adopted persons and birth family members search and be in contact with each other.
ALMA, Alma Society
ALMA - The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA)
almasociety.org
anderson@almasociety.org
https://www.facebook.com/groups/109344539097611
ALMA, the pioneer organization in fighting for the rights of adoptees everywhere, is the oldest, most comprehensive and successful registry of its kind, founded by adoptee, Florence Fisher in 1971. Alma’s extensive registry is augmented by search help from volunteer staffers with years of experience in helping
adopted persons and birth family members search and be in contact with each other. ALMA, Alma Society ALMA - The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) almasociety.org anderson@almasociety.org https://www.facebook.com/groups/109344539097611
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Robert George Wilson
6/25/2015 06:56:20 am
Looking for my birth certificate. Born August 23, 1941 in Union Township(Jutland), New Jersey at home.
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11/30/2016 08:37:27 am
Please go to our web site, www.nj-care.org to find the form and instructions to apply for a copy of your original birth certificate. Please read the instructions; they are essential. Your OBC will be mailed to you in early January if you apply now.
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12/16/2020 07:07:36 am
My daughter Celeste sent 25.00 to receive her siblings OBC. We were told by ALMA that she is entitled to that. Her submission was rejected because she didn't have enough information. Only the name of her adopted sister and her adopted family name. She had everything else. So we were told just to send in what we had. Is there anything more that a sibling can do access their sister's OBC? 3/21/2018 04:56:33 am
Dear Robert,
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8/3/2020 07:11:59 am
Dear Robert,
Jessica
2/17/2016 02:39:44 pm
Besides donating money I would like to donate my time. What can I do to help?!
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Vivian
2/18/2016 04:31:12 am
I would like to be a volunteer
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Jerry M. Marr
4/13/2016 12:10:42 pm
I am at age 77 and I am wanting to know my birth parent(s) IF possible. I was adopted in Tyler, Smith Co., Texas, in 1939. Can the ALMA help me and is there anyone in the Tyler area that I need to contact?
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3/21/2018 05:08:23 am
I suggest joining/registering with 3/21/2018 04:58:56 am
Please contact njcare.staff@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering.
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Carrie
2/18/2016 05:20:36 pm
I'd like to get more information on volunteering
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Vanessa Glenn
2/18/2016 08:35:50 pm
I saw that they were looking for volunteers to host babies until permanent homes were found. I live in San Antonio Texas are there any facilities that need volunteers. I have three children of my own, but I love all babies and would love to host a baby until they find powder parents.
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Pam Hasegawa
3/21/2018 05:13:54 am
If you enter "volunteering to cuddle babies in Texas" into your browser search window, you will find several places you may contact to volunteer. You will find web sites and contact information to explore this further :-)
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Rebekah Epps
2/19/2016 12:12:46 am
I researched through a Facebook link stating that "volunteer cuddlers" were needed to care and nurture for infants until they have been adopted. I would love to volunteer and would like more info on how to do so.
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Pamela Hasegawa
3/21/2018 05:15:52 am
Please enter "volunteering to cuddle babies in ___________(your state)" in the search bar of your browser to learn about agencies with such programs.
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Laura Buenabad
2/22/2016 06:00:00 pm
I will like more information in regards volunteer to carry and hold babies. I live in Whittier, CA
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Pam Hasegawa
3/21/2018 05:16:53 am
Enter "volunteer to cuddle babies in CA" into your browser's search window for information on this subject.
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Deborah Chang
2/26/2016 06:18:54 pm
I was adopted by my stepfather when he married my mom. I would like to get my original birth certificate. My mom has since passed away, but I have contact with my birth father. Is there a process that would allow me to get the original with my birth father's consent. Your organization helped unite my mother with her first daughter who was given up for adoption and I thought you may be able to help me with this. I have all of the information, but I don't know how to go about doing this. Thank you Deborah Chang
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3/21/2018 05:22:00 am
It all depends on the state in which you were born, as laws differ from state to state. If you enter "adoptees' access to original birth certificates in ____ (state where you were born)" in your browser search bar you will find several avenues to obtain this information.
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8/3/2020 08:20:51 am
Dear Deborah, I wrote you in 2018 when (gulp) I first saw your message, and am wondering how you have done with your search.
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Adoptee
2/27/2016 10:16:28 pm
You have the wrong link to the ALMA website here. It's http://www.almasociety.org/.
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8/3/2020 07:16:22 am
Adding "/org." will get you to the ALMA web site as will http://www.a;masociety.org (without the " /.")
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8/3/2020 08:22:55 am
I just saw the typo in my answer above. The correct email address to reach ALMA is
Jorge Mancilla
5/20/2016 12:43:58 pm
Hello I seek biological family
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3/21/2018 09:32:55 am
Have you registered with ALMA (http://www.almasociety.org) and ISRR (http://www.ISRR.net)?
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Susan McNamara Allocco
7/1/2016 11:22:32 pm
I went to my first ALMA meeting in the early 70's in NYC. From that meeting, I met a wonderful man who helped adoptees and was very sympathetic to our cause. I hired him and my birth mother was married numerous times, so in the days before the Internet, it was a difficult task. About five years later he found my sister and "supposed" birth father. He married my mother not too long after I was born. My birth mother died the year I started my search, but I didn't find that out until 1994. I did a DNA test with my sister and we are definitely not my full sister. The only person who could tell me had been dead for almost 40 years. I have accepted I will never completely know the other half of my DNA and relatives I wish I knew. It is probably too late to know my birth father, but so was born in Brooklyn, NY in Febuary 1948 at Midwoof Hospital by Dr. Nicholas J. Rose. My birth mother's name Eve Synder. If any reading this and anyone or fact sounds familiar, please let me know. 🙏🏻
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3/20/2018 03:07:56 pm
Dear Susan, I hope you will go to the ALMA web site (www.almasociety.org) and update your registration form. If you joined way back when we may have met each other (mid-70s) you don't have to join again as once membership is confirmed, you never lose it. A support group meets monthly on the 2nd Sat of each month at 12:30-4:30 at the Morristown and Twp Public Library in Morristown, on South St. Please free to contact njcare.staff@gmail.com, and request information on various DNA companies that may give you a link to the other side of your original family :-) Pam
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Janet Hill
10/17/2016 08:22:40 am
I am curious if there is information concerning possible baby swapping at Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii island of Oahu. I was an adopted child. I have done a DNA test. My 2 matches are, both 1st cousins. I am a match to them.
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3/21/2018 12:10:46 pm
Dear Janet, Here is the latest update on adoptees' access to original birth certificates in Hawaii. Its quite a law! :-)
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8/3/2020 07:19:32 am
Dear Janet, Were you able to obtain a copy of your original birth certificate from Hawai'i?
Bob Braxton
5/17/2017 09:14:55 am
progressing reading "The Gilrs Who Went Away" and empathetic to what my birthfather may have been going through after relinquishing infant daughter circa 1940 February 14, NC, in the 1940 census (as "ward" no name).
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Angela Evelyn Hahn
7/28/2017 07:57:23 am
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Terri (Davey) Allen
3/19/2018 10:57:46 am
I had a daughter I gave up at birth, She was born 6/29/69.She was born at Queen of The Valley Hospital in West Covina Ca, Hospital Id # 63384 , mine # 63356. I am 70 now, and there has not been a day go by that I don't think about her. I have no idea how to find her
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3/21/2018 11:42:57 am
Dear Terri,
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Patsy Saba
3/20/2018 09:59:06 pm
Looking for natural mother
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3/21/2018 11:34:25 am
Dear Patsy,
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8/3/2020 07:43:29 am
Here are some suggestions for you as you seek to find your original mother.
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Amanda Butler
4/8/2018 12:01:34 am
I am 30 born 8/16/87 In Stuart Florida. I already tried ALMA but unfortunately I don't have the kind of money it apparently takes to even register with them. I am so so so sick and tired of looking for my bio family and everywhere I turn I get told if you have $___ we can search and find them. I AM A MOTHER OF 2 WITH 1 ON THE WAY. WE LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK AND DON'T HAVE ANY EXTRA MONEY let alone extra cash to basicly throw into the void and hope something comes back. I have a right to know where I came from. I have a right to know my family history...my family medical history...i can't even tell my children if we have a higher risk of cancer or and genetic issues. Nothing. Not knowing where you come from is painful and while I'm glad a lot of people can afford to find out, i know there are a lot more who can't and therefore just have to suffer or gtf over it. I don't care how I sound i don't care if I sound like the biggest bitch on earth. I just want closure and am finding out unless I manage to get rich...ill just die trying.
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Stacey
7/15/2018 11:15:54 pm
Amanda, how can someone get in touch with you?
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Krystle
9/16/2018 07:57:49 pm
My mother was adopted. I recently found an ild piece of paper in my grandmoms handwriting which said info on finding my mom's birth mother.She was born on September 16th 1972 at sacred heart hospital. It also said dr Delhi and alma. How can i find her biological mother without even knowing her name. Her birth certificate says my grandfather's last name (her adopted father)
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Ahna Blutreich
7/28/2019 01:05:22 pm
My mothers older brother was stolen and sold to another family in 1942. This happened at central maternity hospital in the Bronx that was owned by Dr Leff. Dr Leff was subsequently convicted of selling babies and falsifying birth records. The hospital burnt down and all the records are lost. My mother and her remaining siblings are desperate to find their stolen brother. My grandmother's name was Jennie Schwartz. Any leads or help would be greatly appreciated.
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Marie Anderson
8/5/2019 08:58:02 am
Marie Anderson, biological mom as listed on Birth Certificate Dewitt John Anderson either July 17th or July 19th, 1968 at Union Memorial Hospital, 33rd St and N Calvert st Baltimore MD
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Jacob crow
11/12/2019 10:16:50 pm
I’m looking for my biological father I was born March 11th 1998 at Miami dade hospital my biological father is Suzanne crowe I was adopted thru child net
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Diana G
11/18/2019 04:54:38 am
I am trying to find information about a NYC doctor who arranged my adoption. This was 70 years ago. I have his name, but never came up with anything about him or his practice. Any ideas?
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Stephen Landishman
1/25/2020 02:30:50 pm
Got original birth certificate and registered on ancestry.com. Just found out I have a younger sibling that was put up for adoption. Where can I go to find her information. My adopted parents were contacted after adopting me and was told I had a female sibling and would they be interested in adoption. They could not afford this. How can I find her. I know we share the same mother.
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Stacey
1/26/2020 05:08:48 am
Stephen, where were you born? Was your sister born in the same state? You can start by registering with the State's adoption reunion registry. Reach out to the adoption agency/attorney that handled your adoption place a letter (a waiver of anonymity) with all your contact information for her. Reguster with ISRR (Int'l Soundex Reunion Registry).
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Pamela Ross
8/3/2020 06:04:20 am
I need a phone number for ALMA? I tried to register and after filling out the form it wouldn't send it. I need help.
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8/3/2020 07:31:28 am
Hi Pam,
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Pamela Ross
8/3/2020 08:17:43 am
I did hire the attorney with a letter from my doctor stating that I have vital health history I need to send to my daughter. The attorney Ann Edens of Chester, NJ. at Eden's Law Firm wasn't able to locate the county courthouse which did the adoption when my daughter was about a year old. She wasn't adopted in Morris County, NJ. where she was born. The adoption agency, NJ. Children and Families were located in Morristown, NJ. at the time of the adoption. Ann's agency was able to eliminate 10 of the 21 counties in NJ. But it was very costly to continue with affidavit and orders. The agency was reluctant because they weren't sure we would be able to get an answer. There is the possibility she was adopted out of state. My feeling is that one of the counties along the coast where I was living at the time might be a possible place to search because my address at the time of the adoption was in Tuckerton, NJ. I have another reason that area is of interest to me as well. All the counties have different laws and requirements to petition the court. Three coastal counties that didn't respond to the attorney are Burlington, Monmouth and Atlantic. The attorney felt that I should contact the ACLU. I filed a complaint but I feel they are very busy right now. I don't know if I will get an answer. Because I have moved back to my home in VA. after 8 years in Fl. taking care of family I'm closer to NJ. I have lived here for about 30 years. I'd like to join the NJ. support group for birth parents.
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Pamela Ross
8/3/2020 08:47:36 am
answer by e-mail?
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8/5/2020 12:03:25 pm
I wanted to continue my subscription. It was cancelled by mistake.
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