The Ultimate Search Book: U.S. Adoption, Genealogy & Other Search Secrets

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This is a completely up-to-date exposition of Lori CarangeloÔÇÖs mastery in finding adopted children, missing relatives, runaway children, and others that she has cultivated over her adult lifetime. The director of the organization Americans for Open Records, Carangelo explains (1) just how search experts get past the wall of secrecy and roadblocks to their loved ones; (2) how, in the case of adoptees, they find someone without a prior knowledge of the name; and (3) the trade secrets of both professional investigators and amateur sleuths for legally circumventing roadblocks to accessing information. In the process, she discusses numerous record categories that figure in the discovery process, including court dockets, adoption decrees, hospital records, baptismal certificates, DMV records, Social Security records, DNA testing, voter registrations, telephone records, military records, divorces, tax records, and much more.