Simple Guide To Tracing A Birth Parent

Provided by www.birthparent.co.uk

Most Birth Parent investigations cannot be successfully completed by the general public.
http://www.birthparent.co.uk/ are tracing agents, probate researchers and private detectives.
We believe we offer a cost effective birth parent tracing service to those persons looking
to trace missing family member. Our Birth parent/adoption 2008 success rate was 84%.

Tracing people subject to an adoption order or a natural birth parent is a
Specialist service and often involves many hours of research to conclude an
Investigation. It is estimated that there are currently over 1 Million people within
UK subject to an adoption order. Formal adoption laws and practices first came
Into force during 1927. You can imagine most adoptions either formal or private
resulted in a complete and total loss of contact with the natural birth family. That
situation causes immense anguish not only to the adoptee but also on occasions
to the birth parent who in our experience may have endured many years
agonising over a very difficult decision often at a very young age or whilst in a
vulnerable position.

It is very important that all investigations are carried out with the utmost care by
our investigators. If the case involves an adoption prior to 12 Nov 1975 you are
obliged to receive counselling prior to any disclosure by local social services of
any relevant information to you. If the adoption took place after 11 Nov 1975 you
can choose whether or not you want to see a counsellor. Section 98 Adoption
Children Act 2002 makes it possible or at least makes a provision for birth
relatives to seek information from an intermediary service. Adopted people also
have a statutory right to access an intermediary service to initiate contact with
birth relatives.

Emotional support is required not only at the outset but throughout and after the
search, in our experience rejection either by the natural birth parent or the
adopted child can be very difficult to accept and all persons interested in
searching for a missing person should be prepared for rejection or knowledge that
the person has died. It is very important to be honest with yourself regarding
your expectations! To be brutally honest many birth fathers upon being traced
are overjoyed at being traced by a long lost birth child; he might equally be
hostile or at best indifferent, he may be in a long term relationship with children,
he may never have disclosed to his current partner aspects of his history? Tracing
agents are not normally blessed with a crystal ball and cannot foresee the
reaction of the person being traced although it is equally fait to say, if you do not
trace them, you will never know.

Many an adoptee and/or birth parents may have spent many hours carrying out
basic and rudimentary on-line searches for information; many of these
investigations will have been frustrated by the lack of accurate information
available on the internet. That is why we always recommend investigations into
either an adoption or a birth parent are carried out by experienced investigators
who have the necessary access to the best data sources money can buy.
The most common reason for searching is an overwhelming desire to understand
and discover what physical and or emotional traits they have inherited from their
birth parents. That burning desire to find the truth can be all consuming.

Clearly the more core information the client can supply the more chance of a
successful trace being completed. The best source of information regarding an
adoption is normally held by the adoption society/local social services or the
adoptive parents and dependant upon the core base information available a
number of avenues of investigations are open to our investigators.


It is true to say most investigations will involve an absence of contact for perhaps
thirty or forty years and in many cases no contact since the first 32 weeks of
birth.

To succeed in our tracing we will need to research extensively all available
records to identify further events either past or present, these events could be any or all of the
following if our investigation in to the primary trace subject is required:


1. Marriage/divorce records.
2. Births of children to either parent. Either full or Half related siblings
3. Death, further research may be required to identify surviving direct family
4. Emigration records / current residence within UK
5. Title deeds to properties to identify ownership details.
6. Possible investigations into a deceased estate ( probate), especially if the traced
individual has died intestate.

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Good Luck in your search for closure. Should you have any further questions
please feel free to ask either on line: question@trace4u.co.uk or via telephone
Local Rate: 0844 88 42 831