[Archive]

Originally Posted By CS

The Gladney Center- Ft. Worth, Texas

Adoptees & Birthparents
Have you registered with Gladney - now called The Gladney Center. Gladney now has a mutual consent registry for all their adoptees and birth parents. If you haven't registered, I recommend you do. You can call Gladney @ 817-922-6000 and ask for the Post Adoption Dept to get the registration information or you can go to their web site at www.Gladney.org to get the registration form.

Gladney cannot tell you the adoptee or birth parent has registered until you both have registered.

Registering will cost you 15.00.

Once both the adoptee and birth parent/birth relative have registered with Gladney - a match is declared and both parties notified.

The Gladney Center located in Ft. Worth, Texas has sold their current facilities on Hemphill Street to the Ft.Worth School District and are moving to a new facility on Bryant Irving Rd. also located in Ft. Worth. They have been in the process of moving for over a year now and may be completely moved in. So if the phone number I listed above has changed, call information to get the new number.

Birth Parent & Adoptee
When you contact Gladney ask for all "non-identifying information" they have on your birth child's adopted family/or birth mother, if you don't already have it.

You also need to ask if there has been any "activity or contact" in your file. Activity means any contact from the adoptee or adopted family or birth mother/birth family since the adoption. All contact is recorded in the adoptees and birth mothers file.

Did you know you can place letters and photo's of yourself in your Gladney file for your birth child or for your birth family?

Birth Parent -
It is very helpful and appreciated for the adoptee to have their birth parent (s) updated medical information in their file at the agency. If you
haven't sent in your current medical history I recommend you do.

I wish you all the best in your search for your birth child or birth parent(s).......

Candi
csmith@hcnews.com

[themuff]

I am looking for my first cousins. They were older children when their mother and father could not be located. My mother, Ruth Kelly Richardson and their grandmother Georgia Kelly, got them in Gladney home until they could locate my mother's brother, Onie Leon Kelly (the children's father is dead now and so is my mother and grandmother). The children were to be kept together and not adopted. Both my grandmother and my mother intended to get them if their parents could not be located (which turned out to be the case). I remember mother telling me that the Shriners helped get them into Gladney home. Linda Ann Kelly was around 8 years old. Her younger brother,s names were Randy Kelly (he must have been around 4 years old and the baby was David Wayne Kelly apprx 2 yrs old. Their parents had lived in Palestine, Texas. Their mother's name was Barbara Manning Kelly. I have been told that she, too, died. The year the children were sent to Gladney home was probably in the early 50's (probably 1958). I do not know what happened to the children and would like to contact them. Their paternal grandmother's name was Georgia Kelly (they called her "Mama Kelly". They also had a great uncle who lived with their grandmother (he was grandmothers brother). His name was Tom Black. My name is Martha Richardson (their first cousin), and I can be reached at 903-723-4754 or e-mail to mpolasek@dctexas.net. I have pictures of them when they were babies and one of Linda Ann when she attended Rusk Elementary school (in Palestine, Texas 1956-57).

[ryrys mom]

Originally posted by Archive
Originally Posted By CS

The Gladney Center- Ft. Worth, Texas

Adoptees & Birthparents
Have you registered with Gladney - now called The Gladney Center. Gladney now has a mutual consent registry for all their adoptees and birth parents. If you haven't registered, I recommend you do. You can call Gladney @ 817-922-6000 and ask for the Post Adoption Dept to get the registration information or you can go to their web site at www.Gladney.org to get the registration form.

Gladney cannot tell you the adoptee or birth parent has registered until you both have registered.

Registering will cost you 15.00.

Once both the adoptee and birth parent/birth relative have registered with Gladney - a match is declared and both parties notified.

The Gladney Center located in Ft. Worth, Texas has sold their current facilities on Hemphill Street to the Ft.Worth School District and are moving to a new facility on Bryant Irving Rd. also located in Ft. Worth. They have been in the process of moving for over a year now and may be completely moved in. So if the phone number I listed above has changed, call information to get the new number.

Birth Parent & Adoptee
When you contact Gladney ask for all "non-identifying information" they have on your birth child's adopted family/or birth mother, if you don't already have it.

You also need to ask if there has been any "activity or contact" in your file. Activity means any contact from the adoptee or adopted family or birth mother/birth family since the adoption. All contact is recorded in the adoptees and birth mothers file.

Did you know you can place letters and photo's of yourself in your Gladney file for your birth child or for your birth family?

Birth Parent -
It is very helpful and appreciated for the adoptee to have their birth parent (s) updated medical information in their file at the agency. If you
haven't sent in your current medical history I recommend you do.

I wish you all the best in your search for your birth child or birth parent(s).......

Candi
csmith@hcnews.com

You forgot to add the extra money, close to $350 they ask for after you sign up, so they can search!

[csmith]

The $350.00 fee you mentioned is only if you ask Gladney to do your search.

Requesting one's non-ID and registering with their mutual consent registry is something entirely different than paying Gladney to use their search services.

Paying Gladney to do a search for you is an option just as registering with their mutual consent registry and requesting one's non-ID. These are three separate services Gladney offers.

Candi