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1. ABC: Amended Birth Certificate
2. AD: Adoptive Dad/Adad/Adoptee
3. AM: Adoptive Mom/Amom
4. ASIB: Adoptive sibling
5. BC: Birth Certificate
6. BD: Birth Daughter
7. BF: Birthfather/Birthfamily
8. BM: Birthmom/Bmom
9. BMA: Black Market Adoption
10. BN: Bastard Nation-Large Adoptees Rights advocate group
11. BS: Birth Son
12. BSIB: Birth sibling
13. CC: Catholic Charities--an agency that handled many adoptions
14. CI: Confidential Intermediary
15. CHS: Childrens Home Society
16. CW: Case Worker
17. DC: Death Certificate
18. DOB: Date of Birth
19. DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles
20. DNR: Do Not Remember
21. DSS: Department of Social Services
22. DVS: Department Of Vital Statistics
23. FCH: Florence Crittendon Home--where many birthmoms stayed while pregnant
24. FHC: Family History Center - an LDS library of genealogical information. (These places are FULL of information that could be helpful to searching adoptees! To find the FHC closest to you, go to www.lds.org, on Family History Resources, and follow the links. BTW, sometime in the VERY near future a lot of these records will be on-line!)
25. HSW: Happy Social Worker
26. IMO: In My Opinion
27. ISO: In Search Of
28. ISRR: International Soundex Reunion Registry
Get your registration form by sending a
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope to:
I.S.R.R.
P.O. Box 2312
Carson City, Nevada 89702-2312
29. KC: Kept Child
30. KD: Kept Daughter
31. KS: Kept Son
32. LBC: Long Form Birth Certificate
33. LDA: Late Discovery Adoptee - an adoptee who has discovered his adopted status past childhood.
34. LDS: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - the Mormon Church. (The LDS Family Search Online Services http://www.familysearch.org/ )
35. LOL: Laughing Out Loud
36 NAR: Not Adoption Related...supposed to be placed in the subject line on all NAR posts
37. Non-Id: Non-Identification/Non-Identifying info Go here for how to get yours...now for Free. http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/vr.htm (Siblings may register here too.) , or write to:
Adoption & Medical Information Registry
New York State Department of Health
P.O. Box 2602, Albany, N.Y. 12220-2602 --Or phone (518) 474-9600
38. OBC: Original Birth Certificate
39. Obit: Obituary announcement in newspaper(s)
40. OLV: Our Lady of Victory-well known adoption agency/home in Lackawanna, NY
41. PA: Private Adoption
42. PI: Private Investigator
43. POB: Place of Birth
44. ROFL: Rolling On the Floor Laughing (expression of laughing REALLY hard)
45. SS: Social Services/Social Security
46. SSA: Social Security Administration
47. SSDI: Social Security Death Index
48. SSN: Social Security Number
49. SW: Social Worker
50. TRIAD: An adoptee, birthparent or adoptive parent
51. VS: Vital Statistics
52. APAC--Adoptees' Political Action Coalition--local NY Adoptees Rights advocacy group--Fighting for Openness, Honesty and Integrity in Adoption
53. AAC-- America Adoption Congress -- large nationwide DC based advocacy reform group--promoting honesty, openness and respect for
family connections in public policy.
54. BTW: By the way