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Bird, A. John, Sacagawea, Omahuru, Ngatau, Seal, McDaid, Desmond, Goldie, Fish, Laura, Fashanu, Justinius Sonny, Fashanu, John, Stanhope, Albert, Adoptee/Fosteree Traced Family, Birth Family Traced Adoptee/Fosteree, Always in Contact or Knew Identities, Contact Unsatisfactory, Media Traced Adoptee/Fosteree or Birth Family without Permission,

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Bird, A. John

Bird is the founder of The Big Issue, the magazine produced and sold by the homeless in Britain. He was one of six sons of a poor London family. After his parents were evicted from their... [more]

Sacagawea

Sacagawea was probably born a Shoshone. When she was about 10-12 years old and probably living in Idaho, she was one of a group of boys and girls, including her brother and sister, who were... [more]

Omahuru, Ngatau

The story of Ngatau Omahuru is one of a number of similar ones from colonial New Zealand involving the kidnapping of white children by Maori and vice versa. An example in this directory of ... [more]

Seal

Seal was born to a Nigerian mother and Brazilian father in Kilburn, London. Both his parents were students with part-time jobs, and he was privately fostered with a white family with four b... [more]

McDaid, Desmond

McDaid was the son of a single mother in Ireland, who had to leave him in an orphanage when he was two. He stayed in Irish orphanages until he was nine, when he was shipped, without his mot... [more]

Goldie

Goldie (there are at least two versions of how he got his name: one is that it dates from his time as a Rastafarian, because of his hair color; the other, also that it derives from Goldiloc... [more]

Fish, Laura

Fish is a transracial adoptee, of Guyanese and Jamaican parentage. She has been in contact with her birth parents since 1989. Her first novel is Flight of the Black Swans (1995). In 2001... [more]

Fashanu, Justinius Sonny

Justin and John Fashanu were birth brothers. Their Guyanese-British mother and Nigerian father separated when they were toddlers, with their father returning to Nigeria. Unable to cope on... [more]

Fashanu, John

Justin and John Fashanu were birth brothers. Their Guyanese-British mother and Nigerian father separated when they were toddlers, with their father returning to Nigeria. Unable to cope on... [more]

Stanhope, Albert

Stanhope was a Child Migrant to Australia. Born to an unmarried woman in England, he was placed in an orphanage because she was unable to work and care for him, having no family back-up. ... [more]