Internet Volunteers Track Down Birth Families

These people are meeting biological relatives for the first time - thanks to a group of volunteers. The Search Squad group on facebook has around 100 volunteer "search angels" who scour birth records and websites to find the birth relatives of adoptees. Many people who were adopted as children would like to meet their birth relatives, but it can often be an extremely expensive and time-consuming process. Search Squad, on the other hand, does it for free - and sometimes astonishingly quickly. In this documentary, we follow search squad search angel Susie Mathis as she explains how to find relatives over the internet, the tools they use to do so, and why she began volunteering. We also follow the journey of people searching for biological family members with the help of the search squad--and witness the powerful impact as people meet their birth relatives for the first time in their lives.
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[@freethink]

Thanks for watching! Remember to subscribe and share, and find the Search Squad group on facebook at facebook.com/groups/searchelpers/!

[@Yuselitaamorosa]

Min 2.14 is showing a ssn , check that part

[@briannacosta9730]

Wow I was adopted at 2 from Russia I’d love just to see a picture of my blood parents. Seeing these stories and seeing the joy of the children/ adults just makes me tear up

[@ciderlly]

wow, interesting. Hello from Russia!! :)

[@sprad539]

tripoloski xD

[@OsnoloVrach]

@@sprad539 Not funny.

[@sprad539]

@@OsnoloVrach i see what you did there, *KAREN*

[@OsnoloVrach]

@@sprad539 Let me guess, reddit good tiktok bad?

[@amysims4768]

Thank you Search Squad!! Y’all helped my son find me!!!!! Forever grateful

[@freethink]

Amazing! So glad to hear!

[@chellem4567]

I know both of my parents, but, can't even know how these people feel!! EVERYONE, deserves to know were they come from! EVERYONE!!

[@_____7512]

God bless this woman With her time down from her illness She still helps people ..

[@radbarzin9769]

7:22 you can hear their heartbeats! So sweet!

[@judygonzalez4280]

I just love stories like this! I never thought l would have a first cousin looking for us after 64 years! My uncle was never told and hope to meet him by the end of the month! We are all dying to meet! He deserves to know who gave him life, everyone does!

[@Emy53]

I can vouch for these Angel's, at Search Squad. They helped me find my nephew in 2015. They're the best. THANK YOU Search Squad.

[@deebee1653]

This is amazing i was about 16 when I found out that I had a brother that my mom had given up for adoption and the crazy thing is that I knew him for years but just didn't know we were brothers

[@macansan7046]

haha that is so crazy man and fcked up in the same time why would she give him away and keep u ?

[@deebee1653]

@@macansan7046 I'm not sure? y did she keep my other brother and sister as well my mom has passed now so I cant ask her but I do know my mom was rapped but wouldn't talk about it I'm assuming that's y my mom would have been 15 and it was her first child

[@macansan7046]

@@deebee1653 wow she went thru alot and im sorry im glad u reunited with ur brother and u have a sister i always wanted to have both :)

[@AXIOMATIC854]

I know a girl who just found her father after 49 years. He wasnt even aware of the pregnancy. I wish someone could document their reunion.

[@twinklefart69]

Okay but I’m crying 😭❤️

[@tiffanyzette7308]

Oh man he’s really handsome and manly! Love his voice. Congratulations for your sweet discovery.

[@candykanefpv]

I've always wondered about my bio family. Not so much parents, but everybody else. The possibility of another sibling, cousins and grandparents.

[@pizzaking2594]

Echo I hope you find what you are looking for 👍

[@dawnturner5206]

Same. I was fortunate to be adopted into a loving family as an infant, but 56 years later I continue to wonder. It's almost as if feel a little bit 'incomplete'.

[@jezebel324]

What can I do to get work like this? I’ll never meet the rest of my family, but getting others to theirs is...beautiful.

[@CCCCCCCCCCCmany]

jezebel324 I just helped my bf track his birth family. Trying to meet them is another story. Very hard

[@realpersonaltraining6007]

@@CCCCCCCCCCCmany that's the scary part...... What if I find her and she DOES NOT want to see me 🤔🤔 yep... I'd be f**ked up

[@alanoken3097]

Bless you, dear lady. I hope you are restored to full health to carry on with your fine work for decades to come.

[@catchinggates]

I needed this wholesome thing today. Wow. Thank you for changing lives!

[@user-fd6hi6vd5h]

I usually don’t Tear up but Think about if you were in their shoes and you met your brother or sister for the first time in 40+ years😢

[@freethink]

Crazy to think. Really puts the moments into perspective.

[@byxyz1206]

I wish I could also be part of some Noble work.

[@freethink]

It's a volunteer group, so you are welcome to join! facebook.com/groups/searchelpers

[@debbiee6535]

Thank you for being the angels that helps answer the questions for these people

[@antoniofroio8348]

2:10 "Wooster, MA" 😂😂 its Worcester

[@Whoeverhitme]

Hahahahahahahaha I'm a Massachusetts man too

[@charlottebrunner8018]

I just clicked on a ad . .

[@ford.5311]

lol i feel you man

[@childeater4225]

Same.

[@freethink]

We forgive you :)

[@charlottebrunner8018]

Freethink thanks .. hehe I didn’t think you would respond

[@billygomez5138]

I have a half brother from my mothers side that I have never met. I'm 45 yrs old now and my mother was diagnosed with Dementia, I wanted to know if you could help my family find my brother before my mother forgets her whole life please?. Thank you in advanced.

[@wmaster3603]

This is so wholesome, I just can't.

[@cr3363]

Happy tears after watching this video, hopefully some day i can connect my mother with her birth father. The 60's where a different time where the father was not given the option to raise as easy as now a days. As far as she was told he wanted her but her mother was forced to give my mom up for adoption. She has since reconnected with her mother, my grandmother, they look like twins! LOL I hope my other grandfather is around still but hopefully either we get closure for my mom.

[@TrishDigginsDesign]

I started with ancestry.

[@kenpearce3269]

Beautiful... angels do exist!

[@Shjmkhs]

But they aren't earthly beings...

[@awl1116]

That group is amazing

[@bukon90]

Great work guys.

[@freethink]

Thanks for watching!

[@Bryanagrace]

Damn this makes me tear up. I was adopted from Kazakhstan when I was 3 and I’d love to meet them one day.

[@richardbrown2348]

That is really awesome what you do, keep up the great work

[@darrontaylor1921]

Bless this woman's heart 💜❤

[@heihowl]

Did dis chick actually just sent a sad face after telling someone "She died" XD wtf i dont like that this is how our language is being transformed

[@tiat3137]

I disagree. Sometimes you just don't have the words. And expressing sympathy to someone is really difficult.

[@hunty8594]

@@tiat3137 using emoji's just seems cliche and less serious. "my brother is missing :(". that just looks horrible tbh.

[@GoodGamer3000]

Yeah, it seemed a little blunt to me, and the emoji didn't help.

[@joycewilliamson4106]

Amen

[@afrothunder2401]

Why im I cutting onions while watching this?!

[@Appachoppa112]

Being separated from family is real fucked up

[@tracylynn1461]

God bless these folks.. they certainly have earned the name of ANGELS ♡ I know the kindness of an angel completed my story and gave me the answers I so needed to be whole again♡

[@pheniks0]

yay for people like you, i love these kinds of videos

[@sagegarden5310]

Hi Angels , my case is a very hard one. I am a white male age 53 born here in Chicago. Raised by a single mom. My mom was age 15 when she met my birth dad at a college dorm party. She got pregnant, only saw him that one night in 1955 n that's all we know. I recently did a ancestry DNA test n found some cousins that must be on his side but no matches. I'm a happy person but it does bother me so much not knowing where he is, if I have siblings etc. Thanks for listening.

[@daphnerodriguez9980]

POWERFUL AMAZING! ALWAYS DAPHNE COTTON 💜.♥️🖤💚BROWN FAMILY. THANKS YOU ⚘.

[@jennakaufman4471]

I have a half sibling who I’ve never met and who I’d love to know

[@kattx1987]

I was put up for adoption in 1990 and have been trying to find my biological brother for some time with no luck. I feel like there's a hole in me that I can't fill. I always wonder if he's ok. I didn't care about the situation much when I was young. Actually didn't care at all but as I've gotten older..

[@knightninja8714]

How's the search going so far?

[@marilynnesmith8778]

Now.....Why am I crying?

[@LindaPow]

Excellent and a sure rewarding job........

[@JessieMarieD]

Me clicking on the video: oh this looks interesting Me 5 minutes in: 😭😭😭😭

[@shyboi9213]

I'm sorry my real name is kara O'Hare and I'm looking for my boigical father and I changed my name to Blake O'Hare because I'm transgender and my real father his name was Michael or micheal ohare and my father married a women named welna Willis and she adopted my two brothers named kc and kyle and I would love to know how they are doing and I have not seen my other two sisters in years there names are Katherine and Kimberly and I have been trying to get information from my mom and she also told me my biogical father was in the military but he got kicked out of the military because of his disability and I'm not sure if this is true or not and he lives in new York city and I was born January 15,2002 and I have two more siblings but they live with us and there names are Kelly O'Hare and Kenny O'Hare and I'm just trying to find information's about who I really am and people are telling me that I was adopted if there is anyone who can try to help me plz message me on here and I have other siblings that I have never met before because of my dads side and I never met my dad before but I would love to meet him one day and I'm 17 years old now and my sister is 18 and my brother is 15

[@kingvt817]

you might wanna contact them instead

[@gauntlet___]

Um this is KZbin? Your not gonna find what your looking for here. Best wishes good luck my friend

[@Shjmkhs]

No point in saying that here. Contact Search Squad.

[@shyboi9213]

@@Shjmkhs ok

[@shyboi9213]

@@kingvt817 ok

[@cacklepop9953]

My dad was adopted at 6 months old during 1965, his adopted parents were terrible people and he was adopted from a Private Adoption Clinic. He wanted to find his Birth Parents but died when I was 11 and I'd like to at least know who they might have been. Can't even find his Birth or Adoption Papers :/

[@BadBoyBobby85]

H'all come they never show the reunions where one gets punched in the face?

[@Shjmkhs]

How* Lmao though.

[@CCCCCCCCCCCmany]

😳

[@hunty8594]

calm down robert

[@joycewilliamson4106]

In my prays

[@macansan7046]

yea i was thinking the same thing they all were living like a family but they left their son to another family...

[@sunflawa]

Just here crying

[@seleciabrowning3497]

I had a boy in 94 I was young at home my moma was sick has mental problems said u can't come home with baby so I was scard did not no what to do my nerves tore up so crying my eyes out I signed papers not knowing later I regretted it whole life not being a part my sons life I would love meet him and talk to him

[@masira8158]

I hope you find him 💙💙

[@chloecole2274]

I clicked on an ad,😂😂. I didn’t know they were where I live 😁😁😁😁

[@Shjmkhs]

Ads are everywhere.

[@FirstNameLastName000]

This is beautiful

[@jonathoncardwell6786]

Apparently people don't know about adopted people. I was adopted in 1975 and people exploiting me keep carrying on who exploit my identity every day. I had adults try to get my original birth certificate in 2019. Illegally. On a closed adoption. There are some people that are so deluded that they don't believe I could have children with other women before I met my ex wife in 2006. There were never any women between 2006-2019 besides my ex wife. I met her when I was 33. People are so deluded they think I couldn't have birth relatives now that I can search for them. For some reason I am being obstructed from Alabama from contacting north Carolina to find my history.

[@freddysorangepill8123]

I finally felt home.. ungrateful grown man...

[@beatrizviacava-goulet3450]

GEN MATCH ...

[@bigyoshi411]

very nice

[@alinaarachnaphobic]

"I WASNT EXPECTED, I WAS SELECTED" :''''''''C IM NOT CRYING YOURE FUCKIN CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[@LexitaMai]

Am I the only one who never really cared about my birth family? Idk why, since I guess it should be important, but it's just never seemed that way to me. I think of my birth family as some distant relatives who I don't really need to meet, since I have my adoptive family that just kind of became my "real" family. Is that just because I was placed in a home with a good connection, do you think?

[@minorcek]

That is your real family. When someone adopts you they raise you as their own and so you are their real daughter

[@kathleen5076]

My adopted brother is looking for his family but has no information he was born in the 60s and apparently left at a nunnery he has no name and we are pretty sure his birthday is unknown he has done DNA on several sights with out finding anyone. Any suggestions where he looks from a place with no information?

[@tracylynn1461]

Have you had a search angel look at the DNA matches? Genetic genaology can help solve the mystery if the DNA test is done ♡

[@pal3800]

25 yrs im waiting dreaming to see my babys again VICTOR AND MELISSA TWINS

[@jennifercooper3547]

With the upmost respect to everyone on here, please be careful what you search for and what you wish for, as not everyone, though blood related, may not have the same heart as you. Where you may be welcoming and open, you may find them to be closed off and downright abusive, hate stalking, instances of hacking and trolling, slandering and overstepping their boundaries. Please weigh your options carefully in order to potentially avoid anyone else’s issues that you did not knowingly subscribe to. Ancestral trauma is very real and you must be careful to not unknowingly attract a scapegoat scenario. I choose to be transparent in hopes that it can help one person. God Bless🙏

[@mariebelle3493]

What a cute baby!❤😩😭

[@princerell1755]

I need help finding my brother who was adopted in 1989

[@stephengreenwade9225]

Please help me, I'm lost without my son.

[@dakotahstr]

Im adopted. found my birth mother now looking for my birth father. he was a cook at the army base up here in /canada and she was a waitress, He was Greek and she was German. would the base give out that info, He was a civilian cook.

[@johnwestfall2353]

I am searching for my biological dad, it's an empty feeling not knowing

[@lilbitofsouthernspirit7788]

My siblings & I were all separated at young ages. We have all but 1 found eachother. We don't know how to find the only brother we have. He & I are the 2 siblings that have the same Father.

[@freethink]

That's impressive most of you have found each other. If you'd like to see if search squad can help, try facebook.com/groups/searchelpers/ .

[@teresarogers9739]

Awesome 💜💜

[@EugeniaBonucci1965]

Thats so nice

[@bibi_bear]

Iam sitting on a toilet and crying 😭😭😭😭😭wtf.😭😭😭😭😭 I love this 😢❤

[@coffeebean_]

I love this

[@teresafisher6732]

How can I find my daughter givin up for adoption in 1976 in TN

[@clixfn8001]

Teresa Fisher if u have Facebook and have some information please type in f book adoption uk and a search angel will help you 😊

[@MichelleLuvn25]

Lovely story but the music is dreadful

[@joycewilliamson4106]

I would love to find my 2 grandchildren Veronca Monca

[@margaretmcguire9429]

My husband was adopted when he was a child from the Philippines could you help us find his parents or family members

[@freethink]

You can ask them at facebook.com/groups/searchelpers/!

[@TheStreetfish]

2:10 me looking at my phone XD

[@TrishDigginsDesign]

I wish I could turn the music down. No- off.

[@sherryking7054]

Oh please I'm begging for help to find my sister, we all went to foster care and she didn't return 😢😔. She was adopted out. Please if anyone can help.I have paid Omni trace but nothing has happened 😔. I just want her to know that her mother cried every day for her, until her death. Norma jo you are and were loved so much.

[@fatimak1382]

Karen Jane Bell looking for my brother Nicholas Andrew Nigel Jackson .he was born in London but was taken to Australia by his adoptive parents they were from London.

[@bobross5143]

5:45 I don't know why, but she kind of looks like the mom from home alone

[@hockeyfan7189]

I don’t feel like talking.. I found out my mom died at age 36... My dad ran away And my sister... Is not my sister, I have to watch this video to understand...

[@ropemaxxing968]

Your loss is our sauce

[@cookieumbriaco2009]

I would like help finding my son that cps put up for adoption!

[@sahilbaidwan5958]

No you’re crying

[@fatimak1382]

Ellen (Helen) Jackson's family looking for her child,

[@tylerwagner5604]

Wish I knew who my real dad was 🤷🏻‍♂️😪

[@freethink]

Sorry, hope you find out someday.

[@richardlighthouse5328]

Only if someone made tool for that.

[@mndplg]

Beautiful. But they talk about privacy, yet they operate off of Facebook.. 😕

[@gayetannenbaum9079]

Details on living people are shared between searcher and search angel via PM or email or phone. It's never done on group.

[@KingRex_121]

You are not the father

[@therussianplaguedoctor8248]

It's funny but messed up at the same time 😂👌

[@pal3800]

Im looking dreaming for my twins 25 yrs VICTOR AND MELISSA

[@MsJinkerson]

I wish I never have gotten to meet my mother they say let sleeping dogs lay that is the one time I should have listened

[@lanacooper2086]

What about finding parents in russia and brothers and sisters.

[@jonathoncardwell6786]

I was about to post about finding my birth family that was lead into violence by crazy people that were co workers of mine or sexual associates of rob cardwell or people exploiting and threatening people on you tube.

[@Bob-hi2xh]

Hackerman!

[@fatimak1382]

,Nicholas Jackson adopted in Chertsey, by Turner family, Karen Jane your sister is looking for you,

[@jitaamesuluma9730]

let me tell you why we do dna , why we do tracing of family , SOMEWHERE TO BELONG

[@jitaamesuluma9730]

MY PARENTS WERE CRAP, BOTH SETS , BUT NOW I HAVE ANSWERS

[@Shjmkhs]

What the heck.

[@sophresh5077]

nawww

[@ghostassassin2818]

Why would you want to meet some people when they abandoned you

[@chloecole2274]

ghost assassin some people don’t have a choice but to give their child up. You never know someone’s situation.

[@knightninja8714]

Answers?

[@Versacemilkshake]

Ever heard of forgiveness

[@waynewilke781]

Susie Mathis, ck your email. Thanks.