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 My name is Colleen Buckner and I am The Search Guru. I am an adoptive mom that found my daughter's birth family in 1994. I am also an activist for open records. Since reuniting my daughter with her birth family I have reunited hundreds of other families separated by relinquishment and adoption.

I am very well known in California as a searcher. For several years I served as a support group facilitator and board member for an adoption community group in the Northern California area to promote legislation to open sealed adoption records and to provide face-to-face support group meetings for adoptees, birth relatives and adopted relatives.

As a member of an activist adoption network I picketed Vital Records in San Francisco to make a statement about how wrong it is to conceal original birth certificates from adopted people.  I have written many articles on search and reunion stories and searching techniques.


My daughter and I have also appeared on a San Francisco television morning news program to talk about adoption searches and reunions. My daughter's birthmother, myself and our daughter spoke several times to groups of pre-adoptive parents in the San Francisco Bay Area about an adult adoptee's need for search and reunion as an accepted part of the plan for parenting an adoptee. I am a member of AAC (American Adoption Congress) and the CGS (California Genealogical Society). For many years I was a site manager for the ISRR (International Soundex Reunion Registry) for their annual registration of people in the adoption community seeking biological family members. Currently I volunteer on the adoption.com website giving advice to those persons who are doing their own searches but need information on getting started gathering information from the “papertrail”.

The photo on this page is my daughter's birthmother, Cherie, on the left.
Our daughter, Carrie, is in the middle. I am on the right.
This picture was taken in our daughter's backyard in San Francisco.

 

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