following separation in a concentration camp and covers German spelling reform and reunion among siblings separated by adoption.
A feature on Berlin’s numbered trees illustrates German administration and urban life. Man Honors Father He Never Knew explores remembrance of a wartime father, while Reunions Follow Successful Search recounts meetings with German relatives.
Finding Wartime Fathers and related reporting follow adults searching for American G.I. fathers after World War II. Another account describes a woman welcoming German relatives as she learns more about her birth mother and family history.
An Auschwitz survivor reunites with her son, and a letter from Germany brings another woman new family connections. Karin Schreurs’s search and additional personal accounts consider identity, long searches, and learning the circumstances of adoption.
Randy Norman begins My Search for Myself, a four-part account of growing up adopted and tracing his birth parents. This installment follows requests for German and U.S. records, contact with his father, and the search for his mother and siblings.
Shirley Price begins A Little Brown Baby, reflecting on growing up as an Afro-German adoptee, race, language, and the decision to search. Randy Norman’s journal continues with visits to birth relatives and a journey to Germany.
Shirley Price concludes her Afro-German adoption and search account, with related Black German resources. Coverage of German citizenship reform accompanies the third installment of Randy Norman’s journal, which reflects on family meetings and the loss of his mother.
On the Verge of Exile reports the threatened deportation of an internationally adopted man who lacked U.S. citizenship. Randy Norman concludes his journal with reflections on leaving and returning to German family; brief notices cover child-welfare news in Germany.
Two accounts follow Helga Gordon’s search for birth family and her reunion with a brother. Reporting on people born through the Nazi Lebensborn program examines secrecy, family origins, and the varied outcomes of searching.
Kindertransport features recount children’s escape from Nazi Germany, separation from family, and later remembrance, including a theatrical treatment of the history. An update from Shirley Price and a family-reunion account add adoptee perspectives.
Leonie Boehmer’s Selected Cases From My Files revisits searches by Christopher James and other correspondents, including reunion, loss, and unfinished questions. Lost & Found Father follows an adult’s search for his biological father.
Kathleen Riley returns to Germany to meet her birth father in This Is Also a Family. Other features examine the treatment of Norwegian children of German servicemen and a search for an American father, alongside readers’ updates.
Long searches reconnect sisters separated during World War II and help adoptees find siblings and parents in Europe. A Full Heart & Empty Arms recounts an Irish mother’s experience of relinquishment and reunion, placing personal stories beside institutional histories.
A Clarksville man meets a daughter he never knew, while other reports follow German- and Greek-family searches. The issue also discusses debates over English words in German and reports the introduction of automatic citizenship for certain foreign-born adopted children.
Claudia Guderian reflects on early separation, bodily memory, and belonging in On the Use of Being Left by One’s Mother at Birth. Jim Sweeney’s search journal describes finding and contacting his birth mother; the issue also includes a newsletter financial statement.
We Are Family explores the emerging use of DNA tests in family-history research. Other features follow Izidor Ruckel’s return to Romania, remember Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust, and publish a reader’s search-and-reunion update.
A former police investigator traces his father’s service in the German SS and meets paternal relatives. A review of Strange Relations examines adoption and a medical search, while a reader describes recovering German family history and reconnecting with relatives.
Sibling Revelry Unites Family follows an adoptee’s discovery of two half-sisters and a half-brother. William L. Gage resumes the search journal begun in issue 1, reflecting on sibling relationships, loss, and unanswered questions, alongside a reader’s reunion account.