Adoptees who want to identify and find their birth parents often turn to volunteer genealogical researchers for help. These "search angels" conduct painstaking, time-consuming searches that progress ...

When Bob MacNish was 22, his dying father told him that he’d been adopted. MacNish spent the next 50 years searching for his birth parents. Jayne Gastineau lost her adoptive mother, father and brother ...

All households across Minnesota received a postcard from the state providing information on how adopted individuals can access their birth records. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our ...

Penelope Needham advocated for the passage of the new law. A team of volunteers who joined her in this effort gave her a book illustrating its history. [MUSIC PLAYING] CATHY WURZER: Today, July the ...

Shawna Hodgson speaks at a Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs meeting. Every year on her birthday, Shawna Hodgson and her brother drive out to East Texas, and they visit her grave. Hodgson was ...