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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:
Troy Dunn is a true phenomenon: From finding birth parents to organ donors, his brilliant investigative skills are a marvel to all who see him in action. His impressive track record for locating people means that he and his staff are routinely inundated with dozens of new cases to solve on a weekly basis.
But for one week each month, Troy devotes all of his staff and resources to one important case that they call the Angel Case. This Angel Case usually comes to Troy because there is an urgent need to find someone and because she has exhausted all other possible avenues. The Angel Case meeting begins with Troy’s staff presenting him with three to four potential cases and after a brief discussion, Troy decides which challenge he wants to take on. On his way out of the meeting, Troy assigns specific tasks to his staff members to streamline the search process.
Join Troy and his team on these emotional journeys, where everything from creative tactics to sheer luck provide breakthroughs in his quest to reunite loved ones and reconnect lives
Like Troy The Locator, OmniTrace -The Adoption Search Experts - reunites birth parents and adoptees all over the world. We estimate that Dave Betz and his search team currently conduct more adoption related searches than any other company in the world. We believe our success rate is unsurpassed by any other search firm!!!
If you do not have the opportunity to reunite with your birth family via WE tv’s Troy The Locator, please contact us and one of our experienced and friendly search consultants - Sheila, Barbara, Sharla, Lisa, Michelle or Diane will provide you a FREE search consultation and answer any questions you have about your search. You can call toll free at 1-888-965-6696 or email us at: info@omnitrace.com.
We hope you enjoy this season’s episodes of We tv’s Troy The Locator.
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personally, I as an adoptee amd really sick and tired of all the consideration being given to the birth mother or parents and none to the adopted children.
I mean really – what RIGHT does someone have to promise anybody that they won’t tell their child or children who they really are or where they came from?
Okay – until the adopted child is a legal adult, go ahead and keep it hush hush but if they are of age and want to know their name? They have a RIGHT to know their name. Former slaves in America have apparently got MORE RIGHTS to their own information than adoptees. In particular, the Catholic Church is one of the WORST when it comes to this stuff. They apparently believe they’re above the law – that is, the freedom of information act. Wasn’t that law passed already – possibly a few years ago? So then why can’t I access my name? I am beyond frustrated at this point. At sixty five years of age and still looking – I am BITTER.
Your right as the state of Ark is really bad too. I know my birth name ( William Earl Garst) but, can’t find out about my father who fought for 2 yrs to keep me. I also have 2 brothers & 2 sisters and don’t know anything about them. I want to know if I was the only one given away and if the others even know that I exist? Do they tink I’m dead or something? I’m alive and have 4 kids and have been married for 29 yrs. I’d like to meet my birth father and siblings.
Hi all!
I am searching for my son, born Nathan Kyle Coyle…Jan.4th 1988. I hope him to be in great health,a good stable upbringing,and all the love I could have given and more. I would also like to thank the adoptive family for having my son.
I too was adopted and am searching also for my father and sibs..Birth Father-Marshall Elliot Swinford, I believe to be in Indiana. If you do not wish to see me,maybe I may have the chance to meet my sibs at the very least? I would appreciate this soo much and understand if you do not wish to contact me.
To all, good luck in your searches and good day!!
Hi my name is Arni elliott swinford i live in iceland and my father marshall elliott swinford was living there with my mom and me he left in 1980 and i have been looking for him since then..
It’s nice to read that a mother is searching for her child. I sure wish my birth family would do some searching. I have many illnesses and would like some information and not only that I would like to meet them. I use feel bitter about it, but not at all anymore. I have a wonderful family and was raised in a good home. I have one daughter of my own and three grand children that I adore. I would like for my birth family to see what they are missing. Good luck on your journey to finding your son.
Oh wow – well thank goodness at least you have your name. My name (birth name supposedly) was/is Sherry Anne Blythe. My birth mother MADE IT UP. I am apparently named after her favorite drink and Anne Blythe the movie actress. I was told by the Catholic Charities that my birth mother used FIVE DIFFERENT NAMES and meanwhile they won’t or can’t tell me any of them. They told me everything else though – all the dirty details including that I was apparently in a penile institution with my mother soon after I was born. I was adopted at fifteen months of age – rather old by comparison and I guess I’m lucky I got adopted at all – even though it wasn’t the greatest situation, it could have been MUCH worse. Anyway – I advise you to never give up. More often than not, little consideration is given the fathers. That needs to change quickly.
Okay – they don’t have to give birth but once there is a baby born? They have every right to be a part of the child’s life. God bless you and good luck.
I am looking for a son, Born March 30, 1983, at Good Shepard Hospital,Gregg Co. in Longview, TX. I was told his first and middle names were, Nicholas Russell. This was a private adoption. I was in college at the time and took a maternity leave for his birth. Dr. Lucas was the attending OBGYN. in place of Dr. Bianca. And The attorney used was a Lynn Patton of Longview as well. I would appreciate any help or guidance. Thank you and God Bless!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Omni TRACE IS
AWESOME! I found my son with the help from a lady named Jan she read my posting and helped me until I finally located my son. To make a long story short, we met a week later and have kept in contact ever since. My heart if full…
Thank you Omni Trace and Thank you Jan
May God Bless You in Many Ways
Linda ~*
i am looking for my grangpa. All I know is his name is Jerry and he either was a pharmacist or worked for one in jackson mississippi. My grandmother met him at a bar in jackson and he rapped her and she became pregnant with my mother so she gave my mom up for adoption and my moms great uncle adopted her.. I would really like to meet him and the rest of my family. If anyone can help me or has any advise please let me know!!! thank you!!!
Have you gone to the town where the conception took place and done some leg work… more then likely he might have owned the pharmacy.. check out the Cole directories and then make it to the drugstores and check them out..
Hope to meet you soon
Carol W
i have been looking for my birth mother since 1981. my search has been very costly in the past, and when the cost of your search is affecting you ability to pay your bills it is time to let it go, so i did. i would really like to contact my birth mother, just to let her know that i am very thankful for putting me up for adoption, as i had very good parents. i would also like to know if i have any siblings? i live both in southern ontario, and western new york, and i have good health and i am willing to travel, if a reunion is possible. i would love to meet her, and tell her about my family, and her grand kids, great grand kids, and her great great grand child…..hopefully you can make this happen for me…..garry
I completely agree with the first post about the Catholic Charities, I am totally disgusted with the way they operate. I as an adult have every right to that information as an adoptee. I was born in Naperville Il, on 8/16/72, if that wasn’t changed also!! I was a few weeks old at adoption and I’ve been searching for years and I’m so frustrated at something I have a given right to know!!
I am looking for my biological parents. I was put up for adoption in 1971 in Moundsville, WV, I was one or two weeks old. My adopted parents mean the world to me but there still remains a hole in my soul and the only thing that will fill it is knowing who I am. My adopted father, Jack, was the head football coach at John Marshall High School during that time. We moved to Princeton, WV a few months after I was born.
12-19-48 Iowa. Looking for brother given up for adoption. I am the oldest. He was 6-8 months old when placed with the welfare dept. I did get non-identifing info after I wrote the state of Iowa and requested it. His adoption was finalized in Cedar County, Iowa in 1952. So I am assuming his first name stayed the same Allen, or Alan. Seems really sad the he is 61 years old and I am 62 and still cannot get info.
troy, I think you are the best. I just think people need to hear that. keep going gate keeper!!!!
I was born in Tarzana medical center in Tarzana California on february 21, 1983 im looking for my birth parents. please help.
Brian McKay Gaddis is the name given to my husband at birth he was born in Gulfport Mississippi on May 4, 1964 and was adopted by Ralphine and Joseph Lewis who lived in New Orleans, LA. My husband found out he was adopted when his adopted mother passed away he never know he was adopted after her death he approached his adpotive father who was very evasive, his family has always been very distant now we realize why everyone in his family are so distant they were all so afraid to tell him he was adopted. I am really in search for his biological mother and father. He disparately would love to meet them and know his roots. I can tell it is a dream for him to truly know who they are. I have received the final decree of adoption however it did not give the name of his parents. I pray that someone can help. I know they would be proud of there son and all he has accomplished. I just feel that this is a missing puzzle for my husband that he has to complete. PLEASE HELP!!! A new year is coming and we REALLY want to know.
I feel so bad for all of these people given up for adoption and then denied valuable info. I know from experience what its like to want to know. I wasn’t adopted but I wasn’t raised by my mother and ibesides me looking for my siblings, I’ve wanted contact with my mothers side ofr the family but some don’t really care. I have an aunt who lives and has lived my ENTIRE LIFE in the same county, matter of fact, less than 15 miles away and has known this and never responded to my repeated efforts in contact. I did have contact as a young child and remember a lot about her but some ppl just don’t care. ANYWAYS, I am looking for my sister who was put up for adoption. She was born in the spring of 1991(I think) and her birth name was stacey ann olli. Birth mother tammy jo olli( maiden name miller) the legal father who had to sign paperwork and was on birth certificate was daniel lawrence olli. She was born in michigan. She may know or may be record that she was the third child born to tammy, me being the first. I don’t know much. May have been adopted through adoption associates or adoptive associates?? I want to meet her so bad. A part of me has been missing. I also am looking for my brother and younger sister but I believe that my bro was adopted by a family member of his biological fathers and I’ve benn told that he won’t know he was adopted and also the two younger ones wouldn’t even be 18. I wasn’t raised by our mother but I was never legally adopted by anyone. I wish I could find stacy so bad. Heradoptive parents may have kept her first and middle birth name. I am trying to find her exact bday because I know my bilogical father(her lagal father befroe adoption) has paperwork because he had to sign his rights away since he was still married to her mother. Does anyone know how I can get more info? I have had trouble since I am only her halfsister. I feel like I have every right to know who and where she is. If I had been older than 5 I would have taken her myself and all of my siblings. My Ýoungest would be 8 and has down syndrome. I wish those records were open because I have a feeling that she never found a stable permanent home because of her illness, I would take her right nowin the blink of an eye. Ok. Sorry for all the babble, hope you all read this post as I have read yours, I am just upset and I get all worked up everytime I come on these sights. P.s. I am on my phone, not a computer but can get to a computer if I really need to. ANY and all advice or feedback will be appreciated from THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. Good luck to all, please know that someone, somewhere loves you and thinks of you everyday!!!Love always and forever,Tracy ann olli
I am looking for my birth mother to thank her for one thing and another to find out any info on the medical history that may be of some help to me. I was born on Aug. 14, 1978 at Flow Memorial Hosp. in Denton, Texas. My birth mother’s name was Nancy Elkins and she was 22yrs old at the time of my birth. I would also love to find my brotherthat is 2 yrs older than me. Please if any info. let me know!!!
So this is the hardest case i have ever had, not that i am a pro or anything, Not that i get paid to be a crazy person sitting at my computer searching countless leads only to realize you have none. Hey i found and made two reunions, what the heck. Why is it harder to trace when they are adopted at two and a half? Could it be I don’t have real information? This would be a good case for a show, actually there should be a show for us crazy people who search for free for people we hardly know. Does anyone know of any child born 4-23-1959.
State could be WA. but maybe not? I have been to every library in my area done all the inside trade secrets… I tell you I feel it, I know they are looking for her, this person i hardly know, but do know from her story. This person who deserves to know her roots. I read countless stories of searchers who just want one connection to their roots. I don’t even know what drives me to search and help people along the way, I think I feel all the ancestors in heaven pushing me to not give up…. and I search like a crazy person when
I could be protesting the court houses that hide all the information i need.
I wish I didn’t have complete and utter disdain for the Catholic Charities but at this point, I do. They believe they are above the law. There is a freedom of information act but apparently, they don’t have to respect it. If there is a God I hope HE PUNISHES THEM for withholding my name from me.
I was adopted in July of 1952, Oakland CA. at the age of 2-months old. I was born in “Oakland Hospital”, (now a Kaiser Hosp.), I was the 15th child adopted from the newly opened “Children’s Welfare Department” and have spent some $$$ on gathering information as to who my actual parents are. All I have received is this information; Father was German, and Mother was Irish, and that my birth name given to me was David Lee. I have yet to find my last name, because I was adopted in the 1950’s all files were sealed and any/all information pertainning to my birth parents idenity is kept a secret. I had joined “Adoptee/Adoptor Groups”, put my information on the internet as a part of this group and have never heard any information as to who I really am. I don’t understand why this information is so damn hard to find, I have five children, nine grandchildren, and would like so very much to be able to tell them where they come from. Actual bloodlines that could be connected, health matters, if I have any siblings I could one day meet just to feel connected. I have gone through marraige’s because I have never felt the family ties. Why does this valuble information need to be withheld from children? I have a sister and she was adopted also, and there has never been a connection between the two of us. She was adopted from different parents, not the same as mine and it was like growing up with a pretend family. All of our cousins looked different from us, and we were both teased and treated differently from the rest of the children. I have not even spoken of the hatred kept deep inside of me for many years until now. I feel I have the right to know who my real family is!!!