Through these pages, I hope to tell the story of the Ideal Maternity Home, it's survivors and their stories, and their search for their biological families and heritage. This web page will be under ongoing construction, and as new survivors, and birth families are located, their information will be added. Any adoptee, or member of a birth family connected with the Ideal Maternity Home are invited, and encouraged to register and share their information on this site. Part of the process for planning an event such as this involving so many diverse people is trying to take into consideration the various needs of those involved and what people are looking for or hoping to find when they come together. We, the Homecoming Committee, have to consider the differences in religious views, the emotions involved, and where people are in the process of search and reunion.
Family is different things to different people.
Family can be birth family, adoptive family, the family that we have formed as adults, or as with many who have come together with the Survivors Group, the Family of Common bond and Friendship. We will first and foremost, come together to be supportive of each other. We will continue to fine tune things and keep you informed with at least one more newsletter update prior to the event. Following the Celebration of Family, we will ask all Survivors to meet in the Regency Ballroom for the Homecoming Photo . Indication of interest must be received by May 15th in order to make arrangements.