Introducing Dianne Vassallo – Adoption Search Consultant

We just wrote a post about the various departments we have at OmniTrace and introduced the first of several members of our staff.  You can read that post here or just look below.

Today we would like to introduce Dianne Vassallo, another member of our Search Consultant Department.  We asked her to write a little bit about herself:

“My name is Dianne Vassallo and I have been a search consultant with Omnitrace for almost 4 years.  I am a specialist in reuniting Read More

Introducing Sharla Kotler – Adoption Search Consultant

We thought that our visitors might be interested in learning about our OmniTrace staff.  In addition to our management, we have three main departments at OmniTrace:

1. Our Search Consultant Department 
2. Our Private Investigative / Research Department
3. Our Client Relations Department

We have six search consultants.  Our friendly and caring consultants interview persons who require a search and (1) obtain any available information on the subject of the search; (2) determine whether the search is viable; (3) provide details about our services; (4) answer all questions and discuss the emotional impact of searching. 

Sharla Kotler is an adoption search consultant and has Read More

Three Sons Located

We just received this post from one our our OmniTrace visitors (Hi Katina) and thought we would display it prominently.

“Hello, I wanted to thank the search advisor website for helping me to post about locating my three son’s, Jason, Joseph and Patrick. This note is to let everyone know that through this website, my son Joseph found where I was located, he then gave his older brother Jason a tip to go online.  Both were separated at the age of only 12, and then sent to a variety of “not so good” foster homes. I have also learned that when a child has Read More

No Find No Fee Search (caution-not as good as it sounds)

No Find No Fee Search

There are a number of posts and articles on the Internet advocating no find no fee birth family search services.  The sources of these posts and articles may have good intentions but apparently do not understand what is involved with adoption related searching.

OmniTrace estimates we have successfully located and reunited more birth parents and adoptees than all no find no fee search services combined!  Our staff of private investigators and genealogists have learned nearly every legal nuance and trick of the trade available to find birth parents and adoptees, and Read More

City Directories – A Good Source To Find Birth Parents

Find Birth Parents

City Directories can be and extremely effective resource when trying to find birth parents. 

City Directories have been published for well over a 100 years in most major cities throughout the United States.  City directories have also been published in smaller towns throughout the country.  Although a city directory looks similar to a telephone directory, it contains much more genealogical information to help find birth parents:

• Addresses and names of persons / birth parents within a household
• Employment information on persons / birth parents within a household
• Property ownership information
• Marital status

City Directories also have a Read More