OmniTrace On FaceBook and Twitter

OmniTrace On FaceBook and Twitter

Hi all.  We just want you to know that you can learn more about our OmniTrace staff and services by visiting our Twitter and Facebook pages:

• OmniTrace On FaceBook
• OmniTrace On Twitter – Dana Betz
• OmniTrace On Twitter – Dave Betz

And if you happen to be visiting Florida (or are a Florida resident), please come and meet with us at our offices.  Take a tour of our facility and talk with our OmniTrace Search Consultants and Private Investigators.  Call us at 1-888-965-6696 or email us for directions.   

OmniTrace Launches Relief Effort For Haiti

Haiti’s capital awoke to increasing desperation Thursday morning, a day and a half after a devastating earthquake, with covered bodies piling up along streets and modern aspects of life, such as electricity, mostly missing.

The streets of Port-au-Prince resembled grainy black-and-white newsreels from World War II that showed the rubble of bombed-out houses in Berlin and London. The devastation was wide and often horrific.

OmniTrace will be donating a portion of our fee for each new search to the victims, as well as launching a food drive.  We’re still formulating our charitable program and will provide additional details shortly.

In the meantime, please say a prayer for the victims and their families who have been affected by this terrible event.

OmniTrace Staff

Total Tranquility – The Secrets of Yoga and Meditation

Searching for your birth family can be very stressful.  Here’s a note from our good friend,  Anthony D’Agostino, CEO and Founder of Yoga Awakening:

“Many people ask me, ‘What will I get out of yoga and meditation?’

My response is, ‘Anything and everything you need or desire’……..

Searching for your birth family can be very stressful. Your mind dwells on the past, and the circumstances surrounding the adoption may overwhelm you. Your thoughts are Read More

Colorado Court Pulls Curtain Back On Adoption Records

When Patricia Dukeman started trying to find her biological parents, Ronald Reagan lived in the White House, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” was record of the year, and the Supreme Court decided it was OK for us to use those new VCR things to tape TV shows.

In the 25 years since, Dukeman, 48, has spent a lot of money and learned a Read More

Colorado Adoption Law – Pertaining To Open Records

Here is new information about Colorado Adoption Law pertaining to open records from Rich Uhrlaub, director of Adoptees In Search:

“The Colorado State Board of Human Services has approved a new rule in compliance with the recent Court of Appeals ruling which opened records to those whose adoptions were finalized between Julyl 1, 1951 and July 1, 1967. This means that, along with original birth certificates which are available through the Colorado Department of Publice Health and Environment (CDPHE), adoption records as defined by statute which are under the Read More

Assembly Considers Unsealing New Jersey Birth Records

New Jersey Birth Records

Currently, original New Jersey birth records are sealed when an adoption occurs.  Adoptees searching for their birth family cannot access their original names or their birth parent’s names.  Birth parents are also denied access to birth records. 

There is legislation in the works that will give adult adoptees and adoptive parents access to original birth records. 

Birth parents will have a 12 month period to file a request to redact their names and addresses from the birth records and then have 60 days to fill out a form with medical, ancestral and social history. 

Learn more details about legislation to open New Jersey birth records  here:  http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/

(Type s611 in the Bill Number field, click the search button and then click on the PDF Format or HTML Format Link)

Eight states currently have open Read More

Dave Betz Talks About OmniTrace

Here’s Dave Betz providing information on what’s happening at OmniTrace -- The People Search Experts.

Video By Fredo

Please leave a comment if you have any questions for Dave.  You can also email Dave at info@omnitrace.com or call him toll free at 1-888-965-6696.

A Poignant Testimonial To OmniTrace

OmniTrace Private Investigator Reveals Search Methods

Here is a post about  OmniTrace search methods from our youngest and perhaps most enthusiastic OmniTrace Private Investigator:

By Rachel Weiss

Hello my name is Rachel Weiss, and I am originally from Boston, Massachusetts, the home of the Boston Red Sox.  I come from a family that is made up of a set of fraternal twins, whom are my brother and sister, my mother and father, and me.  I recently graduated last year from college with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Psychology.  In my spare time I love to enjoy the outdoors, whether it is going to the beach, or just being outside walking around somewhere.  A big part of me is definitely still a homebody, and I love spending time with my family as much as I can.  

One of the things I love about my job is using search methods to reunite people with Read More

Man Seeks Son Given For Adoption But Records Lead To Wrong Person

Mistaken Identity Shatters Adoption Reunion

OmniTrace is involved with many wonderful reunions between adopted children and their biological parents.  Most go very well and are wonderful experiences for the reunited family members.

The following reunion (not one of our cases) has a truly startling twist.  Here’s a story shown on ABC News about an adoption that took place in New Jersey.  It involves a mix-up between two people who waited their entire lives to meet, and it is absolutely heartbreaking:

ABC News Story

It’s hard to know exactly where things went wrong.  It could have been at the hospital.  In that case, the hospital records were likely destroyed years ago and the mystery will never be solved.  Or, the mistake may have taken place at the New Jersey adoption agency– the son was one of six other children adopted around the same time and a mix-up might have occurred.

Unfortunately, those agency adoption records that might help to reveal the Read More