Registrar's Report
For the week of January 05, 2008.
Match Status Updated January 12 & 23, 2008.
Happy 2008
May each of you have a safe, healthy, happy and productive new year.
And may you be reunited with the family you seek.
Patterns
Often we see patterns in the registrations we receive and the matches
that occur. Sometimes it is many registrations arriving together,
where the adoptees were born in the same town or hospital. Once we
had three matches in the same week all with the same last name.
Another time we reunited two Mary's with two April's in the same
week. This week there were registrations involving twins in five
different states.
Twins ~ Over the last month or so,
we have seen twins surface in a variety of ways. First there was the
twins who had both registered with only one knowing they might be a
twin. Then the birthmother who sent in two registrations, not
knowing if her twins were raised together or apart -- one of the
twins had registered with ISRR in 2003. Another possible set of
twins, where neither had any idea they might have a twin or even a
sibling -- are both now trying to get non-identifying information
and confirmation from the agency. And finally, a woman who has
identified that she was not a single birth after all, and who is in
touch with others delivered by the same doctor where in each case
one twin seems to have 'disappeared'. Sad and almost
incomprehensible.
*Since first posting this report, many news articles have been
published on a set of twins who were separated at birth and adopted
by different sets of parents who later married each other and were
recently granted an annulment after finding out they were brother
and sister. Click here if you would like to read articles from the
Associated Press or
Agence France Presse.
Always interesting were the presentations by Tom Bouchard who
originally headed the Study for Twins Reared Apart launched in 1979
at the University of Minnesota.
Click here to Google him if you'd like to learn more. Or to see
a 1998 Washington Post article on
"The Mysteries of Twins", click here.
Hope ~
Only a few weeks ago we received a registration from an adoptee born
in 1928. Her birthmother had registered with us in 1986. There is always hope and
usually ways to acquire more data on your family. We want to
encourage you to click on "Get
More Info" for guidelines to assist you in acquiring additional
information. So often, one more piece can complete the puzzle or
help us determine relationship. Gather as much information as you
can and please remember to send us updates.
New Registrations & Updates
On average ISRR receives somewhere between 100 and 300 new
registrations each week. Processed this first week of 2008 were:
New
Registrations ~ 227 + 209
Updates ~ 54 + 24
International ~ Canada, Japan, Moldova (twins)
Matches
Ten new matches were
opened to start the New Year. As you can see it has been very busy.
AL 1954
-
Completed
AZ 1969
-
Completed
CO 1960
- Data Requested
FL 1968
- Data Requested
IA 1969
-
Completed
KS 1968
-
Completed
MO 1977
-
Completed
NC 1964
-
Completed
NC 1967
-
Completed
VA 1972
- Data Requested
OPEN CASE FILES: There
are currently 4 additional open cases awaiting conclusion -- NC
1964 - Completed, NC 1966, NE 1969, NJ 1944. Plus 2 older ones pending -- DE
1967 and DE
1975.
CLOSED CASE FILES: Twelve
cases were completed CA 1967, CO 1968, CT 1964, FL 1964, FL 1965, LA
1969, MA 1966, MN 1965, NC 1969, NE 1971, PA 1955, WA 1965 and WA 1976.
last registrar's
report
Missing Registrants
Since Spring of 2007 we revisited 54 older and unresolved matches, where one or more
of the registrants did not keep their contact information current
with ISRR. Most of those have been concluded. However, the following
need more information from one or both of the registrants - to
determine if it is indeed a match. Often only a current address or
phone number is required to put the parties together.
AZ 10-15-1965
- Closed
FL 02-17-1964
NY 03-17-1970- Closed
NY 12-19-1974- Closed
WA 08-06-1961
WA 08-21-1961
WA 12-19-1961- Closed
If you think your address
or phone number may be out-of-date with ISRR, please click on
UPDATE , download the form, fill
it out, sign it and mail to ISRR. Until the Imaging Project is
finished, our staff will not be able to take updates or changes over
the phone, by fax or email. We are sorry for this inconvenience, however,
ask you to understand that we are working just as fast and hard as
possible ... there is only so much of us to go around!
Imaging Project. This project continues. California has
been completed. There is now only one state now left to prep, scan
and index. We left New York until last because there were going to
be differences in the preparation process and some programming
changes were needed to allow for the boroughs. It won't be long
before the entire Registry will be in the new digitized system. For more
information click here to see archives of the Registrar's Report.
Imaging
Please always remember that you are not alone. We receive
many thousands of new registrations each year and do matches nearly
every single day. There are search and support resources all over
the world, and hundreds of thousands who have gone before you in a
quest for family.
We work hard to keep this
registry free to registrants and are grateful for your generous
contributions which allows this service to continue uninterrupted since
1975.
Report
submitted January 6, 2008 & Updated January 12 & 23, 2008.
by ISRR
Registrar, Marri J. Rillera.
