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  2. Jean M. Paton - Wikipedia

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    Jean M. Paton (1908 – 2002) was an American adoptee rights activist who worked to reverse harmful policies, practices, and laws concerning adoption and closed records. Paton founded the adoptee support and search network Orphan Voyage in 1953, helping connect adoptees with their birthparents, and was instrumental in the creation of the ...

  3. Closed adoption - Wikipedia

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    In 1917, Minnesota was the first U.S. state to pass an adoption confidentiality and sealed records law. [1] Within the next few decades, most United States states and Canadian provinces had a similar law.

  4. List of genealogy databases - Wikipedia

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    Aggregated search system and genealogy databases, claims to have over 20 billion records. National Archives of Ireland: The official repository for the state records of Ireland including census records, wills and administrations, plus other genealogy records New England Historic Genealogical Society

  5. FamilySearch Indexing - Wikipedia

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    FamilySearch Indexing is a volunteer project established and run by FamilySearch, a genealogy organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The project aims to create searchable digital indexes of scanned images of historical documents that are relevant to genealogy.

  6. Sealed birth records - Wikipedia

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    While Minnesota was the first state in 1917 to seal and make court adoption records unavailable to the public, [1] in 1935 California became the first state to seal and make an adoptee's original birth record unavailable except by court order. [2]

  7. Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. (born October 3, 1937) is an American psychologist known for his behavioral genetics studies of twins raised apart. He is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Adoption Research at the University of Minnesota.