Professional Search
Resources
This list is
provided for information purposes only. PACER does
not endorse any particular search service. Before
you hire anyone, please be sure to ask about:
- Fees
charged,
- Services
to be provided,
- Refund
policy for “no find” searches,
- Contact
procedures and policies, and
- References.
Umbrella
organizations are listed at the top. Specific
resources are
listed in alphabetical order.
- Search
Finders of California, San Jose, CA
(408) 356-6711,
www.searchfinders.org
Search/support group meetings held the second
Thursday of every month.
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Independent Search Consultants, P.O. Box
10192, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
www.iscsearch.org,
www.ischawall.org
Referrals to [fee-based] certified search
consultants.
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Adoptee-Birthparent Connections, CA
Tina Peddie, (805) 929-2930,
tpeddie@charter.net
Specialty: California adoptions (out-of-CA, if
name known). 20 years experience assisting with
initial contact (glad to help, even if she has
not conducted the search). Fee based, some
expenses only.
- Martin
Brandfon, 620 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City,
CA 94063
(650) 366-6789,
mbrandfon@earthlink.net
(Not a searcher) - will provide legal advice and
services related to adoption, searches, court
petitions for access to birth and adoption
records, adult adoptions and name changes. (Fee;
no fee or advice given out on the web - please
call) . “Please call between 3-5 pm Mon- Fri for
search info.”
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California "No Find No Fee" Adoption Searches
Colleen Buckner
Toll Free (877) 741-4115
www.adoptionsearchcalifornia.com
thesearchguru@adoptionsearchcalifornia.com
- Delayn
Curtis, 721 Cedar Dr., Watsonville, CA 95076
(831) 724-1034,
delayncurtis@juno.com
Specialty: California. (Out of pocket expenses
only.)
- Steve
Felix, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
(310) 548-0335,
CaSearcher@aol.com,
SteveFelix@bigfoot.com.
Specialty: California. (Fee-based)
- Chris
Lee at Kinsolving Investigations,
P.O. Box 1917, Matthews, N.C. 28106
(704) 537-5919,
mzchrislee@aol.com,
www.kinsolving.com
(Fee-based)
- Joe
Soll at Adoption Crossroads, 444 East
74th Street, New York, NY 10021
(212) 988-0110 or 74 Lakewood Drive, Congers, NY
10920, (845) 268-0283
cera@idt.net,
joesoll@earthlink.net,
joeshrink@earthlink.net,
www.AdoptionCrossroads.org
Support/Search Groups, Fee Searches
- Other
Search Resources:
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California State Library, 900 N. St., Rm.
200, Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 654-0176
- CA
marriage and death indices
- All
CA newspapers
- CA
city directories and phone books
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Social Security death index for US.
- Sutro
Library, 480 Winston Dr., San Francisco, CA,
(415) 731-4477
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Internet Search Resources:
www.RegDay.org Resources Page
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