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Topics to be Discussed
(Time Permitting)
Tracing Your Family’s History
--Where do you begin?
--Video of a Family Tree
--Non-cooperative family members
--Websites, magazines, books
--Genealogical societies
--Daughters of the American Revolution
--Genealogy seminars
--Teaching Children/Grandchildren genealogy
--Libraries
--Passed Down Family Recipes
--Photographs
--Native American searches
National Adoption Awareness Month
--So you want to adopt a child?
--Who should, who can adopt?
--Black Market Adoptions
--Transracial adoptions
--Costs associated
--What will the child go through with their peers
--When to tell the child he/she was adopted
--When/should the adoptee search for birth parents
--When/should the birth parent search for the adoptee
--What to expect when that first phone call is made
--How do you begin a search without a name to search for?
--Amended birth certificates
--Changing laws - how to help
--Books, magazines, websites
--Baby Abandonment Laws
Military Searches
--Where do you begin?
--How do you find DD-214 forms?
--Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
--Returning military items to families
--Military Brats
--American Legion, VFW, WAVES, etc. organizations
--Books, magazines, websites
Seeking Beneficiaries
--Could you be a beneficiary and not know it?
--State Treasury Department
-Insurance Policies you never knew about
-Safe Deposit Boxes
-Bank accounts
-Last paycheck
-Bank Deposits
-Warehouses/storage facilities
-Wines, boats, planes, antiques
-How to find out if you are named
--Insurance Policies/paid up policies
--HUD Insurance proceeds
--Federal monies - i.e., $50,000 life policies on soldiers
--99 year old people
--Be aware of ‘Cadivar’ private investigators
--Get your own affairs in order


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