[Mavanna]

I just found out the people who were doing my search were scamming people. Finding my birth family feels so hopeless now. I keep grasping for a glimpse of what they are like but I can never seem to reach.

Right now I am at a time in my life where I feel like something is pushing me to see how far I can go before breaking. All I want is that one look at where and who i come from. I can't help but feel like I am asking too much now

Registries have turned up nothing, hope cottage just runs me in circles and told me that they cannot give me any contact info on the grounds that i am not emotionally ready for contact therefore am not eligible for contact. I don't know the court the adoption was approved by and I don't know if that is enough to go on.

I have non-identifying info, that gives me my mothers and three siblings ages at the time of my birth and that my mother was a twin.

[FAYE56]

Mavanna

Sorry to hear about your experience. I know what your going through - I had an Agency take my $$$ with lots of verbal promises, only to produce zilch.

Anyway, at least in my case, I received my non-id from the Catholic Charities in Paterson, NJ so that meant my adoption took place out of Passaic County, so that was where I petitioned the Courts.

Good Luck!