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Stephanie Curtright (SC) & (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 2-1-2007
Stephanie, lost her fight with cancer on 8-13-2011. She will be missed by us all very much at G'S.
Stephanie Curtright was a G'S Search Angel she started with G'S 2-1-2007 All USA then she got breast cancer and started helping Gary behind the scenes with fixing forms and making calls on updates and helping with pages on our site like search angel rules page, Gary's history page and some of the Search Angel Advice pages are just as a few. Plus she worked on solving Gary's wife Danna's birth brothers search. She helped Gary through many very bad times in his life by being there for him on chat or by phone. So because of all she has done for G'S and Gary we have added her name at top of Our site.
(Deceased)
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Emily (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 2-23-2007
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Doreen Fincher (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 2-27-2007
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Karen Defoe (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005 till 12-21-2010
(Deceased)
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Connie Rhea Nelson (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005.
I have been in the searching arena for about l4 years
learning from one of your best, Donna Wells.
She was the first one I met on line and we've been working together for a very long time.
I live in Aurora, OR and volunteer whenever and wherever I can.
I think all of us search angels are the hardest working folks
for no fee and it's a joy to be a part of this group.
I do work full time at Reed College in Portland.
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Michelle Gross (SA) & (SC)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 4-6-2004
I have been a member of FloridaSearchAngels since 2001.
Prior to that I had assisted where I could beginning around 1997.
I got into adoption search in 1995
when I learned I had a sister three years older than myself who was placed for adoption;
plus I started searching for my husband's birth son about that same time.
It was through the help of search angels that I was able to locate my sister and my husband's son
and by that time I was hooked on helping others. Michelle
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Wanda Fischer (SA) & (SC)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 4-6-2004
Co-Owner adoptioncafe@yahoogroups.com Retired from G'S on 11-25-2008
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Simone Keevert (SA) & (SC)
Is the Editor of ((The-Seeker.com)) & a long time searcher. (retired)
Simone will help in cases of emergency from time to time. She co-hosted The-Seeker's world-wide radio show for many years and has been involved with a few television programs reuniting people. She is a reunited adoptee. Although retired, Simone is still part of an infamous group of searchers known as "The Team", as well as being on board with EMLA when needed. Simone has had several articles written about her search as well as her successes with searching. She is very involved in her community and has spearheaded a lot of fundraising efforts to help those in need. She has received other awards and has been acknowledged all around the globe for her Randon Acts of Kindness.
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Ed McCullough (MrKeene) (SC)
Ed's our man in Minnesota he helps us with the things we need to do these searches.
Helps us with the hard to find ones too. He's been a free searcher a long time.
He's the one we turn to, when we need a little extra help doing searches.
also a member of EMLA ! ........ his saying is: "Never a charge to find a lost loved one" !!
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Carol Cielecki (SA) & (SC)
is a member of the DoeNetWork.org,
helps identify dead bodies & has been a member of our team from the begining.
She's real good at searching.
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Ms Jazzy (SC)
Does our California microfiche that we don't have.
She's been at this for many years. Helps EMLA too!
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Nancy Peuraharju (SA) & (SC)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005.
I am a birth mother that searched for and found my birth son in 2001.
Afterwards I wanted to help others in the same way as so many angels helped me with my search.
I have been a search angel ever since - it's in the blood! :)
I am also co-owner/founder of www.Adoption-Free-Search.org (EMLA).
Adoption-Free-Search/EMLA conducts free biological searches
for those who are in need of their family medical histories.
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Donna Wells (SA) & (SC)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 6-6-2004.
Started doing searches with Oregon Adoption Rights Assoc in Portland Oregon about 1993.!
Soon after EMLA and AFS. Also NWASR (WA.OR, ID, MT, UT, CA)
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Chrisina (Chrissy) Denbaugh (SC)
she is the original founder of www.Adoption-Free-Search.org (EMLA).
Adoption-Free-Search/EMLA conducts free biological searches
for those who are in need of their family medical histories.
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Shelle Robison (SA) & (SC)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 12-10-2005
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Ruthann H (SA) & (SC)
Joined EMLA about 5 years ago.
She has handled 2 major fundraising projects for EMLA.
Helped with putting together EMLA's cookbooks & is working on G'S first cookbook.
She does other searches typically on a referral basis. -
Joined EMLA 6-?-2004 has been SA's for long before she joined EMLA.
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Louise Brawley (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005
Long time searching for 2 step children served to fuel the already burning desire that I had due to my own personal 30 year search. Actually it was more of an "I owe" thing to my then husband as he had finalized my search the old fashioned way years prior, and I wanted to be able to thank him by finding his children for him. That was in very late 1990's for his son and 2001 for his daughter. And as we all know; this searching is very addicting and I'm still here!! A little older, a little slower; but still just as interested in the "hunt".
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Danna Schaefer (SC) & (SA)
Co founder of G'S Adoption Registry
formally G Spot United States Adoption Registry & G S United States Adoption Registry
helped with registy for over 8 years (Deceased)
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Ari Wagner Leahy - (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 12-2-2007
Joined EMLA 6-?-2004 has been SA's for long before she joined EMLA
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Pam Kish (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-8-2006
She has been SA's for long before she joined G'S Adoption Registry
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Martha (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005
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Ilona O (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 10-10-2004
I started to become a search angel: In ?-?-1999 by accident I found a website with postings where people posted searches for old friends an relatives in Germany. I started to send them the link to the German phonebook, later I started to search in the phonebook by myself and sent them the results, and a while later I started to call people they searched. But I learned that my most empathy was with the adoptees. So I decided to help them as much as I could. I started to search for websites of postings from adoptees, and found G'S Adoption Registry on 10-10-2004. I still have a fulltime job, so my time is limited, but still love to help and search and reunite people. In all those years I could help reunite about 300 to 400 people, and I am proud of it. A lot of the adoptees became my friends, and now help me in my searches, too.
Hugs, Ilona
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Sharon (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 12-1-2003
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Patti Carter (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 12-31-2002
first Search Angel for All States.
I joined as a search angel because health issues forced me to retire early.
I had my own business for 20 years finding people and decided it was time to be a volunteer
somewhere helping others do not remember how I found this site but it was
"love at first site" and I was hooked. Patti
Retired from G'S on 1-4-2009
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Vivian (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 12-31-2002
first Search Angel for Ohio.
I have been on the net since about 2000 but have over 20 years experience
doing Adoptee searches. Started doing them when I had to travel to find people.
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Bob Crowter (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005
Has been doing family member & adoption searches for 10 years
ever since he was given an old Windows 95 computer.
he couldn't find any other use for it .......till he started doing this stuff.
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Kristin Sullivan (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-8-2006.
My first big find was my grandson who was given up to adoption in 1981. After a bout with breast cancer, I needed to know about this young man. I always felt an emptiness in my heart for never knowing him, and wondering if he was having a good life with good adoptive parents. After I managed to find his birth mother, a young woman I had never known, I started out finding Matthew. It was one of the most wonderful days of my life when I realized I had finally found him, and would get to see and speak to him. Matthew today is getting his doctorate at the University of Lousiana. He will be a professor of english when he is finished. I'm very proud of him. I must give credit to my mentor angel whose name is Starr . . she got me started with just a few free sites, and she sent me on my way. She had enough confidence in me to cut me loose. Starr thought I was a natural at it. The wonderful feeling of accomplishment when I complete a search is so rewarding to me. I feel that everytime I make an adoptee or their birth family happy, God is smiling on me, and blessing me and my family. I've been a search angel for about four years now.
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Patty Drabing (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 12-4-2003
Adoptee turned Search Angel that searched & found in 2002. A special thank you to Pam Kish, Babbs, Linda & Soaring Angels for turning me from a very confused KY adoptee to an adoptee marked ((FOUND)) & for introducing me to a whole new cyber world. After my search was marked found, I asked Pam to teach me everything she knows about being a Search Angel. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it hadn’t been for her extreme patience & guidance as she took me under her wings until I earned my own. Another special thank you also goes out to Gary & Danna Schaefer from G’S for giving me a source from which to help others that are where I used to be. I’ve been a proud member of G’S Search Angel team since 2003 & I’m also a member of several yahoo adoption search & reunion groups as well as a member of ((EMLA)). I’ve made some very dear friends since I became a Search Angel & they are too many to mention but they know who they are.
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Heather MacPherson (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 8-7-2005
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Denise Bjorholm (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site 4-2-2005
has been a search angel since 2004
I love doing Iowa searches because you are mostly working without a name
It's like a big puzzle and very rewarding when it's complete
I am also a member of EMLA
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Margaret Kuni (SA)
Joined G'S Adoption Registry site about 9-24-2007
I became a Search Angel by helping my husband find his birth family in 2001 and have loved the search process ever since. I specialize in VA, OH, WA (plus a lot of places) and also with military related and older searches that use my genealogy skills. My wish is that everyone is given the opportunity to know who they are and where they came from and to be able to get their family medical history.
Take Care, Margaret
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