[sandybrit]

Searching for step sister's birth son, born July 18, 1996, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK. His birth name is Ian Dawes, birth mother, Jennifer K. Dawes. We have no adoption information.

[Fonenurse]

HI sandyBrit

Have you tried The Birth Parents and Adoptees site on msn?

There are also a couple of agencies which might be helpful for you too:

Post-Adoption Centre
5 Torriano Mews
Torriano Avenue
London NW5 2RZ
Phone 020 7284 0555
Fax 0870 777 2167

NORCAP
112 Church Road
Wheatley
Oxfordshire
OX33 1LU
01865 875000

After Adoption Yorkshire
31 Moor Road
Headingley
Leeds
LS6 4BG
0113 230 2100

Good luck for the search.

[Fonenurse]

Of course, having re-read the dates, I see the adoption took place in 1996 - this would make the child only 8, which will make the search more difficult. Was the adoption an open or closed one? You will really need to speak to one of these agencies to get further advice as the adoptee is still a child...

[Robin Harritt]

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I asume 1996 was typo, you mean 1966?

Have you contacted social services in the Shefield / south Yorkshire areas to see if they can be of any help? Sometimes SS departments are helpful sometimes not, you never know until you try.

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/sys_upl/...4191& tid=152

Also worth a try in that area

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Email: social.services@doncaster.gov.uk
Social Services Department
PO Box 251
The Council House
College Road
Doncaster
South Yorkshire, DN1 3DA

Tel: 01302 737777
Fax: 01302 737778

Work in conjunction with Doncaster Adotion and Family Welfare Society and offer a wide range of adoption services including birth records counselling.

[Fonenurse]

Thanks Robin, I hadn't noticed that before!

[sandybrit]

I have contacted Sheffield Social Services, they sent me a letter saying if my step sister would write to them, they maybe able to give her non identifying information. Do I not have the right to search for my Nephew myself??

[Robin Harritt]

None of has any *right* to search for an adopted person under the current law in England & Wales.

From next September (I hope) you will be able to request an adoption support agency to undertake a search at your expense and ascertain his wishes with regard to contact.

But you say that your sister is your stepsister, are you a blood or half blood relative of this 'nephew'? If not you would probably need your stepsister's consent for them to do the search.

If he were your half sister's son rather than your step sister's so that you had a blood relationship that would give you more rights. The term step sister refers to someone who is your sister as the result only of a marriage by step parent to one of your parents, but who has not have any blood relationship to you. If she were in fact your half sister rather than your step sister you should make that clear to the agencies and social services that you ask to help you.

Robin
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Robin

[sandybrit]

Robin, after fiinding my own son, and meeting him, earlier this year, I do know better than to approach my nephew should I find him, without first finding out his wishes as I did with my son.

My sister, is my half sister, we have the same mother. Thank you for the advise and help. Any other ideas?