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A Few of Our Members Currently Searching Within South Dakota Who Chose To Be Featured
421. Nunasgoyi : I’m trying to find my birth grandfather. I know my birth grandmother has passed. My father tells me nothing about his birth parents. I have virtually no information.
424. BeachcomberArts : Possibly adopted as a newborn or a toddler up to about age five when she appeared on the 1940 census for Pennington County‚ SD. Faye Whitney is name shown - head of family is Earl Whitney altho Faye’s birth child shows no Whitney dna in results. Earl adopted numerous children both in SD and in Pueblo‚ Colorado.
425. MitsyMarie : My name is Denise Pearson and I gave birth to a daughter on Sept. 2‚ 1974 in Oakes‚ North Dakota. Lutheran Social Services out of Aberdeen SD was in charge of the adoption process. I have recently had a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer and am currently starting chemo again. I have lived in SD all my life and currently live in Chamberlain with my husband and have 2 daughters and 2 bonus daughters. I am the baby of our family with on older brother and sister‚ who both have been adopted‚ and another brother. We lost our Mother to heart failure in Aug. 2002.
I believe biological father‚ Daniel Mulvenna‚ continues to live in Aberdeen and has 304 children. A girl‚ a boy and a set of twins.
426. PLW1976 : My mother gave birth to a
son in Louisiana. She has never met him since that day. I don’t even know his birthday. I think it was a babtist adoption agency but not sure. She stayed in a babtist hospital for unwed mothers. She was 16. She stayed at sellers home for unwed. His name was Charles Adams and his birthday is Sept 25 1964
427. Topdogpf : My understanding he was adopted around his birthday - 19 Jul 1954 to Nathan & Betty Slife of Iowa. We believe he was from an Indiana Reservation.
The name above is his adopted name.
My stepdaughter and great kids are working on their ancestors.
Thanks for support!
429. Njdecker : I am not going to live long‚ stage 4 metastatic breast cancer‚ and it is my wish to meet the son I gave up for adoption so very long ago in Sioux Falls‚ SD‚ at Avera Hospital... Catholic Family Services was in charge of the placement back in 1989.
430. PollyRhoades : I gave birth to a baby girl that her birth father Mike Kelley and I named Nicole May Rhoades‚ on May 28th‚ 1983 at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls‚ SD.We placed her for adoption through Bethany Lutheran Social services our case worker was Ruby Dahl. We were able to choose a family through a profile on paper. I think that they were realtors in profession‚ but it was and always has been a blur.
431. Nanania : My husband is searching for his son who he did not know about until 48 years after his birth. He was told he was born in March of 1973. He doesn’t know the location of his birth. The birth mother had lived in Iowa and Missouri prior to the pregnancy and the father from Iowa.
433. Joanjanet : He was born in Watertown‚ SD and adopted through Lutheran social services.
His birth Mother is 92 years old and has finally asked US to help her find her son.
434. Anamariavoica1 : Ana Maria Giurgiuveanu was my sisters name . I was born in 1993 my name is also Ana Maria in was adopted in Bucharest at 7 months ‚ she was in orphanage with our brother Catalin Giuegiuveanu in Slobozia . They were from Dridu ‚ Ialomita in Romania we are 12 siblings in total . I found and reunited with 7 of them .
I was matched with my birth mother just minutes after setting up my profile. It turns out that she had been searching for me for years. It's been a joy to connect with her and the rest of my biological family.
Sarah
Buffalo, New York
I found my children after 30 years, not long after I joined! I'm glad to say it's been a happy ending to my search
Cheryl
San Diego, California
54 years it took us until we found each other. We did a DNA test to confirm! Perfect match. We spent two weeks together and have a blessed, wonderful relationship! We even look alike in so many ways. She is more than I was expecting! Thank you for your website, Adopted.com!
Rosezetta
Wadesboro, North Carolina
I was looking for the mother of my daughter in law, and found both her mother and also grandmother in only 3 days. They are planning a reunion soon. Thank you soooooo much!
Amy
Tracy, California
I found all 3 of my siblings and met them in a week. My life has changed forever! One lives in Tracy and the other two are in North Dakota.
Hollie
Northampton, Massachusetts
Took me about 2 hrs to find a match. I contacted him and he is my brother! Thank you so much!
KIM
MODESTO, California
Within 24 hours my siblings and I were on the phone with our long lost sister. Without Adopted.com it would have never happened. We are sincerely grateful as we are now all a part of each other's lives!
Kara
Springfield, Missouri
I filled out my profile and had a match to my birth parents that same day! We connected on Facebook and talked for
a while to confirm that the match was accurate and it was! We are all very excited to get to know each other!
Wendy
Lone Tree, Colorado
Not only am I adopted‚ but so was my birth
mom! I have a 1/2 brother who was looking
for his mom's birth family while I was
searching for her, and we met here on Adopted.com.
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Tampa Bay, Florida
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