Adults adopted in childhood often face a heightened susceptibility to psychological and behavioral challenges compared with their non-adopted peers. Scholars examining this phenomenon associate various factors, including an adoptee’s sense of self as an individual within a complex adoption background. This qualitative study utilized a material engagement theory to explore…
The NYC Historical Vital Records Project The New York City Municipal Archives is undertaking a mass digitization project to provide online access to 13.3 million historical birth, death, and marriage records. This collection consists of historical vital records created and/or maintained by the City of New York, and historical vital…
Soon the Missouri birth index, 1920-2015, and the Missouri death index, 1968-2015 will be available to the public online and free. Thanks to the dedicated staff at the non profit, Reclaim The Records, which had to sue the State of Missouri in order to obtain these public records. One has…
