This is a list to help adoptees who are either searching or living in the UK and Eire to trace their birth families. It is intended as a platform for the exchange of ideas between adoptees, birth parents and other people who are involved in the search. Suitable topics to post are 'how to search', useful search resources, success stories, appeals for advice, help, genealogical research.
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Adoptees-UKIE was started in 1997 by 3 adoptees with a UK connection to help adoptees and birth-parents who are living or searching in the UK and the Republic of Ireland with their search, and also so that they could exchange ideas, search techniques and experiences.
The Adoptees-UKIE Mailing List is run by:
Martin Burns martin@easyweb.co.uk
Jackie Lockwood owfish@inland.net
Howard Wilkins howardw.maygate@pipemedia.co.uk
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