I was born in Ireland in 1960 and adopted by a couple in the U.S. when I was 18 months old.
I grew up knowing I was adopted from Ireland but I still wasn't prepared for how I would feel when I finally saw my birth certificate in my early thirties.
A lot of people will now have the right to information that they never had before, although it will be up to them whether they take it to the next level and make contact with their birth parents. That's the decision I made in the '80s, when I tracked down my own birth mother.I was born in Bessborough mother and baby home in Ireland, to an unmarried 26-year-old woman, and adopted by a couple in Philadelphia when I was 18 months old.
In many ways, I had an idyllic childhood in Philadelphia. My father owned a plumbing and heating business, so we were comfortably well-off. My brother—who was separately adopted from Bessborough—and I were sent to good schools and we were encouraged to take up sports and music lessons. I also felt that I didn't fit in, as I didn't look like anyone in my family. My adoptive mother had very fair skin and red hair. My brother was blond-haired and blue-eyed, so people said he looked like my father. But I had dark features. It felt unsettling to me—like I was a square peg not quite fitting in this round hole.I didn't know anything about my birth mother growing up, because my adoptive parents didn't know anything about her either.
I did a Freedom of Information request in the States to get my full immigration file and birth certificate. Then I started a website. A woman based in London, Judy, reached out. She had a robust interest in genealogy and she helped me search for my mother for a number of years, first searching Irish records before we switched our focus to the U.K.
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