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Hi Julia

Thank you very much for your advice I will try this but I don't hold out much hope with my local MP here.

As when my local MP has been approached by my husband for other reasons he never ever receives any replies from him.

Hi Janice

Thank you very much for your reply (its really unbelievable that they don't have any records of you fostering)

I must say once again that Social Services were useless and still are.

Hi Julia May

I took your advice and got my MP involved in this matter and it turned out that it all led to the original person I was dealing with at the beginning of it all, still the same answer files destroyed they still cannot tell me when they were destroyed and contracdictory e-mails once again from the person I was originally dealing with at the children's services

My MP was very quick and very helpful and my MP said that if I am still having difficulties then to contact him again which I will do so as soon as possible.

Darkie

Hi,
Unfortunately even if you were to be successful in obtaining your files they may well be censored to a point that they are virtually useless to you.
You may well have the "Right" to your file, but all I have found out is that Social Services and Archive Departments holding such information, run scared of the Data Protection Act and deny / hide everything.
Good luck
Herbert

Hi Ed

Thank you very much for your reply, I totally agree with you about the Social Services and Archive departments.

Regards

Darkie

Darkie,
a few years ago my friend who was adopted in London asked me to help her trace her mother.
We did not finish the process because she became uncertain about meeting her mother halfway through but here are some of the steps we took intially;

contact Norcap
http://www.norcap.org.uk/
01865 875000
They specialise in helping Adults Affected by Adoption in many ways and tracing relatives should you wish to do this. They also have a flow diagram showing the steps to follow.
They are so supportive and good to speak to. They are a charity.
Parents seeking their adoptive children can also register with Norcap who will reunite them - but only if the adoptive child wishes to do so.

I think Barnadoes offer a similar service.

There is also a directory of adoption agencies past and present and if they no longer exist it states who holds their records. You might be able to get a copy of this from the local library. Can't remember where I got my copy from but it was a family histroy archive - perhaps the PRO or Family Records Centre. You might be able to buy this online. Perhaps try amazon too?

My friend knew when she was adopted and from that I think we were was able to find her adotption order / registration and original name at the family records centre. Which is now closed but it is the GRO. You could call the GRO also see their page:-

Adoptions orders
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/faqs-adoption.asp

This gave us the name of the court where the aoption was arranged so we approached the local court to request the release of her papers. Think that was as far as I got but we made great progress.

I recently reunited my second cousins with a brother they never knew they had and he with sisters he never knew about. They were all elderly. He died last month but they really made the best of the year they all had together. Nobody had any regrets - except they'd wished they had been united much earlier. But it does not always work out successfully. Curiosity and the need to know is the driver but be prepared that you may not like everything you find out - which is fine provided you prepare yourself to accept any good withany bad.


Good Luck!!!
DNA

Nudge

Message edited 18/06/17 Sunday

Wish luck on your search. I watch the TV programs where they reunited lost families. I guess the time scale is too old to meet your mother, but I do hope you get some some answers . Too many little hitlers in council offices these day . Fraudsters can gain answers about persons, so any adopted person should most definitely have access to records. I guess some mothers do not want to be traced, but you should atleast be able to find out about YOUR past. Data Protection !!!!!

Hi Pauline

I do know my parent's now deceased and my family.

Just wanted my files because to feed down to my children including birth and stepchildren because they are always asking me questions some I could not answer.

Thank you very much for your reply much appreciated.

Agreed about Hitler's in Council offices, but this gentleman from the council that is helping me so much I cannot thank enough.

As you know your parentage Why not make a tree from the info you have. Your children will know their ancestors. I have grandchildren , and the things they have asked , have been "What did you do when you where evacuated !! AT the time they where studding ww2. I don't think thay are bothered too much about great grand parents and further back.In the future they will be able to find out even more on the web. I am sure it must be irritating not to have the documents, but you do have the answers, which is more than some have With modern technology , they look to the future , not the past. I am leaving a family tree in the hope that maybe , the great grandchildren , of which we currently have 2, may be interested.
It.s only in old age when you think about the past, and wish you asked questions about family