An Important Appointment

Tomorrow I have a fairly big appointment coming up with Norfolk County Council Adoption Services to see if they can find me some answers.  Late last year I exhausted every possible lead I had been given.  My last chance was The Children Society because I was always told that my adoption was arranged through the Church of England and knowing that I was feeling positive.  But a few days after my initial enquiry it came back that they had no record of me or my birth mother.  The post adoption team were very helpful and hence I now have an appointment with the council.

It is not that I don't have any information about my birth mother I do, in fact I have a lot.  Even knowing she got married in 1968 and later divorced.  I have a lot of stories told to me over the years by my adoptive mother and naturally because she had my birth mothers name and address I believed everything she told me.

Partly out of respect to my mother when she was alive I only searched in a half-hearted way.  In 1996 I had been to the council to get a CA5, which entitles you to get your original birth certificate.  My birth certificate gave no new surprises and I was a bit deflated for a while.  At that time the council only found one piece of paper on file for me, even they were surprised.

Now my mother is no longer with me I need to find answers.  Just to know which adoption agency or society I was adopted through would be enough.  But even that is difficult, surely a child cannot be born and adopted and have no paperwork.  All I do know is that my birth mother registered me and a report was done and I have the court order and that's it.  It is now twenty years and I am hoping that files that may have got mislaid back then can now be found.  I am trying to be positive.  I write an update in the next few days.  Please keep your fingers crossed for me.