Thanks for sending this. From the little I have read, however, it still seems to concern adoptees finding out about themselves, with a lot of concern for protecting privacy of the birth mother, etc. There is nothing about adoptees long dead whose mothers probably lived and died in the 19th century. Half my father's origins were closed to him as are a quarter of my siblings and mine. His mother was born about 1881 and taken into a family everyone believed was hers around 1884. Her mother was probably born around 1860 and had died by the time of Amy's move. The adoptive father legally adopted Amy in 1916 after the death of his wife because of probate problems. The 1916 record may not even give Amy's origins, but it is closed. Now, everyone concerned has been dead for 73 years or more. NY adoption records were closed in the 1930s or so, and no one ever seems concerned about making them open again although the closure must affect millions of descendants. Elizabeth On 7/29/2015 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: Message: 4 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:09:35 -0400 From:[email protected] Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] NYS Adoption and "UNSEALED INITIATIVE" To:[email protected],[email protected] Message-ID:<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 It appears that a rewrite of the original proposal is not satisfactory to the initiative. http://www.unsealedinitiative.org/

Many great points! It does not matter where you presently live. These other types of adoption issues need to be brought to the attention of decision makers. Several things you mention never entered my consciousness, so I feel certain they may escape the minds of those deciding. EX: I did not know sealed adoptions were retroactive until you spoke of it. On that site are links to politicos who vote. -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Knowlton via <[email protected]> To: nyc-roots <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 7:40 am Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] NY State Adoptions Thanks for sending this. From the little I have read, however, it still seems to concern adoptees finding out about themselves, with a lot of concern for protecting privacy of the birth mother, etc. There is nothing about adoptees long dead whose mothers probably lived and died in the 19th century. Half my father's origins were closed to him as are a quarter of my siblings and mine. His mother was born about 1881 and taken into a family everyone believed was hers around 1884. Her mother was probably born around 1860 and had died by the time of Amy's move. The adoptive father legally adopted Amy in 1916 after the death of his wife because of probate problems. The 1916 record may not even give Amy's origins, but it is closed. Now, everyone concerned has been dead for 73 years or more. NY adoption records were closed in the 1930s or so, and no one ever seems concerned about making them open again although the closure must affect millions of descendants. Elizabeth On 7/29/2015 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: Message: 4 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:09:35 -0400 From:[email protected] Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] NYS Adoption and "UNSEALED INITIATIVE" To:[email protected],[email protected] Message-ID:<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 It appears that a rewrite of the original proposal is not satisfactory to the initiative. http://www.unsealedinitiative.org/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message