14th Annual RegDay - Adoption Reunion - Farmingdale, NY September 17, 2008

Separated by adoption? Looking for a relative? Could a family member be looking for YOU?

RegDay is an annual event to increase public awareness of the International Soundex Reunion Registry; a free humanitarian service better known as ISRR. ISRR is a non-profit mutual consent registry dedicated to reuniting adult family members separated by adoption, divorce, or other dislocation.

For families separated by adoption who wish to search for lost kin, state laws permanently sealing adoption records can make it that much more difficult. Original birth certificates are even sealed in cases of step-parent adoption.

RegDay can be a source for information on a variety of records-access reform issues of interest to both the adoption and genealogy communities. Recent open records victories in Maine, New Hampshire, Alabama, and Oregon have helped to raise awareness of the need to make these personal government-held records available to those to whom they most intimately pertain.

With over 6 million adoptees in the U.S and countless other siblings, relatives, spouses, and friends affected, this topic is not only timely, but it is also universal.

Official Website: http://www.regday.org