Click here for information on the Post Adoption Registry Starting to Search One of the first acts you should do before starting to search is consider joining a support group. The cost to join most groups is only a few dollars, a support group can provide information on how to search if you wish to search on your own. Most support groups have a contact person in many towns and areas in Alberta that can help answer many questions about searching. Support groups can provide the names of search agencies if you wish to pay for a search. For this reason it some times referred to as the triad.
Adoptees have their own way identifying family.
Note I do not know if the 1-800 number works in Canada. Click here if you do not see a support group in the area that you live in. The amount of information that an adoptee or a birth parent can get with out searching is quite limited. There is some information that an adoptee or a birth parent can get. For birth parents the amount of information is even more restricted than adoptees can access, the best advice for birth parents is to contact a support group even a adoptee support group can point you in the right direction.