How important is it to you to find your biological parents?

[wolfsingleton]

My wife just found her family after 24 years even though she had been told they died. She never felt comfortable or accepted anywhere because she felt like she didn't know who she was. We found her biological parents, sister, brothers, nieces and nephews... even her grandmother! This was last week on Mother's Day and already she is non-stop on the phone because they all keep calling to talk to her. She finally is happy and feeling accepted for the first time at 30 years old. Yeah, I think finding your parents might be slightly important.

If you know your birthdate for sure and have a general region of where you were born, you can search old newspaper archives for that area's newspapers in the births section for the few weeks following your birthdate. Take that list of birth names (especially the parent names) and search with those. Start with phone listings in the area under those names and just call and ask if they are the parents of said child and state your goal of finding your birth parents. Cross off any names where the child stayed with them or info didn't match, etc. If you do not find success that way, move to searching the remaining names on social networks like myspace, facebook, etc. Whether you find your parents by now or not, your list of possibilities will be vastly narrowed down and will make any needed further searching much easier and more focused. I would advise that you write a small "speech" to follow when making calls/inquiries as it is quite easy to become emotional and draw a blank while talking! Good luck my friend.