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What Is A Reunion Registry?

What Is A Reunion Registry?

We frequently speak with adoptees and birth parents about adoption reunion registries and are surprised to learn how few know what they are.   Here’s some important information about these registries:  

When searching for your birth family your first step should be reunion / adoption registries.  An adoption reunion registry can be the least expensive and quickest way to reunite you with your Read More

Yoga Awakening – Release The Powers Within

Searching for your birth family can be stressful.  Your mind dwells on the past, and circumstances surrounding  the adoption may overwhelm you.  Your thoughts are pulled towards the future in anticipation of finding your loved ones.  Will you ever reunite? 

Why not apply Yoga principles to your life to be  happier and stress-free?  Our good friend at  Yoga Awakening can help:

“Yoga is a discipline that breeds success and will release the inner powers of both your mind and body and lead to total Read More

Troy The Locator On WE tv

Troy The Locator

Troy The Locator has been reuniting birth family for over twenty years and is one of the most viewed shows on WE tv.  Millions of people have witnessed Troy The Locator conduct reunions between birth parents and adoptees.

A new episode of  Troy The Locator airs Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009,  9:00 PM Eastern Time and 8:00 PM Central. 

Here is what WE tv has to say about Troy The Locator: Read More

Disappearing In The Digital Age Is Hard To Do

‘Missing’ Wired Magazine Writer Tracked Down

Source:  ABC News
By By KI MAE HEUSSNER

You can run and you can hide.

But, especially in the digital age, do you have what it takes to disappear?

In a contest hatched by Wired magazine, writer Evan Ratliff tried to see if he could fly below the radar for 30 days with a bounty over his head.

Starting Aug. 15, he traveled the continental United States without revealing his location to a soul on the planet. Wired offered $5,000 to Read More

Avoid Criminal Identify Theft

Avoid Criminal Identity Theft

Our expertise is finding people, their assets, and their background information.   We know where to look, who to call, and what to say to find anyone’s personal information.  Who better to help you avoid criminal identity theft?  That’s the reason for this post. 

Although consumers have become more well informed at avoiding criminal identity theft, identity theft crooks are constantly updating their methods to steal credit cards, open bank accounts, obtain loans, etc. 

Here are ways you can avoid criminal identity theft: Read More

Using Social Media To Conduct Your Adoption Search

Adoption Search

Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google can be very helpful when conducting an adoption search.  Not only can you search these sites for listings your birth family members might have posted, you can also post your adoption search details on many of these sites.   

Here is a New York Daily News video and article on how Jonathan Frank conducted an adoption search and found his birth brother and birth sister with the help of Facebook.

Here is a CNN News Story on how a Pennsylvania woman used Google to resolve her adoption search and find her birth family. 

When OmniTrace begins a new adoption search, we utilize state-of-the-art databases, a worldwide network of researchers and private investigation methods to find birth family.  We also take advantage of the many free social media websites so we have every chance to successfully complete your adoption search.

If you are conducting an adoption search on your own, please be sure to visit the Read More

Find Missing Persons – Call A Skip Tracer

Skip Tracer 101

Skip tracers are professional searchers who specialize in locating people such as debtors and deadbeats (people who owe money).  Skip tracers often work for companies that are owed a lot of debt such as banks, credit card companies and utility companies.  Skip trace departments within these companies can be a great source to find someone you suspect owes money. 

Skip Tracers are constantly tracking down and developing current address and current employment information on debtors and deadbeats.  Skip tracers typically rely on using the phone and employing various pretexts (phone tricks) to get debtors and deadbeats to reveal their locations.  Sometimes this can be more effective than database or Internet Searching.

If you suspect the person you are searching for owes money to a specific company or companies, contact their skip trace departments and see if you can enlist their help.  (If you are searching for your deadbeat husband or dead beat wife, you may have possession of Read More

OmniTrace Assists Producers Of MTV’s True Life

OmniTrace is assisting the producers of MTV’s True Life:  I’m Looking For My Child. 

Here’s what MTV says about their documentary series:

“MTV’s Emmy-nominated documentary series True Life, explores remarkable real-life stories of young people and the extraordinary subcultures they inhabit.  Crosstown Media, a production company that produces many of the True Life episodes – is currently accepting submissions for their latest episode – I’m Looking For My Child.

Having lost contact with a loved one is a difficult situation for anybody – and when that loved one is their own child, that feeling of loss and desire to connect (or reconnect) must be significantly greater.  True Life wants to explore what it’s like for a young adult who desperately wants to unite (or reunite) with their long-lost child…and we want to document the journey of that person trying to make their dream come true.

True Life takes an intimate and unobtrusive approach to their storytelling.  The entire production crew consists of just one person – a producer with a camera…that’s it.  We capture the story over the course of approximately two months.  Because True Life is a Read More

Requesting Adoption Records

Adoption Records

Requesting your adoption records in a closed adoption records state, while sometimes daunting, is definitely worth doing.  You may obtain:

• Non-Identifying Information (Redacted Adoption Records)
• Information On The State Reunion Registry
• Intermediary Program Details

Obtaining your non-identifying information (redacted adoption records) can be very helpful in finding your birth parents.  We have already written several posts covering non-id, but because this subject is so important, let’s review again (we’ll cover reunion registries and intermediary programs in our next post). 

Non-identifying information / redacted adoption records typically contains Read More

Dave Betz– President of OmniTrace–Is Now On Twitter!

Dave’s twitter location is at:  twitter.com/DaveBetz. 

There you can follow Dave–The People Search Expert– in real time as he reunites birth families, finds missing persons, traces dead beat dads, tracks down witnesses for important legal cases, locates missing clinical trial patients, tracks down heirs to large estates and complains about his broken Sony Bravia TV set.  (The list goes on and on   ). 

Perhaps more important to you, Dave will be tweeting about how you can win a FREE Birth Parent Search valued at $1295.00!

And of course, you can write Dave on Twitter about your search.  He’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Twitter is a social networking platform that allows people to connect with friends, family and professional services like OmniTrace.  Sign up for free and start following Dave today.