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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]
Adoptee/Fosteree Traced Family
- Adie, Kate
- Anstis, Toby
- Aucoin, Kevyn
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Bay, Michael
- Black, Pauline
- Callahan, John
- Clausen, Curt
- Cullen, Eric Robertson
- Emerick, Louis
- Fisher, Antwone
- Fisher, Florence
- more
Always in Contact or Knew Identities
- Adler-Collins, Je Kan
- Agbabi, Patience
- Apess, William
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Bálint, Lea
- Beley, Ennis
- Bijani, Laden & Laleh
- Braimoh, Dilly
- Brodkey, Harold
- Brown, Mick
- Bustamante, William Alexander
- Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
- more
Birth Family Traced Adoptee/Fosteree
- Beachley, Layne
- Bear Woman
- Bijani, Laden & Laleh
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan
- Middlemiss, Philip
- Perrott, Caroline
- Roach, Archie
- Saffian, Sarah Ruth
- Schreiber, Lorna
- Seal
- Slocum, Frances
- more
Contact Unsatisfactory
- Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Bartholomew, Freddie
- Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5)
- Finn Mac Cumhal
- Graham, Eddie
- Jakszyk, Jakko M.
- Middlemiss, Philip
- Thorne, Grahame
- Whitbread, Fatima
- Williams, Jett
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